Our Week-End Project

Bonnie decided to grow herbs last year and she grew them in containers. They started out pretty good but soon became root bound due to the size of the containers. Didn't expect them to grow as good as they did. She decided that this year we would make a little raised bed for her herbs. I decided that I would get in on the action and plant a few tomatoes and some peppers. Don't want to do the whole garden thing as I grew up with huge gardens and know how much work there is to have a good one. Besides the deer would eat up everything in sight. This is the final product....

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Here is the rest of the pictures. We have jalapeno, banana pepper, cayenne, tomatoes, bell peppers, green, red, orange and yellow, few squash. As for the herbs, we have oregano, thyme, several varieties of basil, chives, sage, rosemary, dill, parsley and marjoram.

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Looking good on the garden project, if we get some rain tonight I'll start on mine this week. James

Nice looking garden project. Where did you get the slotted posts and boards? Are the boards 1x6 or 1x8? Did you make the slotted posts? I have never seen anything like them in a store before. Thanks for helping out with any information.

Looking good, post some picks as it grows. Gona be some serious eatin goin on before long. LoL

Looks good, enjoy. Jim

Nice garden Rick! Dirt won't pack down and good drainage. I'm not much of a gardener, but I tried it a couple of years. A good friend (and master gardener) told me about square foot gardening, which is the same thing you did, but I used landscape timbers stacked 2 high. Works well if you have time to take care of it. We did tomatoes, peppers, carrots, cucumbers...actually got some seed peanuts from a relative and grew some peanuts in it the second year. Hope you and Mrs. Bonnie have a lot of fun with it!

Looks good Rick!Thumbs Up Let me know when them maters are ready and I'll come visit with a loaf of bread, mayo and black pepper!:D

Looks good Rick. One of my favorite hobbies is vegetable/herb gardening. Finished mine a couple of weeks ago. Had to replace a few items due to hail damage from a massive storm. Thanks for the pics. Next time you go fishing, get some worms to put into that bed - works wonders!

Darn, those plants may well have flash burn from all the photos. Hope the garden does well.

Used the flash to try and jump start the growth....

Looks good Rick... I didn't even plant one this year, didn't feel like doing all the work either..lol

Lots of work but the wife will enjoy it now. Congrats.:)

Take those banana peppers split them down one side, clean them out and stuff them with Italian Sausage (just the meat no casing), throw that on the pit. Man you talk about good!!