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 ...

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 ...

The basic structure of a wattle fence is a line of posts stuck in the ground and withies woven in and out. Barbara Damrosch - The Washington Post Back when everything came from the land, fences were ...

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 ...