Gates with Thresholds to Nowhere

The newest curb cut makes the garden entrance more inviting.

It was a delightful long weekend spent working on the new garden. The three gates to nowhere got concrete brick thresholds so they shut and seal along the bottoms, the last two post holes were dug and the posts embedded in concrete.

My favorite work was Saturday. Three concrete blocks were chiseled out of the driveway curb, and irrigation water lines and landscape electricity lines re-routed to make way. Digging two trenches resulted in relocated sprinklers for the oleander and a new, strategically located garden faucet -- my seventh.


Then two blocks were set facing inwards, paving bricks laid, a step to nowhere created, stucco repaired and painted, and some decorative Mexican tiles glued. I'm beginning to like Liquid Nails a lot.


The gates still go nowhere because we have to finish stringing the aviary wire. Although the gate frames seal well, there's nothing to keep javelins and varmints from feasting on the salad buffet.

Soon enough, the wire will be stretched, stapled and nailed, another two-foot wire stretched along the ground as an apron, then covered with dirt, and the gates will be finished.

Meanwhile, one Texas purple sage bush went bonkers from watering. It's amazing how much desert plants thrive on weekly watering. Plastic PVC pipes trenched and buried all over the place give me seven garden faucets from which yours truly enjoys hand watering each weekend. I need one more, down in Coat Hanger Valley.