Welcome to the Flirty Fleurs Cutting Garden!
An on-going project at my home here in Washington State.
Last year, 2019, Chad and I built 4 flower boxes and filled them with roses.
This year, 2020, we added 5 more flower boxes – 1 with roses, 1 with peonies, 1 with vegetables, and 2 with perennial plants for our projects with Longfield Gardens.
The boxes are created with Cedar plank boards; they measure 8′ by 4′ by 2′ tall. The boards are 12″ wide and 2″ thick. We have added chicken wire to the bottom of the boxes to keep moles, voles, and gophers out. We used 4″x4″ boards placed into the 4 corners to screw in the side boards. They are all quite heavy duty! All filled with fresh soil.
View the photos below to see the step-by-step as we constructed the new boxes.
Welcome to the flirty fleurs cutting garden! Currently at 9 Flower Boxes in our back yard.The boxes are being built with Cedar Boards. They measure 8 feet long by 4 feet wide and each board is 12 inches tall, we’ve doubled them up so the boxes are 2 feet tall. We’ve placed 4″x4″ in the corners where we screw the boards into place. We have placed chicken wire onto the bottom of the boxes to keep gophers, moles, and voles out of the boxes.For the ease of adding in the new soil we will add in the last two side boards when they are almost full. We do tamp down the soil so it doesn’t all sink once the plants are in place and the rain pushes it down.The side view, the cedar is a pretty wood.All full of soil and time to start placing all the new plants! These two beds will be filled with perennial plants from Longfield Gardens.Very excited for these to take root!Trenched in the middle and the lilies are placed. Going to be an eye-catching design!
Your cutting garden project is absolutely wonderful, and very inspiring! My husband and I are building our first box this year. We are wondering if you removed any of the grass/sod before building your boxes, or did you just build right on top of the grass? Thanks also for sharing the chicken wire tip. 👍
Chad dug down into the grass and removed any that made the box un-even. Otherwise, we left the grass in place and it got buried under the chicken wire and dirt inside the box.
Your cutting garden project is absolutely wonderful, and very inspiring! My husband and I are building our first box this year. We are wondering if you removed any of the grass/sod before building your boxes, or did you just build right on top of the grass? Thanks also for sharing the chicken wire tip. 👍
Chad dug down into the grass and removed any that made the box un-even. Otherwise, we left the grass in place and it got buried under the chicken wire and dirt inside the box.