How to Make a Raised Garden

By Owen and Alma Mayor - deseret Ward Welfare Specialists

1. Raised Gardens

It is still the summer season. Summer vegetables can still be sown. We are on our third planting of lettuce and will be ready to plant more cauli's and broccolli in the next few weeks. We have also recently planted our second lot of tomatoes and beans. The message is that if you do not have a garden then make a start. The following is a cheap (free) and easy way to make a small raised garden.

Aim: Make a small raised gardens.

Equipment:

· One free pellet

· Hammer

· Crowbar

· Saw

Method:

1. Take one pellet.

2. Carefully dismantle the pellet with a crow bar. Remove the nails. These can be reused for making the raised garden. Try to keep the strips of wood in one piece.

3. Cut one strip of wood in half. These will become the ends of the two raised gardens as seen in the illustration below. Nail two long wood strips to one half size strip of wood .

4.Cut pieces of the thicker strips of the pellet frame to join the two ends of the raised garden frame together. If there are enough pieces of wood left over from the dismantled pellet then a second pellet can be made.

5. Place the frame where it will be placed in your yard and fill with a mix of soil and compost (old grass clippings and food scraps that have been left to form compost) or a cheap bag or two of compost from places like The Warehouse or Bunnings. I just used soil that was at the bottom of our compost heap to mix with the compost.

 

WALAHHHH!!!!! AS EASY AS 1..2..3. GARDEN FRAME COMPLETED. NOW YOU CAN PLANT. We planted strawberries in the two frames that we made from the one dismantled pellet.