Landscaping projects are always deceptively time consuming, and this took me a good portion of the afternoon. This was kind of a fun project though because I got to build something.
After the snow melted this afternoon, Christine and I got to work finishing the soil prep and planting some raspberries. The cool part about building a raised bed is that we didn't have to do much digging into the terrible Colorado
The method of mixing the soil on a tarp and then sliding it into the bed worked great. And once we got all the soil put together, it was so nice to be able to move it around easily with your hands instead of struggling with the clay.
It doesn't look like much, but these sticks will someday bring us some tasty raspberries.
Kuzca got in on the action too by digging herself a little bed in her sandbox
We're not all that into doing yard work, but this was more fun than usual. We probably would have rather been doing other things in the sunshine, but we've created a cool garden that will hopefully yield copious amounts of berries.
way cool! where did you get the raspberry sticks?
ReplyDeleteThey came from the nursery that's next to our neighborhood. I also dug up one of them from a friend's house. (Don't worry, he was right there watching.)
ReplyDeleteLook at Kuzca being a good dog and helping out. Whatta champ.
ReplyDeleteActually, she was a bit upset that she wasn't allowed in the new enclosure. To her, it looked like a STICK garden! What is better than that, to a dog? :)
ReplyDeleteFun! Good work.
ReplyDeleteI hope to turn my concrete patio into some sort of garden next month. I'm thinking big pots of tomatoes...
I think we're going to build another bed of the same size and put some vegetables in it. Tomatoes are a must have.
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