Surprise! It is back. Yuck! This past weekend gave me seriously false hope that spring was indeed on its way. We even went so far as identifying where in our yard the veggie garden is going to be and did some online research on how to build raised bed planters.
Costco.ca seems to have an interesting product, the Scenery Solutions Frame-it-All System Raised Garden Bed Kit (wow that's a mouthful!). Now we just need to decide if we order two of the kits or bravely try to build something ourselves without spending more time/money than we would on the kits - all very confusing.
I was also happy to discover during my online research that we are not going to have to dig up the ground, which for anyone who is familiar with Burlington knows, is solid clay, and an absolute nightmare to dig. I found this great site that gives step-by-step instructions on how to build a "lasagna" garden, http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/, looks like we can avoid digging by layering cardboard, wet newspaper, hay and soil/manure - which is absolute music to my ears!
So the snow has delayed us a wee bit, but I am actually thankful that it provides me with a little extra time to decide exactly what we are going to do.
Just get Glenn to pick up a whack of railway tie style posts, and build it, will take him 2 hours. You're doing above ground right? Ours is about 8 x 3, WAY TOO SMALL to be productive, wish we'd gone double the length. We now have about 6 bucket planters too. One day we'll take it up and rebuild about 16 by 4. There's a good site too that will generate a plotting layout for you based on what you want to grow, and what plant compliments another one's growth. Also, count on two deliveries of those big bags of soil for an above ground- ours is maybe 1.5 feet high, and it took two!
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