Building the Veggie Garden

To make space for more veggie beds we took down an existing wire mesh fence and the entangled shrubbery. Everything that grows in our garden has been there for years so it takes alot of persistence and muscles to clear. The photos below are a good example of what we are up against. The brush pile is from the one day of clearing.

another day we began building the beds with Trex decking boards.

and another day we built another bed. so far we have built two beds with Trex and filled them with locally made "super soil." (aka. with compost). we built a second compost bin so we could let the first just do it's thing and then use the compost all at once. we put up a wire mesh trellis at the back of the big bed (hard to see) that will eventually support peas, cucumbers and perhaps melons. and we even planted our first outdoor seeds: broccoli and onions, the peas go in tomorrow.

we used our old hot water pipes to help support the trellis and to build this hose holder...