We decided we would be brave and build our planting boxes ourselves. Armed with our copy of the All New Square Foot Gardening Book by Mel Bartholomew we headed off to the Home Depot.
I normally cringe at the thought of bringing an almost 2 and 4 year old to the Home Depot, our trips usually end up with tears, tantrums and Mommy doing her best to at least appear to be a Mom who has it together. I have to say the boys were great, an ice-cream bribe does wonders (note to self).
So lucky for us Cedar lumber was on sale this weekend - 50 % off - so our project ended up costing us half of what we thought it would. We went with 12x6x2 boards and thankfully the store will cut them for you, so we ended up with enough lumber for 2 8x4 boxes. We also purchased some inexpensive (.99 ea.) thin pieces of spruce to form our grid (see later pics) and some landscaping fabric. A quick trip through the Garden Centre also yielded 2 broccoli plants, a flat of sweet corn and some cumcumber plants.
We had great intentions of getting the boxes built, filled with soil and then filled with our new plants - where did the day go?! Well the boxes did get built, but once we determined how much soil we needed to fill them we realized that it would have to wait another day.
So the day was not a total bust and it gives us all time to ponder what vegetables are now going to fill these boxes and more time to convince Liam that we will not be planting sausages!
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