I'll post them if you want to email them to me.

pm me

I use tomato cages and a piece of rebar and they still fall over on occasion.

O.K. you are excused.

A good use for an otherwise waste of space...



Im going to plant watermelons there after this weekend.

How many bags of garden soil would it take for a 8x4 raised bed garden? I see alot of people using 12" boards but dang that seems like alot of bags of soil and money. I was thinking about an 8" raised bed. Can you reuse the same soil each year?. Can anybody reccommend how many plants to plant per person? It would only be me and my wife eating the veggies.

Most bags are 1-3 cubic feet. It would be cheaper to get top soil dropped in a trailer or truck bed.

Depends on what you want to grow and if you are going to can some of the harvest.


Looks good phat, how much sunlight gets under there?

My beds are 8x12x10". I tore out another old raised bed and used that soil to fill about 1/4 of the bed. I then bought a yard (6' truck bed) of compost and that pretty much filled it up.

An 8'x4'x8" bed is about .8 yards or 21 cubic feet

This is from last year's garden;

Got any pics of the garden Bill?

I just got my laptop back. I have to reinstall my camera whatever tomorrow. I'll try to get one and post it up.

Thanks, It still gets a good amount of light. In the summer months the play set provides a decent amount of shade in the afternoon. I figured it would be good for the melons. If i need to add some shade i still have the old screens off our windows that we replaced with solar screens.

I was getting a good mix of soil @ $2 per 40lb bag at this place in Aubrey on HWY 380. There prices on other stuff is good too. What I put out today was 4 bags and its about 4" deep.

Okay here you go;



here's almost full view;

Celebrity?

Do you have any pics of the whole garden?

How big is your garden?

Looks good

I just took those two pictures this morning. Those are celebrity tomatoes. I have a sick wife, and cut way back on my garden. It was 40 feet by 40 feet. I gave a third of it to my neighbor. I now only have five 40 foot rows. I have 24 tomato plants,
about the same for potatoes, and peppers. I have squash, cucumbers, and basil at the ends of the rows.

Do you can?

Found a old horse trough out near our hunting lease and turned it into a planter with cacti, succulents and sedum.

pretty cool there

Very nice amigo......might have to borrow that idea from you

you guys have some good set ups, makes my little contain stuff sad

pretty neat Adv

Wouldn't worry about that Hooligan, I grew in 5 gallon buckets when I lived in an apartment.

The only canning I do is 24 pints of salsa each year, plus a little chow-chow aka green tomato relish. This picture is of my layout before putting up 8 pints of salsa;

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I also freeze around 30 pints of marinara, and maybe a little creole sauce for shrimp.

Looks good

Hey Bill....