Garden boxes

I'm so sick of this.

Mother Nature teased us and gave us a brief and I do mean brief moment of gardening excitement.  We started building new boxes and as you can see we got all the stuff to get started and then WHAM!!  Snow!  Our apricot blossoms seemed ok so were keeping our fingers crossed that they make it.

So we did get started and here is a few pictures to hopefully get you excited about getting your garden going when the weather cooperates.

Get any wood you can get your hands on.  This is what we had.

Then we just nailed them together. When I say we I really mean Matt and my Dad.   I had other important matters to CHASE after.  2 is such a fun age!

I forgot to mention that before we put the box in place we laid down a weed barrier.  This helps keep the grass and weeds from getting into your boxes. We are putting the weed barrier in between the boxes as well.  Then we are going to cover it with bark so that we do not have to mow in between them.

Here is our dirt.  In a previous post I talked about what you needed to make a great weed free dirt.  Two of our boxes will have the new dirt and 2 will have dirt that was just from the yard.  I'll show you over the coarse of the summer the difference in weeds. 

Then we busted open the bag of compost, peat moss, and vermiculite and mixed well.
Hopefully by this weekend we can get a few plants in the ground.

The emergency preparedness committee is planning an FHE night to demonstrate square foot gardening.  It should be packed full of great information!   .

Happy gardening!