Yesterday I told you about my new PVC raised gardening boxes in the far top left corner. At $59.97 each on sale, they certainly were not a cheap way to build raised garden beds especially since between the two I ended up with 16 square feet of growing space. My husband doesn't like the new PVC beds so he picked up some spruce to build me a wooden raised bed.
The new raised bed is 4' x 12' x 10" giving me an additional 48 square feet of growing space. The new bed construction took a couple of days due to weather but finally it was ready for soil. Again we were delayed due to weather but finally the bed was ready to lay out the grid then plant.
The cost for the lumber and brackets totaled $38.45, considerably less expensive per square foot than the PVC beds. I've had wooden square foot garden beds last well over five years so if you want neat and tidy raised beds that are easy to set up for square foot gardening, untreated spruce is more than reasonably priced.
By then end of the afternoon, I had the bed mostly planted. Three squares remained unplanted. I planted bistro salad blend, dill, habs, golden acre cabbage, super chili peppers, muskmelon, watermelon, holy moly peppers, celery and sweet million tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, roma tomatoes and lemon boy tomatoes. Within a couple of days something had got to the celery and dill but the dill is coming back. I noticed a couple of small grasshoppers so that is not a good sign. Something is already eating the cabbage but I haven't seen what yet. I'll just have to keep and eye out to identify the pests then work on control from there.
Happy Gardening!
Garden Gnome
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