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Garden Journal – Chapter 16

November 16, 2008 · Filed under Garden and Home · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Mounting Solar Lights on a Fence

In my last garden post I took pictures of the solar yard lights that my husband modified so they could be on the fence, Chapter 15 (https://grouchow.wordpress.com/category/garden/). VR, a blog reader, left a comment and suggested that I make a snapshot and explain what my hubby did to adapt the lights.

I told my hubby and he was happy to provide a few instructions. Since these lights are designed to be on the ground and we wanted them on the fence there had to be an off set because of the size of the solar top. Now, I suppose wood blocks come in all shapes and sizes and my husband could have purchased a prefab but he likes to recycle things so he used some of his scrap wood instead.

He cut a 2 x 4 board into 4 inch sections then cut the same amount of pieces into 4 inch sections using a 1 x 4 board.  He used deck or drywall screws to fasten the two pieces together. This made a nice little block.  Then he sprayed the blocks with black enamel paint. He then mounted 1/2 inch Plastic Conduit Clamps on the block to hold the light fixture. The little pipe that comes with the light, now, just slips right into the clamps and the lamp’s lower ring rests on the block once the block has been mounted to the fence.  Neat idea, huh? 

I think it makes a lot more light in a small space. To get a better idea, here are the close up pictures that I took.

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Garden Journal – Chapter 15

October 18, 2008 · Filed under Garden and Home · Tagged , , , , ,

The Back Yard Garden By Night

This summer I was meandering in the back yard and thought it would be fun to take a few pictures of the garden by night.

This is a picture of the dwarf apple tree bearing fruit.  By the way, the apples were delicious!

These next two pictures are of the vegetable garden.  In our climate we can usually plant string beans several times because of the long growing season.  I believe this was planting number three. Some of the plantings had a harder time than others because we had a pretty bad water shortage.

In an earlier chapter I told you what we did with the lattice and this bench seat.  This photo shows the morning glories climbing right up to the top and over.  I think I might put a little table in front of the bench.  That might make for a cozier sitting arrangement!  Just trying to hid the brick path to nowhere.

I like to keep a little light in the back yard so we found these nifty solar yard lights.  Normally people put them in the ground but we wanted them on the fence so my hubby modified them so we could do just that.  The put out much more light this way too.  I lightened this first picture a bit so you can clearly see some of the drought damage to the grass.

The fence reminds me of a runway, when night falls.

Stay tuned for the next chapter. 🙂 Thanks.

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