a garden fit for a queen
what do you get when you have a husband (me) home alone on a saturday while his wife is taking an all-day certification exam?
Ok…something to the effect of being lazy and playing MVP Basebal 2004 came to my mind too.
What about when you add the following to the equation?
12 - 4″x4″x8′ pressure treated landscaping timbers
4 - pressure treated 2″x8″x8’s
24 - 1/2″x5″ galvanized steel lag bolts
5# - 16d galvanized nails
Erika has been wanting to start a garden, so I built her a nice raised plot to start with.
Now all we need is 48 cubic feet of soil and we’re “straight solid*.”
*”straight solid” is the new phrase, courtesy of druzba — try to use it at least 3 times a day!
May 16th, 2004 at 10:21 pm
Holy crap. That’s cool!
I’ll buy the wood if you’ll come to Minneapolis and build us one!
May 17th, 2004 at 7:32 am
Exactly… your raised bed is, indeed, straight solid. Also, it is just bonus coincidence that the lumber you used appears to be literally both straight AND solid.
May 17th, 2004 at 8:19 am
Nice, now go get some plastic or rubber to line the wood with on the inside, otherwise the soil will rot the wood early.
I know this because I was reading this magazine this morning about how to build things straight solid and that was one of the tips.
May 17th, 2004 at 10:40 am
Jason. I am no longer talking to you. How dare you encourage Jeffery that his sayings are even somewhat cool?
May 17th, 2004 at 11:29 am
Sigh… I’ve tried to explain to the Tart how most catch phrases she knows are the result of knowing me but she continues to resist. Tart is NOT straight solid.
May 18th, 2004 at 1:41 pm
Do what Rich says, for another damn good reason - you used pressure-treated lumber, which has all sorts of nasty chemicals (arsenic, in particular) that you don’t need leaching out of the wood, into your soil, and therefore into your veggies.
Looks fabu though!
Er, Straight Solid!
May 18th, 2004 at 3:15 pm
I thought about the whole pressure treated thing. The boards are ACQ, and not CCA — alkaline copper quaternary versus chromated copper arsenate.
I think that because of the alkaline nature, any chemicals that leech out will bind with the soil, but to be on the safe side, I think we’ll wrap the insides.
straight solid!
May 19th, 2004 at 8:40 am
You are all lame.
June 19th, 2004 at 3:50 pm
http://www.snazzykat.com/archives2/008748.php
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