The garden has a gate!

Yesterday marked my second day off of work with the sole purpose of getting things done around the house.  We have no shortage of projects we're trying to get knocked out.  The main three, though, are to get the side garden going, get the front garden finished, and to rebuild the pool deck and re-landscape that whole area (technically a two-part project).

Since I'd nearly completed the first cut of the front garden on Tuesday, I went after the side garden again.  On Tuesday I re-sunk the left side post for the garden gate.  Somehow (I have theories), when I sunk it it didn't end up vertical.  Seeing how much other work I have ahead of me, I didn't make it completely perfect -- the gap is now only 1" wider than at the top instead of how far off it was beforehand -- but it's a lot better than it was.  The "perfect" option would have added a few more hours of work to the task.

To stiffen up the entryway, I mounted a 2x4 above the door and a 2x6 below the door.  I left the 2x6 about 2" above the ground level to account for the mulch I'll be applying inside the doorway.  Unfortunately, because the ground is sloped, the threshold 2x6 looks a bit odd.  The door is made of 2x4's with heavy-duty brackets at the exterior corners and smaller L-shaped brackets at the middle support. 

Still to do:

• Roto-till the composted area so we can finally plant stuff.
• Mount the handles, a latch, and fencing material to the gate.
• Mount 1x6's at the top of the wire fence (4' above the ground) and a few inches above the ground.  They will help stiffen the posts to correct some minor leaning, add strength to the fence, and to improve the look since Wifey wants it to be pretty.
• Add a few more cubic yards of compost to the rest of the garden.
• Install the second primary path.

In retrospect, I wish I'd done this earlier since I'm two weeks behind schedule of when I wanted to get vegetable plants in the ground.