I wanted to do something special for Stacy this year for Mother’s Day. Now that we have a house, I decided to make her some raised garden beds so that she could have her own little garden. I originally planned to get them done in time for Mother’s Day but ran a little bit behind schedule. Making the raised beds was the easy part. They’re just 2 x 4s and 4 x 4s. The hard part was preparing the area that they were going to go in. I grossly underestimated the time it would take to remove the existing grass and level the area before I could put the raised beds in place.
I was determined to get this project done before we went to Nashville. The weather didn’t always cooperate—there were a couple of days I had to work in the rain—but I managed to get it done. Well, close enough. The only thing I had left to do when we got back from Nashville was fill them with soil.
This is what I started with:
I could have just built a couple of raised garden beds and just put them out there, but I wanted to add some pavers to make it look nice. In order to put the pavers in the ground underneath had to be as level as possible. Here I am working in the rain trying to get things level. That umbrella didn’t do much to keep me dry.
What’s that old saying? “Preparation is the key to success.” Or something like that. The preparation was the hardest part. Once the grass was removed and the ground was level, putting the pavers and raised beds in was pretty easy.
Stacy hasn’t decided what she wants to plant in them yet. Maybe flowers…maybe vegetables…or maybe one of each.
