A few months back I wrote about Hurricane Irma passing through and tearing the place up along the way. We got very lucky compared to the islands in the Caribbean, but still had to deal with the inconvenience of widespread property damage.
Year ago I built a beautiful 3-tier garden wall for my in-laws that went through many different uses including basic decorative flowers to a full organic produce garden full of lettuces, herbs, tomatoes, etc. We got a lot of use out of it and even though it was (over)built like a tank, the hurricane made short work of it and threw it around like it was made of cardboard.
Over the past several months we have been discussing what we wanted to put in its place. Should we just put a hedge, rebuild the same type of tiered garden, something more simple?
We decided on a more simple privacy/garden wall that would be easier to maintain, but still have an area to grow some basic food items. Now it might look like a fence, but it is definitely a "Wooden Garden Wall" if the homeowner association comes asking.
The goal was to split it into 2 sides, the left would be a flower wall and the right would be a food garden. We needed to have a solid base to support the trellises, vines, and hanging baskets from so an overlapped plank frame was chosen.
We got the major building parts done last weekend and next weekend we will attach the wood lattice for the flower wall section, put up the hanging posts with herbs, add pots with cucumber plants and setup up a drip irrigation line.
Red and White Climbing Flower Vines for the Garden Wall
Potted Tomato Plants with a Cool Rock Waterfall - Still needs the natural base stone under It.
The first clusters of tomatoes are already coming in - we bought mature plants to get a head start.
This weekend we will complete all the last items needed for this new garden wall and look forward to a calm and "hurricane free" summer this year!
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