Raised Bed Project - 2019
The soil in our main gardens stays pretty wet until around June. So, as many of you gardeners know, there are plenty of crops, i.e. peas, carrots, beets, potatoes, etc. that can be planted in March/April when the soil is cool and fairly dry, i.e. no mud. Not good to plant in mud, even with shoe covers, the plants don't like it. In order for us to begin planting earlier, we determined that raised beds would be our best option. |
| Empty pallets |
Side note: In 2004 we started out with "temporary" concrete block raised beds. "Temporary" in that the blocks were set on smoothed out soil, filled with sand and some covered with plastic lumber. All a big experiment. Several problems arose - wasps built their nests under the plastic lumber, and because we didn't cover some of the blocks, we had to weed in the individual blocks, and the rain did wash much of the sand out of the corners of the blocks. BUT, even with these issues, the beds were a resounding success! We learned how to manage the soil in the beds. The decision was made, that since we had all of the concrete blocks, that we mortar each bed and put a permanent cover over them. So, ta da!
Hoping to open the stand in Mid-June give or take a week or two! Adding an herb garden just outside of the stand.
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| Gravel walkways will allow for weed burning. |
