My friend (and often business compatriot) Iris and I built raised veggie beds for her family friend Alice this week. Okay, it would have been just us but her boyfriend Forrest was also working in town at her parents house, and we had a truck use conflict (as in, we both wanted it for our projects) so we compromised by sharing jobs! So in the mornings we were working at Alice's, and in the afternoons, the Lomaxes. It was good for us, cause he did all the "man work" of rototilling and chainsawing. This is what the beds looked like when we were done (we will be adding more plants next week when the seedlings I started in the greenhouse are ready to go).
They are four by eight foot beds, with about two feet of pathway between them. We filled the beds with two and a half yards of three way soil blend from Mt Scott fuel on Foster (I love that place).
Alice wanted a veggie garden so she could teach her grandson about gardening, and where your food comes from. She had this one really sunny spot in the yard, where it also happened there were two HUGE boxwoods that were destroying her fence. We decided since it was the sunny spot, and the bushes had to go, we'd do it all at once. Below is a picture of one of the bushes down, and the other just started.
Here the root ball of one of the boxwoods. Oh, man, was that hard to get out. It would have been easy if the chainsaws were cooperating, but well, one broke, and the other's chain needs replacing. we also broke the handle on the Maul wacking at it! To be fair, all three tools were kind of at the end of their usefulness without some maintenance, we just thought they'd last a bit longer!
Here's Iris with the four boxes, and Forrest in the background shoveling dirt out of the truck.
Another view of the beds. We put down weed barrier between the beds to keep the grass down that might decide to try growing again. Not gonna happen!
Pretty pretty dirt!
And the last photo is up top! I'm bringing over some starts from my yard next week. Along with the squash, beans, salad greens and basil starts I have coming up in my greenhouse. Hey, a late veggie garden is better than no garden at all!
And here's a list of things I need to get to replace what broke:
Maul handle (okay, got this one already)
wheelbarrow handles
new push broom (broom part broke in half!)
clutch for chainsaw
chain for chainsaw
blades for skilsaw
And I REALLY want a circular saw, I used one yesterday to build yet another raised bed at Elizabeths, and I am in love. LOVE. With a saw.
They are four by eight foot beds, with about two feet of pathway between them. We filled the beds with two and a half yards of three way soil blend from Mt Scott fuel on Foster (I love that place).Alice wanted a veggie garden so she could teach her grandson about gardening, and where your food comes from. She had this one really sunny spot in the yard, where it also happened there were two HUGE boxwoods that were destroying her fence. We decided since it was the sunny spot, and the bushes had to go, we'd do it all at once. Below is a picture of one of the bushes down, and the other just started.
Here the root ball of one of the boxwoods. Oh, man, was that hard to get out. It would have been easy if the chainsaws were cooperating, but well, one broke, and the other's chain needs replacing. we also broke the handle on the Maul wacking at it! To be fair, all three tools were kind of at the end of their usefulness without some maintenance, we just thought they'd last a bit longer!
Here's Iris with the four boxes, and Forrest in the background shoveling dirt out of the truck.
Another view of the beds. We put down weed barrier between the beds to keep the grass down that might decide to try growing again. Not gonna happen!
Pretty pretty dirt!
And the last photo is up top! I'm bringing over some starts from my yard next week. Along with the squash, beans, salad greens and basil starts I have coming up in my greenhouse. Hey, a late veggie garden is better than no garden at all!And here's a list of things I need to get to replace what broke:
Maul handle (okay, got this one already)
wheelbarrow handles
new push broom (broom part broke in half!)
clutch for chainsaw
chain for chainsaw
blades for skilsaw
And I REALLY want a circular saw, I used one yesterday to build yet another raised bed at Elizabeths, and I am in love. LOVE. With a saw.
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