Larry is growing the squash and tomatoes. I wanted to make a raised bed, for carrots and maybe something else. I tried raising carrots back in New Jersey 10 years ago and found that they are quite picky about soil conditions.
And I didn't want to use wood. Untreated lumber will rot. Treated lumber - I just do not want the chemicals around. I know they aren't as bad as they used to be, and i know that they don't leach all that far into the soil.
I don't care. I wanted concrete block. Also unnatural, but it'll have to do.
How to abuse a compact car.
Larry could carry two blocks at a time. I could only carry one at a time, plus I kept stopping to take pictures.
But I did almost all the building!
The Building Inspector
And I didn't want to use wood. Untreated lumber will rot. Treated lumber - I just do not want the chemicals around. I know they aren't as bad as they used to be, and i know that they don't leach all that far into the soil.
I don't care. I wanted concrete block. Also unnatural, but it'll have to do.
How to abuse a compact car.
Larry could carry two blocks at a time. I could only carry one at a time, plus I kept stopping to take pictures.
But I did almost all the building!
The Building Inspector
And .... this bed is too small.
So I redesigned it. It's now larger than the version in this picture.
Stay tuned for further pictures.
And for our negotiations with other interested parties:
5 comments:
Oh, wonderful pictures! I look forward to seeing how this turns out! (I've never had success raising veggies in our yard - except for snowpeas. OH MY GOD do I get huge yields of snowpeas. Nothing else - NOTHING - ever peeps above the surface after the seeds go in.)
Good luck! Keep us posted on the progress. Love the pic of the building inspector....
ronnie - maybe you should start calling all vegetables snow-whatever, like snowcorn, snowjalapenos, etc. Just a thought for the Great White North.
this is a great idea! why haven't they heard about this on the east coast? great pix....
Hi XE and welcome! I hope it turns out to be a good idea, but we'll have to see whether we get any food out of it first!
Here i am, a librarian/bookseller, whose first act in any project is usually "Let me buy a book about it before we do anything!" and i did this completely on impulse. Sherwood's redwood boxes are beautiful. Hopefully the beauty of my concrete box will be enhanced by lush plant growth!
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