Garden Project 2016 — Part 1

Reader Contribution by Allan Douglas
Published on September 30, 2016
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I have another major garden project underway now that the growing season is wrapping up. Here’s what I’m doing.

The Lower 10

Starting four years ago I began digging-in a whole mess of 4×4 raised bed boxes. I added some each year, and had 21 at the beginning of this year. I built three sections in my garden: The Lower 10, The Middle 10, and the Berry House. I did this because I live on a mountainside, and it seemed that digging these boxes into the slope would give me garden space that resisted being washed away with every rain. And that much of it worked. I was also enamored of the square-foot gardening method. That part didn’t work so well.

I made the boxes of untreated lumber because I didn’t want the P.T. stuff in my food. So they rotted after a few years, especially the ones up high where the rain water hits them hardest as it rolls down the slope. One of my foster dogs developed a penchant for ripping up rotted wood, so any boxes that were pretending to be hanging on got demolished last month.

The Middle 10

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