Our House

With all this warm weather comes gardening! We’ve always wanted to be able to grow our own vegetables and herbs but being apartment-bound made them pretty much impossible. Our past attempts all died sad deaths indoors or were eaten by the cat, so with a big yard - it’s veggie time!

Being unsure of the quality of our soil, it made sense to build a raised-bed garden. The first step was to construct the boxes - we went with two 8’x4’ beds to maximize the veggie growing space we’d have. We also went with cedar over treated lumber to avoid any chemicals leaching into the soil:

Construction of the box is very easy - we had the hardware store cut the 2x4’s before we left the store, and we just had to buy a single 8 foot post and get that cut into 8 pieces. Then it was just a matter of lining everything up and drilling holes!

With the box built, we dug a suitable hole (about 6 inches deep in the hopes that rabbits and other animals wouldn’t burrow under the box too easily) - this first one already had a sandbox in place, so we had to take that apart first.

With the hole dug, we put landscape fabric down and then fit in the box. Then came the dirt, which we purchased at a local landscaping company (it’s 3/4” of a square yard!)

The plants we got at the Friends Plant Sale, and in they went!

It was a pretty easy job, actually, and took only a few hours with construction and everything. We still need to put up some chicken wire to keep out the rabbits and squirrels, but so far all the veggies are growing great!