{"id":38599,"date":"2014-10-26T02:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=38599"},"modified":"2014-12-07T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T12:30:12","slug":"weaving-a-nature-wall-helps-me-connect-to-my-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/weaving-a-nature-wall-helps-me-connect-to-my-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving a nature wall helps me connect to my land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing projects in my yard make me really feel connected to the Earth and to my homestead.\u00a0 Yesterday afternoon I created a natural wall at the entrance to my east property.\u00a0 After the tree cutters brought their machine through last month, a path could be seen from the street. I didn’t want anyone walking down it and into my yard, so I used bamboo stalks, grapevine, potato vine and oak branch deadfall to weave a natural privacy wall. I don’t prune the wild grapevines here until I’m ready to use them. I move them out of the way and route them along shepherd’s hooks to let them grow long.\u00a0 I wanted the wall to look very natural and random so if someone glanced in from the street, it would look uninteresting and uninviting.\u00a0 I began by placing several 12-20 foot long cut bamboo poles horizontally between trees that are about ten feet apart.\u00a0 The bamboo are about as big around as my arm.\u00a0 I place them where the trees have forks in their trunks: about head, shoulder\u00a0 and waist height.\u00a0 Then I pulled up a bunch of wild potato vine and used it to weave a loose wall in between the bamboo rods.\u00a0 Next I strategically placed cut palmetto fronds and began weaving the live grapevine to secure them in place.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The vines will cover the branches by the end of year as they grow.
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