Raised Cedar Flower beds: Part 3
Spring has sprung in Vancouver!
We finally got our first weekend of nice weather so I logged a solid 12 hours in the garden and finished up my rasied cedar flower bed project.
After waveing the white flag and roping Angus into the project with me (poor sod didn’t know what he was getting into) we borrowed a second power drill from our buddy and started screwing my boxes together (tee hee). After lining them up with one another in the yard with a string and some chopsticks, we jumped up and down on the posts to drive the re-used picket stakes into the ground and install them (see part two).
On Sunday, I called Lawn Boy- by far, the cheapest source of landscaping dirt around town. Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap: $30 per cubic yard and a $50 delivery charge- some places wanted more than for just the dirt. Pssht! And they dropped it off in less than an hour.
I made a quick run to Rona for some peat moss and mushroom manure to amend the soil to perfection and we loaded it into the boxes with the wheel barrow. I installed a layer of biodegradable eco weed block on the top to prevent weeds from popping up and then added another layer of dirt on the top to make it look pretty until the plantings go in.
While it’s not too much to look at just yet, I think it looks waaaay better! (Dizzy likes it too. She’s already taken to scratching the shit out of it, and probably using it as a litter box when I’m not looking…)
After we finished with the boxes, we weeded and raked up the dirt around them to prepare the ground for seeding with grass (later this week). I decided in the end to leave our skewed stepping stones where they were- why not? It’ll look great with the grass growing around it!
Now, it’s down to fixing up the back garden patch and planning what crops will go where. One of the first benefits to using raised cedar beds is better planning. I know the dimensions and have a nice layout to work with, so now I can actually plant things with aesthetics in mind and make better use of companion planting!
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