Thursday, May 15, 2008

Water troughs - temporary bamboo containers, eventual raised beds


Last May our neighbors to the North cut down the laurel hedge separating our driveway from their yard, leaving our backyard and whole N. side very exposed. We weren't sure when they were going to begin their remodel, and didn't want to build a fence until their updates were complete. We purchased these water troughs to plant bamboo in as a way of insuring summertime privacy. Rachael T. is providing the (very invasive) bamboo, while our favorite wood salvage yard supplied the wood with which we built the platforms. The locking casters on the platforms will enable us to move the the troughs around. We will eventually build a fence there, return the bamboo to Rach and use the troughs as raised beds for veggies.

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