Lily asks: A friend of mine says she is going to build a wattle fence around a small vegetable garden. Rather than appear unworldly, I didn't ask her for a description of this wattle fence. What is a ...

fences were made from what you found. Rocky areas are still crisscrossed by stone walls that kept early settlers' livestock in and critters out. To build fences in timber country, logs were split into ...

A gardener presses a willow branch down after weaving it through sticks planted in the ground. Joel Wintermantle Chicago Tribune Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you ...

Gardeners often end up with a pile of brush after summer (or winter) pruning and then haul it away to the clean-green dump, cut it up in pieces no longer than 4 feet for neighborhood yard-waste ...

Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you found. Rocky areas are still crisscrossed by stone walls that kept early settlers’ livestock in and critters out. To build ...