The Easiest DIY Garden Box {No Cutting Needed} & The Inspire Me DIY Challenge

 Happy Memorial Day friends!

I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend!

So last week began the

Inspire Me DIY Challenge,

myself & 12 of my creative friends got together to inspire each other & YOU

to tackle projects that either hadn’t been started or maybe needed to be finished.

We shared our progress in Instagram

& tagged them with #inspiremediy.

Did you join in the fun?

All of your projects were amazing, I loved seeing them on IG!!!

This challenge really did inspire me,

I got so many things done!!

I worked on finishing my master bedroom

&

my vegetable & herb garden.

Yay, progress!

I thought I would share how I made my

DIY Garden Box-

it was so easy & the best part,

no cutting involved!!!

 This was the before….

Yikes, what an eye sore.

Our backyard makeover is going to be done in phases.

This DIY Garden Box was #1.

What you will need to make one of your own….

8 lengths of wood

wood screws with bit

compressor drill

a 2 x 2 precut for stakes

large amounts of cardboard

plastic drop cloth

staple gun

soil

peat moss

veggies & herbs

The Frame…

After reading many tutorials,

I decided to go with pressure treated wood,

it is no longer made with arsenic but just to be safe I lined & overlapped

 the interior with plastic using a staple gun.

I used 8 lengths of

2″ x 8″ x 8′,

which made a square 8ft x 8ft garden box.

You may not want yours this large.

The trick to keeping this project simple & easy is to use the lengths of wood as they come

& making your box square.

You can do a few 4ft x 4ft boxes

or a 6ft x 6ft.

We just screwed them into each other at each corner.

We had a 2″ x 2″ x 8′ cut down into 4-22″ pieces {ask the hardware store to cut this for you}

 to use as stakes for extra support in the middle.

Just hammer them in & screw.

My boys helped with this project,

which was so cute to see!

We layered cardboard down to kill the grass.

Soak it for a good hour, then lay the soil on top.

The soil….

this is the labor intense part.

Last week I had 4 yards of soil dropped off,

thinking I was going to fill this bad boy all in the time my little guy was at pre-school.

Boy was I wrong:).

This was a huge job for 1 person.

Do you ever get into a project & just want it done?

That was me, I was determined.

At the end of the day I was so tired & dirty,

but I did it:).

I layered in the peat moss to the soil & mixed together.

When you are ready for your soil just plug in your numbers HERE to get

the amount you need.

The fun part….

selecting the veggies & herbs.

I selected plants that we like to eat & use like rosemary, basil, lavender, heirloom tomatoes, eggplant,

squash, etc…

I kept them in vertical rows varying the spacing with each plant.

 I had a little helper:).

I wanted a clever way to tag my veggies & herbs.

I have piles of driftwood from our walks on the beach

so I thought they would be perfect.

I love how they turned out!!!

I just took a white craft pen & free handed the names.

       

   

Having a garden is something I have always enjoyed.

I can’t wait until the backyard is finished,

after 3 + years finally!!!

Stay tuned for more DIY backyard progress:).

Here is what my friends have been working on this past week….

Restoration House Interiors
Rooms for Rent
Space Number Sixteen
Ella Claire Inspired
This, That and Life
Migonis Home
Finding Silver Pennies
City Farmhouse
Just Destiny Mag
Craftberry Bush
The Chronicles of Home
AKA Design

Town & Country

Have a beautiful day!