I have a raised bed at the back of my back yard. The landscape timbers they used to build it 25+ years ago have succumbed to the elements/termites and are crumbling. Aha! Says I to myself. Instead of just putting new timbers directly in front of the old ones, I can enlarge the bed and make it a little higher as well. It's currently 2 landscape timbers high - I plan to make it 3. Yes, it's pressure treated lumber, but this isn't food gardening, so I'm not all that concerned.
The expanded portion will be approx 5x40, maybe 8x40, and it's hard-packed red GA clay. I've got a couple brush piles I can raid, and some rotting firewood logs that came with the house and were already too crappy to burn, as well as some 2x4s from when I tore a wall out of the house.
Below is a very rough sketch (not to any kind of scale). The first 2 rows are the existing bed. I want to put a little entry area (that's the cut-out) about halfway along. It would be 8x3, if I measured properly (always a chancy proposition).
Here's how it currently looks. The "lame" border fence is to keep the greyhounds out of it. Thank goodness they don't know they could jump it if they wanted to:
Projects like this are interesting, since my only method of transportation is a PT Cruiser. Here's the first load of landscape timbers...
It's absolutely amazing what one can fit in the back of a PT Cruiser, isn't it? Twelve full-size landscape timbers, and ten more that were cut at the five-foot mark, so a combination of five-foot and three-foot pieces there. I was able to close the hatch, and drive home from the big box store with no issues. That said, I'm VERY grateful the big box store is only 3miles from home, all back roads. Once home, I had to unload these and go back for the other dozen full-size ones.
Here's the stack, almost complete:
Now I just need to move them from the driveway to the back yard, and start putting them together. That's for tomorrow, though, after the dogs move to their vacation home for a couple days.
After unloading the car, I called my massage therapist - will be seeing her tomorrow as well. It's a simple fact -- if I keep my back happy, it keeps me happy.
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