07-06-2011, 03:05 AM
Agree with Carey and Rich.
However, I do appreciate establishing your borders.
We did this on our previous land and it was well worth it, as a couple years after the neighbors tried to build as close as possible to the prop line and luckily we had all our plantings and fencing in.
The absolute easiest but costly is a fence.
Here you can put in hog wire as fencing and it is reliable and lasts. or you can spend the money for cyclone/hurricane fencing. the maintenance is minimal, but the initial cost is a lot.
Our current HPP property was ripped about 2 years ago. We so far have had to bring in 60 yards of cinder soil to plant ONE side border.
We planted above ground beds rather than digging into the lava. We have clumping bamboo, areca palms, ti trees and hybiscus along that one border we have done. It was very expensive and time consuming.
Radius: We planted the long raised beds about 5 feet wide with about 5 feet behind it to the neighbors cyclone/hurricane fence so we could walk along and tend the beds from the back side.
Maintenance: the plants so far need no maintenance. The weeds and grass growning up all around them is awful and this is under mulch, lots of mulch.
Good luck with your new land. Congratulations.
However, I do appreciate establishing your borders.
We did this on our previous land and it was well worth it, as a couple years after the neighbors tried to build as close as possible to the prop line and luckily we had all our plantings and fencing in.
The absolute easiest but costly is a fence.
Here you can put in hog wire as fencing and it is reliable and lasts. or you can spend the money for cyclone/hurricane fencing. the maintenance is minimal, but the initial cost is a lot.
Our current HPP property was ripped about 2 years ago. We so far have had to bring in 60 yards of cinder soil to plant ONE side border.
We planted above ground beds rather than digging into the lava. We have clumping bamboo, areca palms, ti trees and hybiscus along that one border we have done. It was very expensive and time consuming.
Radius: We planted the long raised beds about 5 feet wide with about 5 feet behind it to the neighbors cyclone/hurricane fence so we could walk along and tend the beds from the back side.
Maintenance: the plants so far need no maintenance. The weeds and grass growning up all around them is awful and this is under mulch, lots of mulch.
Good luck with your new land. Congratulations.
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