I have been struggling with my strawberry bed. I used to have my strawberries on the south side of the garden but they got too much shade from the fruit trees so I moved them to the north side of the garden, where they got more sun, and they liked that better. But, strawberries like to run and I felt the need to contain them some how. I am a person that likes boundaries so I decided to build a slightly raised bed.
We used lumber from a barn that we are going to take down. Nice hefty boards from interior livestock stalls.
It took me two days, but I did this all by myself! Looking forward to harvesting gallons of berries in the future.
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| Again, in my quest for neat and tidy, this was not working for me! |
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| Construction in progress..... |
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| Strawberry plants in these five gallon buckets in water. |
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| Filling the sections with composted garden and yard trimmings. |
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| Berries planted, soaker hose in place. I know this stressed the plants, and this project really should have been done last fall. But, it's finished now. If I keep the plants wet they should recover. |
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