This year I hope to get a much better crop from our garden. Last year the deck was in this spot and we've had the garden in the south west corner. With the 15 foot cedars behind our house this meant it only really got sun in the morning. Not very good for a vegetable garden. Now that the deck is gone I was able to move it to a prime location. It should get sun almost all day and it will be easy to water now that it's closer to the house. It also frees up a spot for me to move the shed to. It's in the way of a retaining wall that needs replacing. (There's always a project waiting to be done.)
Construction was relatively straight forward. About $30.00 worth of 2x10's and some left over stain from the deck. Most of the soil came from the old garden or the compost pile. I had a pile of wood shavings from the planer that ordinarily I would compost but I figured I would just add it as the bottom layer. It's only about half an inch with another 8 inches of soil on top so it should have plenty of time to breakdown before it gets tilled up next year. The kids of course couldn't pass up a new way of getting dirty.
The concrete feet came with the house and I've used them for numerous purposes. Here they make a nice sturdy clean path. (Good thing considering the kids like to check out the seedlings every day.) It would have been good to get it planted about a week earlier. We had nice cool weather with just a light rain the week before while this week has been hot and sunny and it's been difficult to keep things damp. Hoping for potatoes, beans, lettuce, carrots, basil, chives, dill, radishes, tomatoes, broccoli, onions and strawberries. You can really pack a lot of food into a small space.
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