We have three palm trees at Laikaland. Two trees beautifully placed in the front, and one random one in the back. If it wasn't there I would vote for a hot tub, but between that stupid pretty tree and the gas tank, there wasn't much to do in this 12'x12' space in the backyard. We toyed around with the idea of a pergola accenting the palm tree, but that probably wouldn't have worked out. We finally decided to work around our obstacles and going with raised garden beds for herbs and vegetables.
For those who have been shopping around Home Depot and Lowe's over the last couple of weeks, if you live up North and you haven't started planting yet, I hope I have given you the tools you need to not spend 400 bucks on stupid pre-built raised beds. I saw those boxes advertised during Home Depot's "Spring Black Friday" sale- waste.
We found them on sale at lowes for $1/8ft board. We bought 30 of them and some 2x8 stakes. Cut them to size ourselves and made boxes. Then we bought liner and stapled it to the sides to prevent weeds and seepage. This took us maybe 2 hours total to make. We filled the bottoms of the boxes with top soil, mixed in peat moss, and bought garden soil for the top. (Again, 5/$10, can't beat it).
Most of these projects I wait until we've finished until I post a blog (And some I just haven't had the time to sit down and enter..) but I wanted to show everyone what you can do with some picket fencing wood and some good ol' hard work. ANDDD if something happens and we need to replace a piece of the boxes, WHO CARES. It's PICKET FENCING! THEY'RE A DOLLAR! Cedar is EXPENSIVE!
We also found a rain water holder at Sam's Club for 70 bucks. We cut and connected the back gutter with a flexible gutter so the rain water goes straight into the holder. Has two spouts to connect a hose and a watering can. I really thought this was genius, but we'll see when the water bill arrives. (The bench connected to the herb bed, just to throw it in there, was totally my idea :D )
Boyfriend of the Year also dug up every sprinkler and capped some/fixed some to utilize our water flow. Master's degree what? Guy needs to be fixing stuff because he's so damn good at it. Again, keeping.
In the front of the house, all I needed was a hedger for the bushes, some black mulch and a few plants for color for the mailbox. It's not yard of the year yet, but it could be in time. :)
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