Out of garden space? Build some!!

My next door neighbor is brilliant! We all know how small my garden space is, but imagine having even less! That's what my backdoor neighbors have to face. It's amazing what they've done though. Around their patio, they've made a small vegetable garden and then at the entrance to their walkway, they've made raised beds from horse water troughs. The most inspiring addition was the built in planter boxes.

Removing a few cottage stones, they were able to create a perfect, sunny void that could be filled in with soil. A front to hold the dirt was constructed and wedged between the cottage stones, and a little protection was placed at the base of the fence behind to make sure the wood didn't rot. Add some soil, some bean trellises and some beans, and you've got yourself a vertical garden.

This amazing and simple construction job was all to inspiring for me... I had to follow their lead and build my own beds. I'll be honest, I got a little out of control. In total, I built up 6 new beds. This displaced a few cottage stones that I now need to find a use for. I'm thinking that I can put them together in my patio area to plant some sort of shady vine or shade flowers. I'll keep you posted!