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23 Jul ’12 - 5:59 pm

Today's project was putting together my 2nd square foot garden bed. I started by grabbing my tools, basically a shovel, some kind of hoe type instrument, and a sledgehammer for stakes. I hammered in stakes to mark the perimeter of the bed and used the hoe to make a cut out.

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23 Jul ’12 - 6:03 pm

After I finished that I realized I didn't have enough materials so I headed to Redneck Home Depot, conveniently located behind my house.

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23 Jul ’12 - 6:04 pm

No sooner had I gotten back and laid the first board, then my foreman comes out to make sure everything was level

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23 Jul ’12 - 6:08 pm

I guess it was all ok tho because he let me finish the day up, and it all worked out!

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23 Jul ’12 - 6:12 pm

Gonna drop the center board in tomorrow and then haul up some manure from the pastures down the hill. I think there's a bed of compost right next to the bed I might use too.

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23 Jul ’12 - 9:47 pm

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Quote from DangerDuke on July 23, 2012, 18:04

No sooner had I gotten back and laid the first board, then my foreman comes out to make sure everything was level

He can be a good little worker!

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23 Jul ’12 - 9:49 pm

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Quote from DangerDuke on July 23, 2012, 18:08

I guess it was all ok tho because he let me finish the day up, and it all worked out!

Those are awfully nice boards!

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29 Jul ’12 - 7:23 pm

So it was pretty rainy for the last few days, and I was caught up with some other housework, but today it was sunny (and I had some help) so I figured it was a good day to finish up my garden bed. The soil we have here has a lot of clay in it, and I noticed during the rains it was holding a lot of water. So I decided to start my day by poking some drainage holes in the beds. I basically dropped one in for every grid square so the drainage would be equal.