Garden Boxes

1. Garden Boxes Easy to do, maintain, and feel great providing your own produce.

2. Why consider it • People are becoming a bit to dependent on food being provided and think it is healthy. But you don’t know where it comes from what is done to it on the in-between growth place to stores. • Store food is treated with harmful preservatives to keep them fresh but is the cost of convenience worth the long term cost of your health? Or do you even care what your contains? • I just want to throw and alternative out there and show you is not difficult to grow at least a small amount of independence.

3. Materials and instructions • This is for a 4’x8’x8’’ box • I like weather treated wood or Juniper wood for longevity • Get a 4’’ by 4’’ and cut 6’’ or 8’’ corner post • Three 2’’ by 6’’ boards that are 8’ long • Place a cloth barrier to keep out varmints tack in place • Place a weed cloth down to keep weeds and grass growing up through the box.

4. Materials and Instructions • It’s a box so not to hard to construct. • Screw the 2’’ by 6’’ boards to the 4’’by 4’’ post • After being connected put the cloth barriers on the bottom and staple or tack them to the board • Fill with a mix of soils for nutrients like top soil, a sandy mix and for me I add dyno-green for nutrients • Get string and make one foot spacing and string them across so you can get a good sense of spacing for plants

5. Material and instruction In addition To start from seed there are many ways to do it. You can germinate them early and have them growing in the window seals or just put them in the soil and wait to see if it will grow. • You can add a pole that in bent into an n-shape and set up a net to help viney plants grow • Plant choice is up to you on what you’d like to have around. • You can purchase starters which have grown and you just transplant, or you can start from seed.

6. Simple example with a grid layout

7. Home grown Store bought They are mass grown on unfertile soil, and shock grown with chemicals They are coated with a waxy substance so they stay “fresh,” but holds bacteria on the skin. They are picked prematurely, which leads to a lack of nutrients and flavor • You know what is being done to the vegetable and how it was handled • You have the option of not growing them in chemicals (i.e. “miracle grow”) • It’s truly fresh • Helps you learn and get food for yourself

8. The idea behind the boxes Is that they give you a easier Working space, free of weeds And unwanted plant growth In your grow area. help They help with space management by being above ground. You can make them small or large depending on space available. Ease the preparation process for the seasons to come. It brings in workability to even harsh areas.

9. Benefits Supply a fresh food that you can taste. Satisfaction of watching the process and being able to taste it is amazing. • You learn to follow something through a process. • It’s easy on budget and time. • Learn how to grow your own produce or help • Not be completely dependent on the producers.