a Saturday project

Matt and I have been talking for a while about creating some raised beds to grow some veggies (and maybe flowers too) in our yard. Today, a large chunk of the project was finished. I decided that the space between our sheds was the best place to put something. The space was unused and overgrown. It's really not a good space for much. Before we started, there were piles of old wood from things that we had taken out of the house and sheds. There were buckets of monkey grass that I had collected from the front flower bed when we cleared it. (I intended to replant it around our back bed, but it just hasn't happened.) There were also weeds galore...big tall weeds and tree weeds.


The first part of the day was spent clearing the junk out of this space and kinda leveling out the ground. The space is a funny space because the sheds sit parallel to the fence connecting to two different yards. The fences are not straight in relation to each other. That left a triangular shaped space between them. I decided that we would add one rectangular bed and one triangular (mostly) bed.


Here is a good shot of both beds. As you can see, we still need to get some compost and top soil put into them. However, all of the construction is done! Yay!


We will also be adding one other bed on the end of the shed closest to the back of the yard. This area is shaded, so I'm going to have to be careful about what we put in it. We also made some progress on that bed today. The wood has been cut. We still need to do a little ground leveling and then actually put the sides together.

Hopefully, we can get the rest of this project finished this week. By then, some of our little seedlings may be ready to be transplanted into them!