Vegetable Patch Fencing Plan Check

[relicalpha]

Hi,

I'm planning a quick/easy fence for around a vegetable patch, just something waist height to keep rabbits out and ideally last several years+.

Does this sound sensible?

* Posts 90cm above ground, 20cm below ground and 1m apart with small portions of postcrete (75mm x 75mm wickes posts)
* Chicken wire, buried a 10cm with some gravel a few cm each side of wire to stop weeds.
* Wire just stapled to posts - are 20cm deep posts enough to take hammering this in?
* Probably no gate, but might add a cheap picket fence one with wire added

* Is it necessary to have any cross rails between posts? Or maybe a rail sitting on top of all the posts like pic below?
* If sawing posts in half, any need to paint/seal the cut end?

This is kind of what I'm imagining:



Thanks (DIY newbie! )

 

[PlacidCasual]

I think the rule of thumb is 1/3rd in the ground 2/3rd above. So for a 90cm post 45cm in the ground. If you’re having a top rail it should take the strain of chicken wire ok. Burying the wire is a pain, it is not uncommon for animals to dig at the foot of the fence. So if you fold the wire at the bottom outwards and put light slabs on it that will be as effective as burying. Animals will try to dig at the base of fence but the wire will stop them, at least in theory.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Looks nice but it just needs to be a physical barrier chicken wire buried into the ground nailed/stapled to posts just so long as it stays up its fine, the rabbits won't care about aethestics

 

[200sols]

Use 100x100mm posts 40cm in the ground, they last much longer than the 75mm posts when just postcreted into the ground. You could go further apart than 1m. If you have badgers they will dig under chicken wire and get in, the wire needs to extend under ground a good 30cm as well to stop this if it is a problem for you. Badgers ate all my sweetcorn until I secured the plants.

 

[relicalpha]

Thanks guys, really helpful