Yesterday was so beautiful and warm that when my husband came home from work he asked if I wanted to finish building our raised beds. That is exactly what I was hoping he'd say. We have been trying to get these raised beds together for weeks but our efforts have been thwarted by rain, holidays, prior commitments and equipment failure. We did manage to get the 3 8x4 beds done and painted but that was it.
Yesterday we hit a grove. We finished the other 8 beds (10x4). I drilled holes while my husband transported the boards outside. At about the same time the drilling was done, he had finished constructing one of the beds, so we moved it into place and I started painting them while he kept building them. Took us about two hours and they are done.
This picture is roughly the formation I want them in. 4 L brackets around 3 tightly spaced beds in the middle. There will be enough room for a wheelbarrow to get through and I will be able to reach all sides. It's 416 sq ft of garden space. It's HUGE! Can't wait to get my fingernails dirty. I have seedlings that are just itching to get outside.
I am not sure I want them in this particular spot. I will probably have to move them farther back into the yard. We plan to reconfigure the deck and patio in a year or two so I would hate to go through all this work just to have to move them next year. A little bit of planning now with save me a gigantic headache later.
That's what's on my mind...
