Showing off our weekend projects.
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Hello, DU Gardening group. This is my first post in the group, as I am new to gardening.
My family and I spent the weekend creating a new garden. I think it it turned out to be pretty good, so I wanted to post here in the DU Gardening group to show off all of our hard work from this weekend.
Here is our raised bed, approximately 11 feet x 3.5 feet. The sides of the bed are made from old roof slates.
And here is the salad table I built. Instructions are here. My boys helped paint it.
We haven't actually planted anything yet. I think that'll be next week's project. 
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Looks like you acomplished a lot this weekend. Welcome to the gardening club You will love it and your boys will learn so much.
I hope your garden is in a spot that gets full sun most of the day.
Good luck.
scarlett runner beans and heavenly blue morning glory, you'll have a colorful and edible tipi the kids will love.
kudos to you for taking the time to garden with the babies....that's where future gardeners come from
I can't wait to start mucking around in the mud! It's still way too early here tho.
We don't have much sun in our yard so generally vegetable gardens and a lot of flowers don't do well. Plus we had a rather large dog a while back so our grass was never very good looking.
So what I did is planted hardy perenial ground covers, instead of regular grass. It's coming together nice tho it took a lot of years to fill out. Our yard looks like a wild jungle and that's how we like it. I buy some hanging tomatoes to add here and there where the sun peeks in and plan to plant some
Karl Foerster grass. This will be a first try for me and I hope they survive because I am just crazy for them.
Half the joy is clever use of available space. You'll really enjoy the products of your endeavors!
I had a raised-bed in town. Now that I'm out in the boonies, I've got a bit more room. So far I've got about 1/3 of my kitchen garden in, starting from the side next to the woods. At the far end, there are heirloom greasy cut-short beans, then a patch of black beans, then spaghetti squash and watermelons. The trellis to the right has kiwi fruit vines. In a couple of months the trellis will be greened-over.
One of my female kiwis bloomed last year, so I'm hoping this year the male will bloom. Can't wait to taste kiwi fruit, sun-ripened fresh from the vine!
Looks like you are off to a good start. I'm about three years into learning to be a gardener and DU has been a great resource in that endeavor. I'm sure you'll find to be so too.
It's incredibly satisfying to eat something you grew yourself. And it's great that you are getting the boys involved. Kiddie gardener tip: radishes grow fast and give almost instant gratification while you wait for the rest to get going-- plus they help repel squash bugs! If you don't like to eat them, let them flower. They get quite tall and have pretty blooms.
Will look forward to more pics of your backyard patch! 