Then my dad visited and soon after, I got this in my inbox. It came after a lengthy trip to Lowe's to show me what bags of manure, peat, etc. to buy, and where the wood is, what wood to buy, etc. The Lowe's trip came with a $100 Lowe's Gift Card, which we just used up yesterday.
I also got a box of screws and brackets from the diagram. Awesome!
M and I got to work in the evening building the frame. (Actually, M did the work. I just held stuff together and listened to him cuss when he bloodied his hands. Whoever says gardening isn't hard hasn't tried to build a raised bed....) We got the frame laid out as the sun went down.
It seems that we were overzealous in our digging and only really needed half of the plot we dug up. Que sera, sera...
Luckily, we were working in the yard that day and noticed a pool of water in the corner by a faucet. A pool in the desert is always cause for concern so M went under the house to check for leaks. Yes, UNDER the HOUSE!
There was no leak in the house and we discovered it was a hole in the pipe beneath the ground. So good news is we got it fixed. Bad news is there's a freaky crawl space beneath my house! This has the making of a great scary movie. (no worries though, my boobs aren't big enough to star in a scary movie so we're gonna be ok)
Last Tuesday morning I woke up to very cold weather, which in my mind was perfect for filling the bed in with all the displaced earth.
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| Bring it on, Cold Weather! |
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| Raised bed with a dad-approved ratio of soil-to-manure-to-peat moss mixture |
Oh! and the container herbs are doing good too!
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| From bottom to Top - Scallions, Garlic, Spinach, and Spinach... there's also a tiny wild cilantro in there somewhere |
