Our Planter Boxes: After a Chicago Winter
Late summer of last year, we had just completed our DIY planter boxes for the back patio – all 37 linear feet of them! – and after a consult with a local nursery, we felt pretty comfortable bringing in soil, planting and mulching in September. We’ve never been much of green thumbs, but since living in this house, we’ve had […]
Late summer of last year, we had just completed our DIY planter boxes for the back patio – all 37 linear feet of them! – and after a consult with a local nursery, we felt pretty comfortable bringing in soil, planting and mulching in September. We’ve never been much of green thumbs, but since living in this house, we’ve had a lot of fun learning, thriving, failing and trying our damnedest. It felt scary purchasing the soil and perennials – a mini investment, no doubt – and living in a part of the country with exceptionally cold winters had us worried about the raised planters we had to have. During our design consult, we were given a tip that could potentially save us from heartache in the spring, and that was to insulate our planter boxes. Quite literally, we insulated them with multiple layers of thin foam! The bottom of our planters are open to the ground below, and our hope has always been that our garden will grow deep roots and return year after year, stronger, messier and more entangled as the seasons go by. The thought of a lush, overflowing garden in our backyard make...
Late summer of last year, we had just completed our DIY planter boxes for the back patio – all 37 linear feet of them! – and after a consult with a local nursery, we felt pretty comfortable bringing in soil, planting and mulching in September. We’ve never been much of green thumbs, but since living in this house, we’ve had a lot of fun learning, thriving, failing and trying our damnedest. It felt scary purchasing the soil and perennials – a mini investment, no doubt – and living in a part of the country with exceptionally cold winters had us worried about the raised planters we had to have. During our design consult, we were given a tip that could potentially save us from heartache in the spring, and that was to insulate our planter boxes. Quite literally, we insulated them with multiple layers of thin foam! The bottom of our planters are open to the ground below, and our hope has always been that our garden will grow deep roots and return year after year, stronger, messier and more entangled as the seasons go by. The thought of a lush, overflowing garden in our backyard make...
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