Papillon Premium Hazel Hurdle Woven Wattle Garden Fence Panel Fencing Panels 1.8m x 1.2m (6ft x 4ft)

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Allowing climbing vegetables to grow up your fence will not only save space in your small garden but will also strengthen the walls of your fence. How to Build a DIY Wattle Fence

They also play a large part in stopping local wildlife from damaging and eating your prize plants. Rabbits, mice, deer, and badgers all bring their own style of destruction to a garden. Their antics can result in disappointment, but can also be prevented. Newly cut, green wood is best and easiest. Willow is an exception as it can be soaked to become more supple. Use thin, long branches -or- larger saplings that are cut down the center (cleft) as ‘weavers’. (See video below on how to cleft a sapling.) The saplings you choose should belong enough to weave around at least three stakes (preferably more)for stability. Map out where you’re going to place the posts before you start. This way you end up with neat, tidy lines, rather than something that looks like a toddler’s scrawl. I like the look of fruit wood, especially apple and plum, so I used my orchard prunings for the top of this fence so that they were visible. The leaves are still on in this picture, but it’s customary to strip the weavers so they’re bare.One of my idle dreams is to set up a coppice wood forest on my property so I always have trellis and wattle wood available. Hardwoods Let me just offer a little caveat, too. I’m a messy, spastic gardener. I love cottage gardens full of flowers, vines traipsing all over the yard, thyme in the walkways and no two spaces the same. My wattle building reflects my unrefined gardening nature.

Needless to say, the wattle technique for cheap garden fences has stood the test of time. We hope you enjoy yours! Aesthetics Most wattle designs are sleek and sturdy, built for strength and endurance. Each piece of wood used has been neatly trimmed and is of a uniform length and width. I love the look that other wattle builders achieve! For example, a person who lives in a mild, temperate climate can use low wattle fences as raised beds. I can’t use those in rural Quebec because the massive snowfall and temperature variations would destroy the fences. They’re pretty, but I’d have to redo them annually. I have said that straight branches are best, but what I really mean is that they’re easiest to use. You CAN use branches that aren’t perfectly straight and have a lovely result. As well as deciding which type of wood or woods to use, you will also have to make a number of other decisions. Before you even start preparing to build your fence, it will be crucial for you to make a number of design decisions.Of course, one of the first steps in making a wattle fence is choosing your wood. The wood you choose to use will have an impact on how strong and sturdy your fencing will be.