For my birthday this year, Jason rented a tractor and got busy on our landscaping and gardening projects!
Hooray for progress!
Tearing out junipers on the side--carefully--due to buried cables.
Drains put in on upper 2 levels, and gravel base.
Garden side-view: ready for wall-building.
Blocks!
2 kinds of gravel for backfill and drainage.
The blocks delivered to the back yard.
Building the walls.
50/50 topsoil and compost mix to fill the boxes up, once they're done.
He also got a load of potting soil to use as the top layer.
And I bought some gypsum to sprinkle onto the clay bed first, to help break it up.
I think our vegetables are going to do really well!
As far as we got that day.
Closer view.
We will probably add one more row of blocks to the top terrace's wall.
The steps up the sides are intentional.
The plan is for the soil to be about a foot deep.
Now we need to finish the top terrace's side and build the bottom-level wall, so we can fill the top two beds. J will probably rent another tractor--smaller, this time--to bring dirt up from the front to the back. The bottom bed can then be finished (sides and front) and filled.
We've still got a good 2 weeks until last frost date, so we're hoping to get this done in time for warm-weather veggies!
It's going to look really nice. It may never pay itself off in vegetables, though! Although, I will do all I can to preserve the harvest each year. Maybe it will pay for itself when we go to sell the house someday...we can hope!
