Building Planting Boxes
May 2010
Executive summary: From start to finish, building the planting boxes
required about 100 4inx4inx8ft logs, 500 6in nails and it took a little
under 45 hours to assemble. I also had to build a small step between
the South end of the backyard (on the side of the garage), and the
North end of it.
I mostly followed the plans, with only a couple of adjustements here
and there.
The area around the garage was actually mostly gravel. I first tried
making it work, but in the end I spent the money to get rid of it.
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7 or so yards of gravely material being picked up after removal.
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9 yards of replacement soil to be wheelbarrrow'ed over and then spread-out,
leveled-out, and compacted down. This is when I discovered that the
backyard is not flat. It has a downward slope (grrrr!).
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2 weeks after replacing the soil, the grass seeds have done well,
and the logs were delivered.
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Working in the light rain, lining the inside of the boxes first with
plastic (6mil vapor barrier) and then with weed-block (protection
against sharp shorvels)...
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Getting the soil delivered "blown in"...
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Final result (front yard) |
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