We've settled on a two pronged strategy for gardening this year. First, we're going to do it Right, and with the help of our friend Dawn, put in some Square Foot Gardens. Then, because I can't leave well enough alone, we're going to have an X-garden for me to play in.
I sent Shira and Dawn off to Home Depot for the Square Foot Gardening supplies and this is how they returned:
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I helped pull the wood out of the car and organize it a bit:
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I then went back inside and returned some time later to see this sight:
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That's Dawn using her power drill, because mine is too small. I retreated back inside to save my manhood (and work on another project). When I returned, the building phase was complete! That wasn't hard at all. (Actually, the trip to Home Depot took far longer than the construction phase of the raised beds).
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Later this week we'll pick up the right mix of soil, some plants and we'll be on our way!
Now it was time for the X-Garden. Previously, I had ordered a Big Bag Bed. which while pricier than the small bit of lumber needed for the raised beds, does require zero effort setup (and no mind-losing trip to Home Depot!). I filled it with 9 bags of Nature's Care Raised Bed Soil. It's what Home Depot had, and fit the low effort theme of the X-Garden.
I planted the following seeds: Milkweed (think of the butterflies!), Quinoa, Amaranth, carrots, beans, Borage, Wild Purslane and Golden Berry (aka: Cape Gooseberry).
Will anything grow? Who knows! For now I've got very low expectations. Here's how X-Garden looks once filled and seeded:
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As long as we were at Home Depot, we could resist picking up some decorative flowers as we like to do every year. And as usual, it's T & E gardening all the way.
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Definitely fun times, and I'm psyched to see the Square Foot Gardening approach coming together.
I was wondering what those 'boxes' were when we came by.
ReplyDeleteMystery solved :-). Now we just need to get them filled with dirt and plants...
ReplyDeleteWe did a raised bed too this year :)
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