Last summer, we constructed a strawberry garden out of old wooden boxes. It worked, but it was quaint, and Liz wanted a real strawberry garden. And I like strawberries and gardens, and I was itching to finally use that saw that’s been sitting in a box in my garage since we bought the house, so this seemed like as good a reason as any.
So after procuring some 2x8s and a work table from Lowe’s, I had a perfectly respectable setup, ready to butcher some lumber:
My blood coursed with suburban manliness (and histamine–Spring allergies that did not appreciate the sawdust)! I really only needed to cut a single board in half, but it was the manliest single cut I could make!
The majority of the work was far less creative and primarily involved grunt labor: digging trenches and hammering stakes. But I had no intention of installing a garden that would shift and become unsightly, so all boards were carefully leveled and secured with corrosion-resistant deck screws:
Okay, it just looks like a box (because it is), but soon it’ll be growing delicious fruit and look way cooler.
–Simon