This design was built to laugh at extreme temperatures, punishing winds, and even herds of wildlife.Ihave often thought of myself as "gardening against the odds." My rural Black Earth, Wisconsin, garden is adjacent to a marsh and pond and is technically in Zone 5a, but the open farmland and subsequent winds around me place it closer to Zone 4b. I've lost plants to harsh winters, deer, rabbits, and woodchucks. I've had snapping turtles till up my garden beds to make nests and beloved woody plants destroyed by beavers. As if all that weren't enough, the majority of the shade in the garden is from blackwalnut trees, which cause lots of problems, like robbing moisture and nutrients from surrounding plants.
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