Let me explain about why these boxes are amazing. They are far and away better than any boxes ever seen! They are made from the white cedars that were once growing on the site.
White cedar is one of those indestructible woods that will resist rotting and insects and last at least five years in box form with wet dirt packed against them. and that's without any sort of stain or weather proofing on them. i figure they will last 10 years.
so, My Guy cut down the trees, milled the trees into lumber, chipped the parts of the tree that weren't mill-able, built the boxes, and then helped me move the boxes on top of the mulch. then, above all of that, he left me alone to move them around until they were just right by my own plans.
Our Neighbor, upon hearing that i was under the weather and unable to spread the mulch around under my own devices, brought his tractor over and pushed it around so all i had to do was rake it into an even 3" cover.
Behold! a raised bed garden built entirely from the ground that it is standing on! There are another eight or nine boxes in the works once he has finished dispatching with The Big Tree. It is lying on top of the other half of the garden plot. My Guy is great.
But what is the purpose of the boxes?
ReplyDeletethe boxes are to be filled with dirt, then filled with tiny seeds that will hopefully fill the garden with veggies. if deer/bugs/skunks/rabbits/disease don't stop them.
ReplyDeleteSo the boxes serve no functional purpose? Just curious, they are pretty.
ReplyDeletetheir function is to hold dirt to grow a garden therein. very pretty and eventually delicous
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