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Welcome to the garden edition of Fixer Upper! Instead of gutting and renovating homes, this husband and wife team takes out old garden boxes and builds new and improved ones!
Sad, tiny carrot
One of the lessons I learned from last year was my raised bed wasn’t deep enough for vegetables to establish strong roots. Hence the small, sad carrot I pulled from the garden.
So what to do? In true Fixer Upper style, level the old structure and start over. Preferably, watch someone else tear down and rebuild. Like Joanne, I’m perfectly comfortable putting on the finishing touches once most of the work is done.
See my Chip turn the old into the new.
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- Old garden box and new boards
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- Steve aka Chip hard at work
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- Building the new garden box
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- Half of row two complete
And time for the big reveal! Unfortunately there are no large panels to roll back, but you can see the changes between last year’s box and this year’s in the slideshow below.
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- Building last year’s garden box
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- Completed garden box
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- Completed garden with fence
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- Prepping the space for the new box
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- First row of the new box nearly complete
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- Second row nearly complete
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- New and improved garden box complete
