Garden Box Project

Our backyard has turned into a bit of a disaster. A few years ago our neighbors sprayed some weed killer along the fence line and it killed some of our grass. Some wild grass moved in and has been slowly taking over the backyard since then. It has been really terrible. One section has become so bad we decided we needed to do something. Around that time Shantel found someone that makes beautiful garden boxes. We've also wanted more space for garden stuff, so we decided to get replace some of the grass with garden boxes. 

First step was to remove the grass. We were fortunate that we found a pretty cool day to do this. We were also really fortunate to have Scott come and help us get all the grass out. It took an entire morning, but it went faster than I actually thought it would. 

Shantel and Scott went and picked up the garden boxes in his truck which was really nice. 


While they were gone, I got the rest of the grass out and then we evened out the ground and got the boxes placed. 


Overall it looked really good for our first day working on it and we were happy. We were also really happy with the way the boxes turned out. 

Scott and Jake came back a few weeks later and helped fix the sprinklers. They had to replace the old sprinkler heads and run water to where the garden boxes go. Shantel worked with them and it took a long time, but they got all the sprinkler stuff done. 

They also moved our drain from the house and ran it down to the rock wall. It was a ton of work and I am so grateful that they helped. 

A few days later we got rocks delivered and moved those back to cover the dirt area. I think it looks pretty good. This project is technically still not totally done. We filled one of the boxes with dirt to see how to do it best, but we still need to order compost/dirt to fill the boxes, but that will probably be something we do next spring.