This gives you an idea of what our raised bed square foot garden looks like now. You can see the three planters on the left (south side of the garden) where I’ve planted my fall garden. On the right side of the picture (north side of the garden, you can see the three new raised bed planters we’ve installed. We’ll start using these in the spring.
Later today we’ll remove the fabric shade from the top of the garden and spread cedar chips under the new planters.
I just came in from working out there. I put the Mel’s Mix into the last planter. I’ll top these three off before I plant in the spring. I also measured off 1 foot measures all around the top of the three planters and put in screws. We’ll use these when we stretch string in both directions to mark the squares for planting.
We’ll run some 1 x 2 strips down the center of the planters so that we can add a sprinkler in the middle of each square, then tie them together with hose cut to length, and finally attach these three planters to the garden irrigation system.
I’ll weed whack again around the garden and sprinkle Sevin to try to keep the grasshoppers away. I’ll also replace the pink ribbon that runs around the garden and down the guy wires to detour deer from running into it.
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