So one of the things on my honey-do list was to build a garden box. Materials: 3 pallets shanked from behind various businesses, 3 hammers, one box of 5d nails, 3 really tall guys, the sweat box that is the garage, one fan why we dont know, and about a half a case of water.
Result: 6 gallons of sweat and about a hundred bent nails later, 6 piles of really crappy wood, but FREE wood. With only 8 cuts to the 4x4's and another 45 minutes of sweat pouring off os us like a waterfall in Yosemite; POOF!
A roughly 6x6 garden box. Now we're ready to get dirty!
We mixed equal parts peat moss, vermiculite, and humus-gro. Have you ever played in the sand as a kid? Well this was exactly like that, except, the sand was black and a little smelly, and stuck to our sweaty arms like molasses on a pancake. The result is a rich, black canvas which will produce a palette of colorful, homegrown vegetables.
The final touch before planting was a twine checkerboard to separate our veggies.
Voila!
Very nice. I hope you did the building part at night but I guess in Vegas it isn't much cooler at night.
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