Fences!

A sign that we are really back is a more organized yard.  The man who helps us with the yard work has planted pineapple suckers (still only on the side path, not totally surrounding our garden like before) and has started fixing the fence.  The uprights are wood - he cut the first few from planks using a handsaw, but since our remaining saw has tiny teeth (our two regular saws seem to have walked away in the last 5 years - sigh!) it was very difficult; so he improvised the only way he knew how - bringing a chainsaw to finish the work!!

So the uprights were planted, and the bamboo crosspieces were the next project.  Long pieces of bamboo were brought, then a cutlass/machete and block of wood used to split the bamboo length-ways, creating semi-flat pieces of bamboo which could be nailed onto the fence posts.

 And the finished product - not exactly straight in some places, but it does the job, keeping out more of the goats and random village kids.  It will be even better when all sides are completed :).

 Meanwhile, I have made my own kind of "fence" around my tomatoes in the front flower bed, trying to keep kids from sitting on them or goats from trampling on them.  It's encouraging to see them grow; I planted more seeds, and they sprout after only a few days - wonderful :).