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Year zero of my front yard potager

Posted by emcalister1 7 (My Page) on
Sun, Mar 22, 09 at 21:27

Per a request made on my Year 2 post I'm posting the pics I took when I first built my potager. I built the potager in the midst of the building boom and was able to pick up a huge quantity of 2x12 boards from a builder for super cheap. I joined the boards with short 2x4 cedar. I also ran cedar 2x4s to strengthen the sides:

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I first turned over the grass of the lawn so the dirt was facing up. Then I laid down newspaper 2 sheets thick, overlapping one page of the two page spread. That made a 4 page thickness throughout.
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Then I put dirt down on top - I had ordered a truckload of topsoil before.
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Here's a shot of the entrance before I put the entrance trellises in.

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Finally a shot of the construction of the trellises.
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RE: Year zero of my front yard potager

  • Posted by memo Zone 4B Nebraska (My Page) on
    Thu, Mar 26, 09 at 23:35

EMCalister, You've created a beautiful garden and I am so happy that you finished the trellis' in time that we could see those roses along the front edge blooming. How pretty they are! The trellis' are fantastic. You are very talented!

MeMo


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RE: Year zero of my front yard potager

  • Posted by jnfr z5b CO (My Page) on
    Wed, Apr 8, 09 at 17:29

Thanks for posting this! It's so interesting to see the progression.


 
 

 

 


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