Saturday, April 3, 2010

Stone raised beds

Raised beds can be edged with landscape timbers, wood boards, concrete blocks, old railroad ties, brick, stone of various sorts, or nothing at all (just mounded up).

But we opted for permanence and appearance in these new beds, converted from empty 'driveway' space to growing space for vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

It was a process, but not actually all that difficult, although physically taxing (I knew I should have been spending more time lifting weights this winter!)

The sequence is hard to make accurate, as arranging images in Blogger can be quite exasperating -- but maybe I've fixed them with draft Blogger.

Hopefully, you'll get the idea.

Mocha (our gardening assistant) enjoys supervising.

And I'll have plenty of lovely 'top soil' created from vegetable compost and composted manure to nourish our summer vegetables.

We have more than enough stones (and 'soil') to create two more beds below the house.

That'll be a project for another weekend.