Garden Boxes-UPDATE

Mother's Day afternoon project :)  Finally the boxes are put together, and will slowly be filled with dirt over the course of this week (as weather and free time permits).  It is still a bit too early to plant yet for our area, but hopefully starting sometime toward the end of NEXT week (Memorial Weekend), I'll have plants in the boxes :D

Here are a few pics from the project.

 Maddy, John Sr., and Simon...working on Box #1

Maddy, John Sr, Ephraim, and Simon

Box # 2 laid out...

Maddy...uh..supervising and John Jr. WORKING! 

Ephraim putting in the first shovels of dirt

So now we have two boxes built and ready for dirt.

Box #1 is made 8' long by 4' wide and about 12" deep.

(for root veggies)

Box #2 is made 8' long by 4' wide by about 6" deep.

(for above ground veggies)

Raised Bed Gardening

It's been 2 years since I had my first REAL garden.  I loved it...but last summer was too busy with traveling, I didn't have time for a garden.  The spot I used for my garden 2 summer's ago is no longer available...and our "yard" isn't really garden worthy, so I am going to put in some raised beds.  Two 8' x 4' beds to be exact, one that will be about 12" high (for carrots, beets, potatoes-root veggies) and the other 6" high for everything else.  This is a new adventure for me (even the gardening is "new" to me). 

 

A few weeks ago I started some of the plants inside...and here is where my babies are now:

 

So I got the wood...

And the dirt...

The plan is to get the boxes built this weekend, so through the week I can fill them with dirt, build the grid, and by memorial weekend I can start planting!  I am so excited for mid-summer veggies!! :)