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Jan 10, 2018 2:29 PM CST
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Before and after threads are always so fun!!

I started my garden here in 2011 on 1/2 acre after moving 600 potted plants from my crammed city lot.

Before and afters (these afters are from 2015):

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We added a large storage shed, this only shows 1/2 of it.
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To the existing bench we added a pergola using a free recycled satellite dish
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Below is summer 2015
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2017 summer, (a beautiful coop and chickens are also part of the garden):
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Hubby built raised beds (to keep out gophers) for veggies.
One corner was planted with a climbing rose.
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Used collected rocks and clay pipes to build retaining walls
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You can see the entire progress posts in my blog here on NGA, link in my signature, most recent posts shown, just start from the oldest page first by scrolling down to the bottom.


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