I think building the raised garden beds is the easy part! Now we have to fill them. We had a lot of junk we used as fillers - like rotting wood that had previously been used to divide the garden from the grass. We had some junk dirt fill nearby. Then several trips to the farm to fill garbage pails with dried dirt and manure. Then buy a truckload of top soil. Then my husband finds a use for a couple of bags of leftover sand! Finally we can get the plants in! I have blueberry plants in one. I'm hoping they do better in the raised garden bed. I previously had them in the garden and they all died. I transplanted strawberry plants I had in another area and bought some more plants. The 3rd planter has russet potatoes but of course those can't be seen yet! I still hate that rickety picket fence but we're putting on a big push to get our back yard in good shape this year and hope to replace it by the end of summer. Blueberry plants in raised garden bed ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Strawberry plants in center raised garden bed ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Russet potatoes recently planted in closest raised garden bed ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
2 days ago I was at a Chinese restaurant with a friend. I got a great fortune in my cookie and I was going to post it here except of course now I can't find that little slip of paper! It said something to the effect that the fruits of my labor will be sweet indeed. I thought that was a great fortune because this past 10 days we've planted blueberries, strawberries, potatoes, pumpkins, and onions. We've put fruit spikes into the apple, cherry, and pear trees and fertilized the rhubarb and raspberries. Hoping for bumper crops!
With fantastic raised beds like yours how can you fail to have good cropping? Your husband has done a grand job.
All your hard work will undoubtedly pay off with a bounty of produce. Good luck as the season progresses, Jerry
Those look marvelous! I can hardly wait to see the bountiful harvest you get from them. And... about that rickety picket fence... can I come by and get it please?? :-D
Cheryl - that would be quite the drive from Texas to British Columbia for some ugly pickets! Ha ha! This area of the backyard had a picket fence around in when we moved in but we pulled them out and took them to the dump a few years ago. Found all kinds of crap back in that area, including what appeared to be the next door neighbor's spot for disposing of her garden waste! Kind of tough for her to continue now that we've opened the area up and its no longer a jungle. I'll see if I can find a before pic.
Here's what this area looked like in 2007. The raised garden beds are a huge improvement! Those lean to's are long gone. Probably went to the dump same trip as those pickets! Back yard overgrown vegetable garden ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Overgrown back yard vegetable garden June 2007 ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
Those are very nice-looking raised beds, Whistler...and with the plants in them, they really do look quite productive. You must be tickled to have them. They look easy to manage.
What nice height you have to your raised beds. They look incredible. You all have sure done a lot of work over the last few years. Can't wait to see what is coming next.
Those raised beds are lovely... but I also love that old picket fence ! [sigh]... Missouri is a wee bit closer to British Columbia, but not a whole lot. It would have made cool garden art or a nice trellis for your climbers.
We're adding nets to the blueberry and strawberry beds. We have the frames up - just can't find the net in the shed because my husband moved everything from his workshop into the shed while he gets the drywall finished in there. We're hoping it will keep both the dogs and the birds out of the raised beds!
