Beastly Bush!

We have this wild rose bush that grows on the corner of our house. We have to cut it back all the time and when we don't it grows huge and wild..hence the name wild rose bush huh?! We bought a cheap $10 trellis from Walmart, but the beast of a bush knocked it down. We knew then that we needed a stronger, more durable trellis.

We looked at them, but I was not about to pay $50 dollars for one. We had a broken screen door that was just sitting there and one day I actually "looked" at it and noticed that the wrought iron decorative piece would be a great trellis.

Soo with the help of my awesome hubby we dug two holes and placed two pressure treated 4x4's in the ground and cemented them in. Then we just drilled the decorative piece right on the wood. Total cost: $20. Total time: 3 hours. 

Take that beastly bush!!!

Square Foot Garden!

I wanted to show you all my square foot garden. You see those ones out there made out of wood, but I wanted to be different. I needed  a garden box where I don't have to bend over cause, well, I don't want to hurt my back and plus I am way too big to get down on my knees. So I thought and thought and finally it came to me.... a garage door! One panel of garage door hit me at the knee..  yes, I am that short! 

before...

After!

We had a 16 foot door panel that we cut into fourths. My wonderful hubby also cut a pressure treated 4x4 into fourths also. We then drilled the door onto the 4x4's leaving about 6 inches of the 4x4 out of the bottom. Then we dug wholes in the yard where we wanted to put the garden, put the 4x4's in the whole and then filled the garden half way up with dirt.
 We have 2 huge mounds of dirt in the backyard so finding dirt was easy peasy. We filled the rest of it up with garden grow planting soil and then planted our tomatoes and cumcumbers!
Now we just need to find a few more garage doors for the rest of my veggies!