On the banks, I would like to preserve all my mint plants, but I want to
start some descending beds that look something like a combination of these two
pictures:
Does anyone have a website with step by step paper instructions???? I've
been trying to find one, but no such luck. Except, that is in my Garden landscaping book, but it isn't quite the look I'm going for.
My biggest challenge with this project is going to be cost. 😩 I don't even want to think about it. I'm hoping I can make it out of pallets but...yeah.
I think I would probably do a herb garden in the raised beds since the mint is alread preexisting. Pretty much the herbs that you cook with day to day:
http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/essential-ingredients/all-about-herbs-slideshow
I might put a few sacrifical strawberry plants in there to. Gotta keep the birdies away from my larger patch!
Okay, so my plan is that I'm going to trim down the overgrown bank at the end of the driveway and till it up into a usuable flower bed. One part of me wants to use some old tires because it's right next to the road and I feel like it would be a cool statement. There are so many amazing ideas, but the biggest problem for me is that I dont have anything to cut the firewalls out of the tires. 😢. But some websites say you don't have to...*sigh*.
This is a great article that I found. Very step by step, though not the design I'm looking for. http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Raised-Bed-Garden-From-Tires/
These were eye opening and highly creative. And they pretty much convinced me to use tires. The second one has me thinking of even more uses:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/a-new-use-for-old-tires-a-garden-using-tires/
http://balconygardenweb.com/8-tire-garden-ideas-you-must-look-on/
And this one told me that I could do what I was envisioning. Survey pictures 2-7 essentially. the ones where they kind of look like walls.
http://www.akitasmexico.com/flowerbed-of-tires-with-your-own-hands-photo-beds-of-the-wheel-tires-and-walkthroughs-for-its-creation/
But we shall see. There are a lot of varying opinions on whether or not it's okay to plant edibles in the tires, but I'm gonna try it out. But for the area next to the road I'm probably gonna grab some nice wildflowers. Gotta attract those pollinators!
I think I'm going to buy both of these from Clyde Robin:
http://clyderobin.com/wildflower_mixes/wildflower_collections/hummingbird_butterfly_mix.htm
http://clyderobin.com/wildflower_mixes/wildflower_collections/hardy_wildflowers.html
And this is just the first project!
Spring is coming, in fact it feels like it's already here! I have done so much outside recently, getting the lndscaping into shape before things start to emerge from their winter slumber.
Word to the wise, don't try to pull a two-hundred-plus-pound log off of a mountain for your garden decor. The tree will, eventually, win. I foolishly pulled it off of the mountain and dragged it quite a way, but I would not recommend it to anyone. And it still hasn't gotten all the way to the garden so...yeah. I'm going to make a few more posts about the projects that I'm planning...I'm being pretty ambitious.
