Well, I had a little extra open space… So I decided to try and build these beds in this style that I saw on someone’s blog… can’t remember where.

When we built the others, we used 10 and 12 inch wide boards… kind of expensive actually. And primarily due to having to be bigger trees and all to get good wide boards out of them.

So instead, I bought 1 x 4’s…. 8 feet long. They were only $2.07 each. Not too bad. Each bed was only 9 boards. And we used 2 x 2 stock in the corners to stablize them.

They are staggered, like logs basically… and screwed into the 2×2 corners.

Nice looking….

SInce there was a weird space behind the Moby, on the ugly side, behind the water meter… It was just perfect for two raised beds.

I bought 20 – 40 pound bags of topsoil and 6 bags of composted manure. Guess what? Didn’t even top one of the beds!!! Oh well… another day, another $1.21 a bag of dirt. I’ll probably get like 25 more bags or so, and level it off and that will be good for this year. We’lre just going to grow more corn, beans and peas in there, with some leaf lettuce and spinach too….

Very handsome looking… we now have 488 sq. ft of raised beds all working for harvest in a few months… pretty keen. As well as our little mini-orchard of 6 dwarf fruit trees and our 4 grow bags of potatoes!

Yes, I am the dirt queen at the moment… Mulch and dirt are my treasures…