The first thing to do for my Frisco Square foot garden was to get the chosen spot ready and build the wood frame. I picked a spot that gets full on the south side of the house. That spot will allow a raised bed that would measure 2' wide by 12' long. There is a slope from the garage to the other side of the box that drops about 10 inces over the two foot planned width.
I next scraped off the grass pretty well with a flat blade shovel. I then put down chicken wire to keep out varmits (I remember dad and grandpa battling gophers in their old 30ft row gardens...) I also put down weed guard and used staples to hold it all down.
During this process, I ran across a sprinkler head. I had to dig down to the connection with PVC supply pipe and installed a piece of funny pipe and added the sprinkler head back to the pipe for the time being. I will be installing drip irrigation later in the season.
I started working on the frame. I was close to getting finished, but time for Valentine's Day dinner reservations seemed to show up quicker than I realized... Had to drop it unless I wanted to reconfigure the lumber into the shap of a doghouse!
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