Well its time to get the garden going and already we have been at it for a few weeks now. I didn’t think the ground was ever going to dry out enough so we could start tilling it.
This year we have decided to start working on several more permanent raised beds made from wood. We are placing the new boxes right on the grass. Then we lay down cardboard boxes inside the boxes to kill the grass and prevent anything else from growing up through the dirt after the box is filled. This seems like a great way to recycle some stuff that was going to just be thrown away anyway. After that we filled the boxes with garden soil and compost that we got form our wonderful compost pile.
The really cool part was when I got the idea to put cardboard on top of the compost and use it as a mulch.
using cardboard for mulch
How about that!
The other 2 boxes that we have built so far were made from some old railroad tembers that were here at the house when we bought it. Actually, they were part of the fence that the prevous owners had built and we tore down.
The first of many to come.
I hope to build a lot more of these and we hope to eventually have something like the Dervaes family in southern California. They have been spotlighted on just about every major news show in the country and really have a neat urban sustainable farm. Check them out on youtube.
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