Wednesday, July 10, 2013

As I Was Walking : The Follow Up


Neither heat, humidity or swarms of mosquitoes can keep me away from a story.

You want follow up on the reuse of the pallets into a raised bed?

I got it.

It took several days of walking to work and either forgetting my camera or hiding under an umbrella and gazing forlornly at this cool structure before I finally got a break at work and a break in the rain and ran down the street to point and shoot.

Initially the driveway was filled with pallets and the (this part is important) young man who has a girlfriend was taking them apart board by board, to create a 15ft. raised bed. This is all that is left

And this is his creation.
 Posts sunk into the ground are strung with heavy picture wire attached with eye hooks, providing a background for the many vines to climb.

His tomatoes and eggplant are heavy with fruit, his melons covered with blossoms.

He is the plant whisperer.

I have a fungal infection, well my Sungold does and my zucchini bears flowers but no fruit.
I feel like Eve, after the apple.

I shall have to keep a close eye on his crops.
But if there were to be any "foraging" you wouldn't read about it here.


30 comments:

  1. Wow, that is beautiful--I love the different shades of wood. All from pallets?

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    1. No I think be bought some lengths of wood also for the frame and those beautiful posts.

      I'm going to ask him where he got those.

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    2. I just looked again, yes all the vertical. boards are from pallets.

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  2. Wow! That is amazing. I was thinking of making planters from some old fence slats, but maybe pallets are the way to go. So cool!

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  3. Ah, yes! The seemingly endless uses for old pallets. I live with a man I (sometimes) call "le palletomane." Now, if I could just think of a use for old palletomanes...

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    1. I would love to see some pictures of his work. Post?

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  4. Great project-as the Aussies say, goodonhim. ( aka a job well done)

    Send the cats for samples.
    They're stealthy, and don't care about eating the melon as much as playing with it, I'll bet :)

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  5. I love elevated gardens of any kind. (Yes, I'm an old lady.) I'm a little concerned about how long that pallet wood will stand up to the soil and water, but I think it is a great recycle job.

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    1. That is a good point. I'll ask the roommate.

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  6. Love it! Oh how I wish I had the vision. My landscapers left two pallets last summer I have them stowed, well not to well as they are making me crazy having to look at them. I have been toying with a hanging garden, but not sure where it might hang.

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    1. I would love to see that idea in action. Think!

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  7. That's a great garden and as someone else mentioned, it eases up the amount of bending. Always a plus no matter what your age.

    I'm having the same problem with my regular zucchini too! Are they all males?! My "volunteer" squash, we get them every year from the compost, has a bunch of squashes growing so at least I'll get something.

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    1. I blame it on the high temps. Too hot to set fruit. well except on the always hardy volunteers!

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  8. Lovely creation. I'm sure they'll share a melon or two with you.

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  9. He does good work. I would think those would last several years which isn't bad for a free planter.

    I wonder if the zucchini problem is all the rain you had didn't allow the bees to do their job? Maybe you should just stuff the flowers and fry those babies up.

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    1. Steve, I just found a zucchini!!! Oh happy day.

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  10. Nice job all around, planter and garden. This Summer the weather has wreaked havoc on everything, well except this guy's stuff.

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  11. That is brilliant! My garden is shrivelling in the heat. Yes you heard right!! xx

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    1. Heat? Shriveling? I just visited your blog and Instagram, you have delphs and sweet peas. Shriveling my culo :-)

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  12. o.k....o.k. I did think about him as a single candidate for....what? Well, we're all looking out for your future!

    And I'll fess up about your new roomie: too bad he's married. There. I said it.

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    1. Better hope he doesn't read the blog, you might make him nervous.

      He's like the brother I always wanted. That's a pretty good relationship too, right?

      It will happen, somewhere, sometime...right?

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  13. Gosh I love stuff repurposed like this, and what a fantastic thing created by a young man. He'd be a clever one to have around, for sure!

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  14. It's lovely. Who'da thought? Glad the fungus is in the garden - you had me worried for a second. xoxo

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    1. Any more rain and both the garden and myself will be totally fungified.

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  15. He is the plant whisperer. How can you plant one moment and have fruit the next? And tell me, is the super roomie still cooking? Hope so!

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    1. He is. Crazy, right? I had to whip up dinner one night just to keep my self in shape.

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  16. He's put the hex on your plants, I reckon. It's only right and proper that you take (foraged) revenge.....

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  17. Hello .
    I saw your blog over at Jen's country weekend. I love her blog.
    I of course am only just reading this post now.. but its fantastic.. its given me a great idea for an area here .
    Hope to see you my side of the world..
    kind regards.. i will be following you.
    val.
    http://valerietilsten59blogspot.com..... val's Alentejo. Portugal
    Happy weekend.

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