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My Garden from the Ground Up

These photos give you an idea of how I started my garden from the very beginning.  My husband and I worked endlessly at creating it, and we did every bit of the work with the exception of the pavers which we did hire someone out to do.  After doing some research it was just way to complicated and time consuming for us to do alone.  Glad we had that bit of the garden done by someone else too, as it was during the middle of summer, and excruciatingly HOT!  Hope you enjoy this compilation of garden photos.

These are the fence pieces that I purchased.  We completely disassembled them, cut them down, created the scallop, re-assembled and stained them white.  PHEW what a job that was.  Of course when we put them back together again, we reenforced them better than the original boards, because of the hot humid weather here in FL, I didn't want to risk warping of the fence pieces.  Each piece has approximately 4 screws in them, two top and two bottom.

Creation of the scalloped look.

More fence building pictures.  

I had just turned the beds from original position, and waited until the right lower hand corner bed was finished producing before moving it.  It took quite a bit of grading, raking and pulling grass to keep the weeds from popping back up in the dirt, but I managed with some help of round-up :-)





I placed thick double layer plastic under the raised beds, and solarized the soil during the hottest part of summer.  I kept the plastic very tight, and attempted to keep it sealed as best as I could.  This is to help with nematodes, and other diseases and pests by essentially baking them.  According to the UF website, the heat of the sun can penetrate up to 6" in the soil.  I did this BEFORE placing the good soil in the boxes.

Beginning of the paved walkway to the garden.