This year, Andrew and I went nuts and decided to do a ton of things to our house and yard. It’s been a few years since we’ve been in this house and we finally decided that this would be the year that we’re finally going to put some personality into our house. First up was the yard and one of its many projects was doing something with our backyard space. Our backyard is fairly small and we really had to be creative when coming up with a usable space. We decided to remove our dead bushes in the space in the back and put in garden boxes. Looking around online, we came across an easy and affordable tutorial HERE on how to make our very own cedar garden boxes.

We started out with 6 cedar fence pickets per 6 foot box and a bunch of stainless steel screws. Cedar is good for garden boxes because it takes a long time for it to rot and the stainless steel screws were essential so that they wouldn’t rust. The screws actually ended up being the most expensive part of each of the boxes which made the price per box actually cost more like $20 instead of the tutorial’s $10 per box cost. That number was still fine by us though since we needed custom sized boxes to fit our needs and this is by far less expensive than commercial cedar garden boxes.

 

Our garden now.

Our makeshift grape trellis.

Heirloom tomatoes and peppers grew like crazy this year!