After building a small raised garden made from pallets last year I decided to expand the garden to allow for more room to grow more vegetables. The raised flower bed worked really well but wasn’t large enough to supply past the warm months.
If you missed the Pallet Garden post you can read it up here.
Growing your own food saves money and it’s amazing how yummy fresh vegetables from the garden taste.
My goal this year is to freeze and can supply for the winter months.
Removing the sod is a tedious task and not something I’m fond of. Ok, it’s not something I really wanted to do. What do you do with all of that anyway?
I decided to kill the sod instead of removing it.
I used cardboard to cover the area of the soon-to-be-garden. To keep the cardboard in place I used pallet runners as weights.
The idea is to kill the grass/weeds while the weather is still cold and rainy. After the weather starts to heat up a bit the garden will be ready to work with.
Wish me luck!
That’s the plan, anyway.
The lonely pallet shed…
It won’t be long before the garden and flowers surround the shed.
Spring is in the air and I can’t wait to get busy outdoors.
Do you garden? Have you tried the cardboard method? Do you can or freeze?
Stay tuned for the garden updates and the adventures in preserving.
I’ve not used the cardboard method — I’ve used newspaper and even old rugs! I’m your newest follower. I look forward to sharing our garden ideas together!
First of all, LOVE LOVE LOVE your pallet shed. I can only imagine how cool that looks once everything is planted around it. I’m expanding my garden this year, too. Probably not as strategically as you I’ll bet, but this post is still helpful! Thanks for sharing at the Home Matters Linky Party! We hope to see you next week!
It is so nice to add more room to the garden… and your cardboard method looks like it will work well. I hope you have a wonderfully productive garden. I imagine your shed will look so beautiful w/ the plants growing around it. 🙂
That pallet shed is great! Thanks for joining Home Sweet Home!
Sherry
thanks for sharing on Show off Friday -it’s so wonderful that spring is here!
I’ve never used the cardboard method, but I’m sure it will workout fine. Right now we just have tomatoes, bell peppers, and green onions growing. I’d like to expand to a few more veggies soon.
Hello gorgeous! I love seeing your masterpieces.Thank you for bringing such great things to our party. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on Monday at 7 pm.. Lou Lou Girls
So many projects and so little time! lol! We removed an area of sod to build a potting shed. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
hugs,
Jann