[onefinookas]

Snaggle and I have gone plant crazy this year, we have an awesome garden kicking on the side of the house, seedlings starting all over the dining room and we built an awesome flower box in the front of the house.  Im going to share some flower box foto stoke for with you fellow gardeners or those of you that appreciate garden type diy bullshit.  Hopefully I can update as things come up.  


I built the box using plywood and 2x8 douglas fir that i got from Home Depot, this is also where I bought most of my soil builders except for bumper crop.  The supports and braces I scored from the carpenters building the new house around the corner who let me raid the scrap pile for lumber.  I didnt have plans for the box but snaggle explained what she wanted and how big it should be and I stayed at a Holiday Inn express like 10 years ago so building it was ez, pffft.  The plants were either started from seed our we bought them at Hicks nursery, this place rules but next thing you know you have three carts full of plants, whoa.  Snaggle painted the box after I built it and she did all the planting, quite the green thumb.
enjoy


did I actually build that, snaggle get her paint on.


im about to get my soil on, not pictured is the rototil I borrowed from my parents it was a god send when it was time to mix the moss and mulch and other brown trout(literally) together.  I mixed the soil in that plastic blue bin.


this took way longer than i thougt to fill but I had enough soil made to get it done.  Note the neat driftwood accent that snaggle and I scored in the back bay.

this series of fotos was taken on 4/18/09
this is one of what seemed like 100000 of these little plant boxes we filled up at hicks on our three cart bonanaza, pickup trucks are a gardeners best buddy.  I am not a gardener but I play one on tv


snaggle doing some floral landscaping, double checking each plant has the space it needs to go off, stoked.


layout determined time to get these fellas in the ground.


different angle note the styrofoam pellets we used as a base for better drainage.


well snaggle got everything planted while I was at work, pretty rad, lets see how it all turns out.

[onefinookas]

this plant or flower is called a columbine the foto was taken 4/23 was stoked to see it already starting to flower.


this was taken 4/30 I didnt realize the flower opened like that, stoked.


this was taken this morning, no bullshit.  When we bought this little plant they didnt show the flowers looking this rad, stoked.  Snaggle has a green thumb.  STOKED!!!!

[box]

justin i gotta walk by tomorrow morning and take a look at the flower box you built. the pics are great!

[onefinookas]

i will try and document our vegetable and herb gardens the same way if I can.  I have surfing stoke, snaggle stoke, puppy stoke and now garden stoke, stoked to be stoked.

[snaggletooth]

it's cool to see the photos from the beginning, which was just a couple weeks ago. the plants have already grown so much! and our vegetable garden on the side of the house is going off!! peas, carrots, broccoli, butter lettuce, mesclun lettuce, 2 types of radishes.... should have strawberries in a bit and then can plant the tomatoes and cucumbers when it warms up some more. and tons of herbs everywhere. all this and no yard! it's gonna look like a jungle mid-summer when all the vines have grown. I have moonflowers sprouted and morningglories and egyptian pea vines. STOKED!

[seb]

nice!

[Mims]

sweet! 

[EastEndWahine]

Good stuff!  One day I hope to have a garden

[da Kook]

Who among us believes that onefin was really taking a picture of the plants?   
 

[BlueBerry]

Pretty Freaking Awesome!


Good Work!

[ankleslapper]

nice guys!  and I am NOT being a downer in the stoke room, but I gotta give a heads-up:  Watch out for SLUGS.  We have some spinach, herb garden and tomato seedlings growing on the side porch.  Came in this eve, saw what I thought looked like HAIL all over the tomato seedlings (seriously, looked like ice or glass chunks ALL OVER the little individual natural fiber seed cells they are planted in).  Touched it.  SQUISHY!  I really thought it was the BLOB invading Rock.  UNCLE told me it was prob slug eggs -- grossy mcgrosserson.  Usually not bad if they're in full sun, but with all the rain...something took hold...
argh.  YOUR FLOWER BED IS AWESOME!

[snaggletooth]

eeewww! onefin, post that pic of the tomato monster we had last year....

[onefinookas]

i cant that foto is on the computer i crashed last year

[ankleslapper]

no, don't -- because I think whatever it was is about to hatch outside on my steps!!!!  Hope it doesn't invade the spinach as well, which is all sortsa leafy, green gorgeous...

[snaggletooth]

 
it looked like this, but our picture was better