It's Finally Done!

Hello,

I first got you all excited about my plant adventures about a month ago and now I can finally say, It's done! My 3m x 1.8m x 0.8m plantar box is complete, full of dirt and plants. Now we just sit back and literally, watch the grass grow. While we wait for it to grow, I'll give you a recap of the building process from where I left you last time.

So we'd built the frame, screwed corrugated iron panels on the sides and were ready to rumble. Basically Matt and I were too chicken to get the dirt delivered until yesterday morning. Before that we'd been doing some tame digging and laying pavers but now the hard work would begin.

So we ordered dirt. Lots of it, 4 cubic metres worth of it. At first I thought it was great!

"Dirt! Let's take a photo" The delivery driver laughed at me.

"Woohoo dirt pile!" Let's climb it. 

It's taller than me!

But after the tenth bucketful of dirt it dawned on me. I had just paid  $250 to have my worst nightmare delivered. Matthew filled 20L paint buckets with dirt in less than ten seconds and my job was to attempt to dump the dirt in the box 6m away. 

Don't do it! If you ever get an urge to build a plantar box, just pay someone else to do it. It's not only backbreaking, it's a soul crushing 4hours of continuous bucket lifting. Whoever said I don't work out? I just did hundreds of 20kg reps. 

Matthew and I worked on the dirt pile for a few hours and put a 1/3 dent in it until we stopped for a break. I pulled the wool over my little brother's eyes and enlisted him to help. Poor Robert thought it would be like yesterdays work: chopping tree roots with an axe and digging trenches for pavers. Oh no - this is heavy lifting time. 

But we did it. Between the three of us, Matt calculated something like 3000 shovels and 4 hours later, BAM the dirt was gone. 

See? Gone. 

So now we had a box full of dirt ready for planting. With a spirit raising theme song from myself, "Don't stop, never give up . . . .something something reach the top!", we persevered and planted the entire garden.

Isn't it majestic? 

Breathtaking - Carrots, Snow Peas, Capsicum, Parsley, Corn, Spring Onion, Lettuce, Zucchini, Squash, Cherry Tomatoes, Passionfruit, Chilli, Mega Tomatoes and four species of Strawberries. Oh the mighty garden! 

Oh when I said it was done, it pretty much is. Still needs stakes and mesh to keep plants standing straight and safe from hungry bush turkeys, but otherwise this garden is complete. Do you like it!? It even waters itself every day because of this neat little timer device.

Still working on finishing my plant stakes but I am very very pleased with how damn cute they look.

My favourite is spring onion. The miniature greenhouses I got from Bunnings for a bargain $10 each have actually worked. I planted some marigolds and broccoli seeds about two days ago and broccoli is already germinating! Fantastic.

Grow little guys!

Leave a comment pleeease. It would make me very happy.

Come on - reward me for all that hard blogging and digging.

Gemma