last night we moved the filing cabinet raised bed from the garage to the side garden…
today on this beautiful, mostly sunny, day, I lifted and repositioned a number of the rocks in that area to sit around it… some of them were rather large and heavy, lol… I have collected them from all over Manitoba…
I think the area looks good and plan on filling the raised bed with bits of wood and soil to get it ready for spring…
recently I’ve been on a roll with construction… yesterday I spent time in the garage working on the new filing cabinet raised planter…
I saw something on social media where someone used old filing cabinets to make raised flower beds… seemed like a great idea and I had a four drawer filing cabinet in the basement that needed to be cleaned out…
last week my grandson and his friend removed the drawers – which I still have to empty – and took the cabinet outside…
they put a number of holes in the new bottom to provide drainage… the metal was really thick and it took a while to produce the holes…
it was a very sad brown colour, so he spray painted it a lovely shade of gray and set it inside the garage to cure…
yesterday I dug out various bits and pieces of insulation which I cut to size and put all around the inside… and I knew where all the things I needed were, lol…
now it needs one more coat of paint before moving into the shade garden and getting filled with soil so it will be ready for spring planting…
the space in the garden is all ready… the guys had already removed the old leaking pond and filled that spot in with wood and dirt…
the other day I took a photo of some beautiful Virginia creeper berries… they were climbing on the cedars on the back lane side of the garden and were a bright purple…
today I spotted these red berries in amongst the lily of the valley…
I’ve never seen berries on lily of the valley before…