With lessons learned from last year’s garden issues my brother and I this winter came to the same conclusions.
1) raised beds to avoid bending
2) with mulch to keep the weeds down
3) on a surface that wont grow more damn weeds
He decided to start his on the deck in pots, and I ordered some metal bed kits from Vego Garden. They got here in mid June, when work was crazy, so I only just got the area leveled and covered with the black plastic we had around.
Now I need to figure out what goes where BEFORE the dirt goes in.
1) The beds are huge. four foot by six and a half. (1.2m by 1.8m).
2) I also got a round bed that looked small. It is three and a half feet across. (1m).
3) when we leveled the area it sunk about a foot in some places (15cm) so everything has to fit within that without any fudging on the edges. (at least until I can dig it out some more, which might be a next year project.)
4) most importantly, I want the huge arch they make between the two large beds at some point. That means the two beds need to be four and a half feet apart. (1.3m)
5) there is a huge rip in the plastic already and I’d rather have one of the beds over it.
After all of this fuss I went out and moved things until I liked it.
Photo of dark green metal garden beds in dappled light. They do not have much dirt in them. They are on black plastic that is wrinkled and held down with bricks every now and then. The black plastic is right up against a sparse metal fence with weeds and flowers growing through it. There is mowed grass and a pile of logs in the background on the same side of the fence as the beds. /end ID.
