Yes, it is! My husband did a fabulous job on the three raised garden beds! He finished them last week, and then we (or he because I didn’t do a good job the first time) leveled out the garden enclosure and placed the three beds in their new home.
On Tuesday, I ordered compost loam from a local farm — 3 yards! They showed up same day with a cool dump truck! And dropped the loam in our driveway (don’t worry, we told them too.):
Look at all that dirt! My husband gets annoyed when I call it “dirt”, but that’s what it is. He also gets annoyed when I refer to our town’s recycling/compost center as the “dump”, but dude, that’s what it is, call it by it’s right name!
Next, we needed to buy a wheelbarrow to lug the dirt, excuse me loan, from our driveway into the backyard garden enclosure. Did you know that you can’t purchase an already assembled wheelbarrow from Lowe’s or Home Depot? Well, neither did we. So my husband bought the wheelbarrow on Tuesday afternoon and spend a really long time putting it together — he even had to go back to the store and purchase an extra bolt because he was short one. It was certainly a fun experience for him putting this wheelbarrow together! There was a fingernail accident that he doesn’t want me to mention, so I’ll leave it at that.
On Wednesday, with the wheelbarrow assembled, he started lugging the loam from the driveway into the backyard. He had to make a ton of trips! Three yards is a lot of dirt! Um, loam.
He had attached chicken wire to the bottom of the raised beds in hopes that those darn oak tree roots don’t find their way into my garden beds again this year:
Look at that chicken wire! Hopefully it will do the trick!
He lugged a bunch of loads into the garden yesterday and I broke up the big clumps with a rake and spread them throughout the beds. We (he) finished lugging all the dirt this afternoon, and it looks amazing!
I am going to have SO much room to grow vegetables this year! I already have some seeds and if the weather is nice tomorrow afternoon, I am going to start planting! My husband told me he expects a bumper crop this year. That’s certainly a lot of pressure for me. Hopefully the new beds and better soil will work well and I’ll grow some awesome veggies! And the weather will continue to get better!
Notes from a Self Quarantine 