If you’re like me most of your garden projects you like to do yourself. If it involves moving large rocks or cutting down trees then I resort to the professionals. However there are many projects that you can tackle yourself.
Raised Beds: I’ve always liked raised beds and now that I am older I love being able to sit on the edge of one raised bed and work in the next raised bed. I also like the way they look, nice and neat! Our raised beds were completed last year. My husband put them together for me in the driveway and then they were moved down to the garden.
Tomato Cages: I am always trying to improve what we use to put around our tomatoes. One year my husband was so thoughtful and made all these neat tomato cages for me out of wire. They were perfect with only one problem; the wire was too small to get the tomatoes out of the cages! He had to cut the wire to make openings so I could actually pick the tomatoes!
Stone Walls: We have many rocks in our soil and we are constantly pulling rocks out of the garden. We have used those rocks to make various stonewalls, some walls are actually retaining walls and required help from a neighbor who had a tractor.
Other walls are more of the small garden edge wall variety, and I was able to put them together myself.
Fire Pits: We have also used rocks to build a simple fire pit. During the summer months we enjoy sitting around the bonfire with friends. By gathering large rocks we created a circle of rocks, which makes the perfect fire pit. Our fire pit is all ready for the first summer bonfire!
Compost Bins: compost bins are quite simple to make especially if you have access to pallets. We made a large three bin compost bin to help with the composting of the various garden matter and the chicken manure. We put it together in an afternoon. For more information see the post HERE.
Need more ideas? Search “Gardening Projects” on Pinterest and you will be busy all summer!
Nancy on the Home Front 