Posts Tagged ‘raised beds’

made the mistake of praying for patience


2010
07.20

The destroyed raised bedIn the previous entry I lamented the problems of the dog running through the new raised bed.  On second thought, I kinda wish that was all he did, but a few days later and this is what I woke up to.  As you can see I did end up with a picket fence panel on one end, unfortunately it wasn’t enough to stop the bed from being completely dug up.

As if that was not bad enough I awoke this morning to the same dog digging his way underneath the brand new chickgloo (chicken tractor) that is home to the week old chicks recently purchased to be raised for meat.  There were 25 of them until this morning, and now there are 20.

Here’s the chickgloo yesterday:

the chickgloo

And here’s one of the chicks.  His name is Pecker:

 Pecker

Don’t pray for patience.  Just don’t.

God, Grant Me the Serenity…


2010
07.16

Recently constructed the first of a series of raised beds in my courtyard using reclaimed cedar beams and the results are amazing so far.  Truly rock star quality.

Here’s a closeup of the newly planted basil in the bed:


Then when I walked out with my morning cuppa, I was greeted with this:

Those are big paw prints from one end of the bed to the other.  Right through my carrot and radish seeds.  No, the canine responsible for this has not been harmed in any way thanks in so small part to the fact that I have the Serenity Prayer firmly implanted in my memory.

To hopefully put a stop to this behavior I’ll be cutting down a leftover picket fencing panel and affixing it to one end of the bed. This will give me something to use as a base for a clematis that I rooted last month.