Moving Dirt And Assembling Birdies Raised Metal Garden Beds

It’s been pretty busy around here the past few days, moving dirt and assembling the Birdies raised metal garden beds for the garden.

I thought 20 yards of fresh garden soil would be enough to amend the HUGE garden we have planned for this year, but sadly, I was wrong. I ordered another 10 yards, and it should be delivered today.

If we had a normal sized garden I could have gone the cardboard, grass clippings, compost and seaweed route… But oh no… The HH thought bigger would be better and now we have this ginormous religious family sized garden plot to plant. 

I keep telling him that if we are going to have a garden this big that I’m going to need a greenhouse… And I think it’s starting to sink in.

After all, one can only handle their family room {and their dining room} looking like a garden center for so long. I think the 200+ tomato and pepper plants along with all the herbs and trays of plant starts are finally starting to get to him.  

Which is a good thing!

After play time with the tractor was over the HH got to work on the Birdies beds I had ordered. 

I had seen them online a few months ago and finally decided to take the plunge and invest in a few, and let me tell you Bob, they are VERY well made and we were both impressed with the quality.

They offer all different shapes and heights of garden beds, and I went with a pair of the Tall 8-in-1 Metal Raised Garden Beds. What’s cool about the beds I choose is that you can assemble them into 8 different shapes.

At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted super long garden beds… But as the HH started putting one together I quickly knew I wanted them to be the more traditional 4×6 size.

Assembly was straightforward and the HH had them put them together pretty quick.

Now I just need a finished garden space to put them in!  Or a greenhouse.

In other news… I started hardening off my tomato, pepper and herb plants. {And the cabbage and broccoli starts as well!}

Yesterday I set them outside for 2 hours. Today I’ll put them out there for 4 hours. I’m hoping to have them in the ground by the end of the weekend {The Girl said she’d come over and help me plant}.

The Duck Lady asked me if I wanted her extra leek and onion seedlings. I said yes of course because I’ll have so much space to plant here in a few more days that I may have to think about starting a pumpkin farm.

I also ordered some Shasta daisy and purple coneflower seeds from Etsy, and those arrived. I planted the Shasta daisy seeds last night and I’ll plant the purple coneflower in the fall.

I also placed my order for {most of} next year’s seeds from Botanical Interests as they are having a 40% off sale right now {plus you can get a 10% off code if you click the box on the bottom left of their page so it’s really like you’re getting 50% off!!!}.

What can I say? On one hand it looks like nothing is going on here, but on the other hand I know that in another week or two everything will be planted and we’ll be in full on gardening mode. 

Yee-Haw! It’s time to get growing. 

I love this time of year.  

~Mavis

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Through May 29th, 2023 you can Buy 3 Birdies Beds, get 1 of equal or lesser value for FREE {and they ship for free!}.  Plus, if you are still in need of some garden seeds, Botanical Interests is having a 40% off sale on over 300+ seed varieties through the 29th as well.

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