The Lowe’s Creative Ideas Network project for July was creating outdoor art, so I figured we’d work on a little corner of the backyard and dress it up a little bit.
We forgot to take before pics, whoops, but here’s a Vine video of this section of the backyard right after we moved in. You can see the area we where we took out a couple of bushes, a tree and even part of the lawn. A LOT of work, mostly done by the Mr, of course!
The Mr is a very good gardener and it was too bad that between the move and settling in…building veggie beds kind of fell by the wayside. We finally got some in, but probably a little to late to reap much summer harvest. We put in three 3’x3′ raised veggie beds, very similar to these. And I couldn’t resist these lonely heirlooms at Lowe’s, there were only a few tomato plants left. I insisted on adopting two of them 😉 We used these square tomato cages as well; they tie in with the square theme we having going on.
We bought a couple of these fun, modern hanging planters to decorate the fence behind the planters. We planted our poor, slightly dehydrated and squirrel-munched strawberry plants in the bottom planters (hopefully I’ll get to eat the strawberries now instead of the squirrels???). And on the top I planted a variety of different succulents. Can’t wait until they fill in a bit!
whitney @ thecurtiscasa says
Such a neat outdoor space! Love the squares you've got going on. The raised veggie beds are perfect! Great job 🙂
Vel Criste says
Looking great Reichel!! Specially love the modern planters and all the wood all around!!! Enjoy!
Little Bitty Damn Houze says
Looks so good! Good luck on your tomotoes!
Shay @ Whine Less, Breathe More says
Looking good! I would love to do something like this next year.