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posted by Erin @ The Impatient Gardener at
10:06 AM
Welcome to the Impatient Gardener. I'm Erin and the title about says it all. I'm always striving for ways to get Mother Nature to hurry up in my Wisconsin zone 5 garden, yet I know sometimes it's best to sit back and just enjoy the ride. In my real life I'm an editor of a magazine, an avid racing sailor and the owner of two very large Newfoundland dogs who I love to work with. All of which means, like many people, I garden when I can. And just because there's not enough time in the day, that doesn't mean I'm not constantly taking on new gardening projects. Call it HGTV Syndrome: The belief that anything can get accomplished in 30 minutes or less. It can't, of course, but it sure is fun trying.
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Great set up! Lettuce is looking great!
This was linked under your bloom day post. I WANT YOUR VEGGIE GARDEN. What a cute setup! How much dirt did it take?
Jennah,
That's a really good question. The beds themselves are 30" deep and filled up the bottoms of them with anything organic I could find: leaves, pine boughs, sticks from around the yard, most of the unfinished stuff from the compost pile. After that I think I put in a total of 7 yards of topsoil and blended compost and it settled a lot throughout the summer. The dirt was by far the biggest expense. But I have to say, after gardening in it all summer, it's the best veggie set-up ever. The critters can't get at it, no bending over and just the right amount of space to feed two of us (with some extras to share). The only thing I'd like to do in the future is do a separate raised bed for onions, because I really enjoyed growing those last year and they take up a lot of room.
I know I'm fairly late to this party, but how did you make this wonderful garden space? My kids and I are looking for something relatively easy to manage, and since I have serious back problems, not having to bend over would be wonderful! We've been contemplating using the now-empty pigpen (we're building a new one a bit further from the house, and closer to the barn, for next show season) but the thought of all that bending really doesn't fill me with excitement. I would love to know how you made this! 😊
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