Ziggurat herb bed - Weekend home.

For a few years we had two raised beds at the weekend house.  One year we had tomatoes galore!  I was making fresh pasta sauce pretty regularly. Then the next year nothing grew well and we assumed it was because it was so dry.  Funny story, the neighbor told us that she was watering our gardens in years past because they had a garden nearby but because they themselves removed their garden, the stopped watering ours.  They are so kind to have watered our plants in the first place!  This year we expanded to four 3' by 5' raised beds to plant veges, a cutting garden and herbs.  We placed a central square for many of the herbs and dubbed it the Ziggurat.  I'll post the dimensions and instructions for cutting the wood at a later date.

Moving the two beds next to the fence about a food away
and two new boxes in front.  Boxes were made of
2 by 8 wood boards.

The beds finished.  Technically you should turn the ground
before adding the dirt but I'd been digging all day and
got sloppy.  We purchased bagged soil  by Coastal at the local
Ace Hardware store.  The first batch was stellar dirt, the
second batch was little less lomy than we'd like.  In the older
boxes, we had purchased the soil by the payload and it
was fabulous.  Unfortunately, due to government bureacracy,
that soil is no longer available.



The Ziggurat - filled with herbs.