Garden Beds 2013

We FINALLY. Got started on the garden beds this year. Our beds from last year were awesome but needed lots of improvement and more sun. Our friend gave us a bunch of shaved tree trunks about 20 feet long. We initially cut them about 10' in size, and then cut them in to 4' or 5' lengths to make the garden beds. I had fun using the mantis and tilling up all the soil while the Hubs started to put them together.




The tree on the far right is where last years garden, it blocked a lot of light from my plants. The dogs will be able to have that area back for themselves.





The first bed is almost up! It took a lot of arguing to get him to make these garden beds 'my way', which is the easy way. I love him but he over analyses things too much and doesn't know how to do anything half assed. My last planter bed he built (while gorgeous and tougher than a tornado) cost $200 and took 2 months to build. It was only 3' x 10'. I really do enjoy simple and quick rewards. So when he said he needed to till, level, dig out where the beds would go and string level before building them, I let out a swift 'oh hell no!' Thats a lot of time and work, and I had expectations as to how fast I thought they should be built. I won and we had 3 planters done by the end of the day. Yay! I expect these planters to last me at least 5 years. Hopefully longer. Besides the posts and top soil, they will all be built on free materials. Woo hoo!!