Remember me mentioning that OH just loves his beautiful lawn?? Yeah, right. I like lawn as much as everyone else, but not when I have a yard that is 150 feet by 90 feet with a tiny 48 square foot planter
:laughing2:Sure beats crying, lol.
I've actually thought about that but the soil there is dirt!! Like cement (pronounced sea-mint, lol) hard. He wouldn't do it unless I can show that I can keep up with what I have now. Said I was great with starting projects and then getting bored with them. Grrr.
The sprinkler system would have to be moved.
The ground tilled.
A load of topsoil put down and then the garden soil put on top of that.
It would need to be a raised bed as I just can't get down on my knees. Gotta be chair level and wood costs a lot.
In other words money is a factor.
I am actually thinking about getting a few tubs like you have
@Graywolf to grow vertical teepees for all vining crops; cucumbers, peas, pole beans, watermelon, cantaloupe and I can't think of others at this time. Since my family loves broccoli, there needs to be a lot of room for this - at least 10 to 20 plants.
This is my hope and dreams at least. My wifely plans are also using the land behind the planter as shown here:
This is also horrible ground. When we moved it in was covered in pea-gravel which was on top of black plastic and ugly as sin. We got rid of all that and planned to till it up and put in more lawn - okay that was my hubby's plan, I wanted pure garden!! That area back there is about 15-20 feet from the planter to the fence. This would be another area that I plan to take over with containers and a pipe garden.
I have gardened for years in containers. Now that we bought our own place - seems like I should actually be planting in the ground.