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I'm sure that the weeds would eventually prevail but I am very happy they have been conquered for at least 6 weeks now. Once the pumpkins grow over the top of the straw I am sure the weeds will also appear again.
As for the fences, yes we do have some variety.
This is the original fence around the house. I had some 2m posts made with 5mm rebar inside instead of the crappy little steel they usually use in cement posts. Barbed wire at 200mm centres. Just wanted to stop people and dogs.
However like everything there are changes to the rules in that now the missus wants to keep out chickens so you can see the additional mesh and tin to block the bottom. It doesn't really work as the dogs push their way through the mesh (and scratch their back at the same time on the barbed wire) and then the chickens just find the hole made by the dogs. When we chase the chickens out of the yard they just take flight straight over the top of the fence.
The MIL uses this string mesh and it seems to work quite well.
The shade cloth that has been left on the ends of the shade house works well but I have to be careful when I am using the weed-wacker there so as to not cut it up. I have a wire down at the bottom which I tie the shade cloth to.
When I took the shade cloth off the end of the shade house I needed something so I used this plastic fencing and while it is good in that it doesn't rust it does "tear" as shown when it is put under tension. I ended up threading a wire along the top and bottom.
The chickens haven't yet learned to fly over this plastic fence but they did quite quickly learn to go under it where I left space for the water drain. As shown I had to make a stick fence in the drain to stop them.
This fence is the first one I made for the garden to keep the chickens out but they soon learnt to jump/fly up onto the cement posts and then jump into the garden. Not so dumb chickens.
I have tried to show the main problem with this steel fence in that the wire is very thin and rusts out very quickly. It also breaks and if I forget when I am handling it I get "pricked" a lot by the fine wire. Its like getting stuck by a pin lots of times. I will never buy this crap again.
Finally this is the best "fence" the front wall keeps everything out.
If I were to build a new house fence at the back I would use the same 2m posts but put the chain mesh wire along it and bury the bottom 150mm into concrete.
Below is the wire mesh I would use. Same as what we have on our back gate.
Cheers