Day 11: Boxing

We absolutely took advantage of the gorgeous, near-70 weather on Wednesday and built the outdoor boxes to get an idea of spacing. We revisited the impossibly hard wood and contributed to our carpal tunnel issues with the 18V drill, trying to get 3 deck screws in each end of the box.



There are two boxes in front of our deck...



...and one against our fence. This one gets less sun (what would be considered "partial sun", ie less than 6 hours a day), so our partial sun veggies will be going in here. The front of the deck is full-blast sun from dawn til dusk. This definitely helped dictate what kinds of veggies we planned on growing.



And now, a brief reminder of why we're going the raised bed route. See all that dirt over yonder? See how red it is? That's Virgina clay. The only thing that stuff is good for is making terra cotta pots (which could be another blog in an of itself).



A completed box! We built them with rotating edges for a sturdier, truer square. There are definitely no action shots this time because it took everything both of us had to get 3 1/2" screws through these boards while holding the corners square.



Et voila, the finished boxes, roughly in their resting places. This weekend we've suckered, er, nicely asked some friends to come over to help us complete the boxes with drainage stone, weed shielding, and hopefully soil!