beavis
Deeply Rooted
I'll have you know, this is all vfem's fault
After seeing her current raised bed project, I really started rethinking some abandoned raised beds I have next to the hoophouse.
I had three half-arsed beds to start with, spaced too close together and with weak drip irrigation installed. Hard to tell from the first picture which is my starting point, but the area between the two beds was also a bed, I just stole the wood and moved it to another area for a different raised bed last year.
The three raised beds only had a foot of walkway in between beds, very unacceptable to work in.
So today, I combined the three raised beds into two, and left three feet of walkway in between them.
SO the beds are looking good already after a half day of work but the big news is I am going to make these my two raised beds where I can grow veggies in a PROTECTED ZONE.
I will be installing a perimeter fence of poultry wire and eventually a roof top as well to keep out: children, dog, chickens ,house finches and mockingbirds from my bounty.
here was my starting point today:
And what I accomplished in a few hours, moving the beds, and shoveling the dirt back into the new beds.
Next up will be building the perimeter fence. It will be six feet tall, made of 2x4's and 1x4's and poultry netting. 10 feet long on the short sides, 28 feet long on the longer sides, with a gate and eventually a roof, also of poultry netting.
After seeing her current raised bed project, I really started rethinking some abandoned raised beds I have next to the hoophouse.
I had three half-arsed beds to start with, spaced too close together and with weak drip irrigation installed. Hard to tell from the first picture which is my starting point, but the area between the two beds was also a bed, I just stole the wood and moved it to another area for a different raised bed last year.
The three raised beds only had a foot of walkway in between beds, very unacceptable to work in.
So today, I combined the three raised beds into two, and left three feet of walkway in between them.
SO the beds are looking good already after a half day of work but the big news is I am going to make these my two raised beds where I can grow veggies in a PROTECTED ZONE.
I will be installing a perimeter fence of poultry wire and eventually a roof top as well to keep out: children, dog, chickens ,house finches and mockingbirds from my bounty.
here was my starting point today:
And what I accomplished in a few hours, moving the beds, and shoveling the dirt back into the new beds.
Next up will be building the perimeter fence. It will be six feet tall, made of 2x4's and 1x4's and poultry netting. 10 feet long on the short sides, 28 feet long on the longer sides, with a gate and eventually a roof, also of poultry netting.
