So literally the next thing I knew, a few veggies, some Black Cow, and a few feed lot panels had hopped into the back of the garden truck, and there was no turning back.
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James bought me this old Ford last year to use as a garden truck. It swallows 8 ft. landscape timbers with ease and beneath the tool box provides a shady ride home from the nursery for plants.
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If you'll remember, there was a 50 ft. x 100 ft. garden on the property and I had done a tiny bit of gardening (3 rows) in it last fall. But this time around, I wanted to start what would eventually become the permanent garden- I just wanted to take it in increments.
In January, I started moving plants from spots that were wrong for them to better locations. I relocated lantana, spirea, forsythia, roses, and daylilies to what would become the flower beds surrounding the nonexistent veggie garden. So I decided to start my spur-of-the-moment garden by building beds around them.
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I know this was the absolute wrong way to go about this, but I had no choice!
The plants needed to be moved in January and so I moved them- bed or no bed.
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I used this product to edge the beds. It came in 30 ft. pieces and was super easy to install.
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Crazy, right?! Building beds next to a fence that doesn't exist!
The only things remaining from the previous owner was the gate and a few random fence posts.
I covered the grass with newspaper, and then the newspaper with mulched leaves.
I'll add soil and compost to build these beds up as I go along, but for now this is good enough.
Slowly, but surely, the beds began to take shape....
Until tomorrow,
Shelli
What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da Vinci |
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