The Garden-

This year, thanks to Pintrest, we have found a way to create new and improved raised garden beds to help keep critters out, and increase the amount of growing space around our garden.  These are made from pallets that we get for free.  the pallets are 50"x30" and is put together with screws and plates.  The cost of materials is about $3.00 each and they take about 10 minutes per box.

This gives us the ability to grow lettuce and other "desirable" plants away from those pesky rabbits.  The pallets should last about 5-7 years, and will be easy to change.  As you can see we add a floor to the box, this way we do not have to fill it with dirt, the one completed box took almost a yard of dirt/compost mix to fill, so if you multiple that by 12-15 boxes, that's a lot of dirt.

This is the "holding bin" or the first of three compost bins that we will be putting together.  Right now it is full of horse manure, which we got for....you guessed it FREE.  It was well seasoned, and will break down really nice for next spring.  Right now, including gas we have about $60.00 in to the whole project, which is not bad considering that it will increase the output of the garden by about 200% when done.  It is amazing the ideas that you can get from that stupid web site Pintrest.  But it is easy to put together and looks really nice when looking from the house.  When everything is done, it will also provide a fence to help keep the dogs, rabbits, deer etc from helping themselves.

If you are interested in more technical information, just email me, and I would be happy to give it to you.
It is amazing what you can do with just a couple of bucks a little sweat, and some imagination.

Be good to one another because in reality that's all we got.