(04-21-2023, 09:18 PM)Bally002 Wrote:(04-21-2023, 09:10 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: It turns out I have a garden of different garden beds. This was not the plan but just how it has worked out. Someone is getting rid of something, I swipe it up, and it becomes a garden bed. Nothing is planted yet as you can still see some snow from our last storm.
This is my potato bed. It grows enough potatoes to last us as long as they last in cool/dry storage. Originally the blocks which make up the holding crib were from a demolished silo. Matter of fact, they are very old. Ceramic. Some people pay a lot of money for them and use them decoratively in their house.
This is two beds actually. The big one in the back came from a masonry demolition dump. The cinder blocks are all different sizes and I used landscape adhesive to keep them together. Mortar would have made a neater appearance but the gaps in the bricks allow water to drain naturally. I don't end up with a giant tub of mud. The red bricks on the top came from old fire chimney's on a nearby military installation. The little one in front went in the last two years. They are timbers reclaimed from highway/freeway maintenance. They big posts that hold up guard rails and such. They are just sitting on top of each other. Nothing connects them except for their own weight.
This is my wife's flower bed. It really helps bring in the bees. I got the stone from a road cut near our house. Just drove the tractor with the trailer up there and filled it up. I would do it differently if there is a next time. This was my first one.
This is the latest addition. There are four of them. Sort of reminiscent of waddle and dab. We had a lot of wet, heavy snow this winter and lost a lot of Box Elder. It isn't much good for firewood but I will give these a whirl. They should be pretty good with vine things. Or at least I can keep vine things out of everything else.
They're really nice looking garden beds. A lot of work gone into them.
I hope you'll post some pics of the vege and flowers later on.
Fine work mate.
Regards,
Bally)
Thank you. Very kind. Yes, I agree right now the garden pics are not very sexy. They have been beat down by months of winter. However, I will try to remember to send some pics when everything is going well at the end of summer.