First mission: garden beds for the backyard.
After standing in the wood aisle at Lowes for well over an hour looking online at various garden bed plans, we realized that we could do whatever we wanted. We turned off our phones and just started guessing. We knew we wanted: two raised beds, each rectangle, same size, at least a foot tall and they needed a ledge to set things on.
To be honest I wanted the cheapest wood possible (who knows if we are actually capable of growing anything!) but my BFF at Lowes (I now have a few) talked us into getting cedar. "You want these things to rot? Go right ahead, use the cheap wood!" So cedar it was! A little more expensive but worth it I suppose.
Here they are! Our little coffins :) That's were they stayed for the next two weeks while I patiently waited for appropriate planting weather.
Two weeks later: Quick rearrange and we were good to go! Not as coffin-ey. (The grass changed SO much in that time).
Being newbies at this we looked up "raised garden bed tips" and just about everyone said to throw cardboard down before the soil. It will kill the grass but is biodegradable and supposedly worms will like it. SO cardboard went down.
Onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, red pepper, yellow pepper and red pepper!
Those plastic labels just weren't doing anything for me. I remember seeing somewhere that you can make garden stakes with just about anything. So a handful of paint stir sticks and some chalk paint later I had some garden stakes! (Plus a quick coat of poly of course).
MUCH better :) Lets cross our fingers we have goodies growing this summer!
A little garden and the backyard is good to go for now. The front desperately needs some love!
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