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Finally Finished Raised Bed

Since I had no idea of what the heck I was doing, this took several weekends to complete, LOL..

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It's cedar boards on top of stone landscaping blocks. Total depth about 20 inches. Next time, I will not mix materials; it will be either all stone or all boards. Getting the boards to sit right on the stone was a pain, and it still was not as perfect as I would have liked. My back told me after a while that it was good enough though, so I finally listened.

My big pot of homemade compost that I was making for the raised bed was a bust; I had been saving coffee grounds all winter and throwing them into a big pot of dirt, only to find this weekend that it had become home to a colony of pavement ants. I didn't want to add ants to my raised bed (although I know they might find it eventually by themselves), so I dumped out the beautiful compost.

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