Building the Garden

Building the garden was a fun and educational process.  We received our grant from Lowes Corporation in May of 2010.  With the grant and the generosity of several local businesses (Tri-Rental, Four Seasons Fence, Ricci Lumber, Rolling Green Nursery and Churchill Gardens) and the help from many LHS parent volunteers, we were ready to design and build the garden .  If you follow the pictures it will give you a step by step process of how the garden was built.

Step 1: after laying out the location of the garden it was necessary to rake out the soil to free it of as many rocks and grass and weeds as we could.  

 Step 2: We received 8 truck loads of fill dirt that had to be distributed around the garden to level the area out.  It took many hands and a couple of days to move this amount of soil around.

Step 3 : next we laid down a weed barrier.  This helps to keep the garden from getting too many weeds.  We also put in stakes to show the location of the fence post holes that needed to be dug.

Step 4: two parent volunteers used an auger to drill the many post holes needed for the fence.

Step 5: While the fence posts were being installed, some volunteers helped to build the raised beds.

Step 5: Another picture of the fence being installed along with the raised beds being built.  A total of 12 beds were built giving the garden 600 square feet of planting space.

 Step 6: Rolling Green Nursery delivered two trucks loads each containing 9 yards of a compost and loam mixture.  The volunteers then shoveled many wheel barrows full of soil to each of the 12 raised beds to fill them.

After a long day of building and another day of planting, your garden was completed!