Wooden Yard Carrots

I have a small garden.  Not much will actually grow in it due to it's relative position to the Sun's daily travels, which worked out ok because my house rabbits at the time didn't eat tomatoes anyway.  Lettuce and parsley grew just fine and that was good enough for them.  This year there seems to be an abundance of wild rabbits in the area and they are helping themselves to the buffet.  I'm not going to trap them and I'm certainly not going to harm them ... if you can't beat them, join them they say.  I don't know who "they" are, but I've heard it somewhere.

The Neighbor was replacing his fence so I scored a reclaimed post.  I had some scrap pressure treated 2"x4" and pallet wood.   It was time to make some yard art.

The carrot tops were turned on a lathe, but you could easily use just an oscillationg belt sander or an ordinary belt sander.



The greens were made from a 2x4" ripped into 1/2" widths.  Overall length was arbitrary and varied on purpose.  I cut the diagonal side on a bandsaw and cleaned up the cut on an oscillating belt sander.

A few coats of spray paint on the parts.

I made a quick hole layout jig from cardboard and drilled the holes with a sharpened nail because I couldn't find an adequate sized drill bit.

Stems are attached with a cut off nail and epoxy.

Once they were all assembled, I hit them with a few coats of polyurethane.