The Apparent Garden

We've finally finished up a bit of work outside that we've been going at on and off for awhile. It started off with getting some trees removed a long time ago, and then we got busy with weddings, vacation, work, and everything else. But we're finally at a point that's far enough along to warrant a blog post. And this is probably as far as we'll go this summer, especially considering summer is almost over.

First thing to do once the trees were removed was to dig out the area. It had been a raised bed and there was a lot of dirt piled in there. We're going for a different look, so we needed to get it leveled out a bit.

Before (although we had already removed the retaining wall blocks)

After

After that we lined the bed with edgers. We picked these up from Menards during a sale awhile back and they look pretty neat if I do say so myself.

Then the main event. We had seen a picture of someone's garden where they had used a trellis type structure to hold potted herbs. This seemed like such a neat idea that we wanted to replicated it in a way. So we've put up our own trellis panel and plan on hanging a bunch of potted edibles from it in the spring. Since it's out on this side of the house it should be easily accessible to our neighbors as well. Usually people only need a sprig of this or a few leaves of that, so we can allow others in the area to come grab whatever they need from our wall of plants.

We'll also plant some less functional but more aesthetically pleasing plants (called flowers, I hear) in the bed and make it look all nice and whatnot. But again, it's pretty late in the season so we'll probably just wait until spring. That also gives us time to figure out exactly what we want where.

That's all folks. Thanks for reading and we'll see you next week!