I travel a lot for work. Im not home more than a couple days at a time lately. Wife wanted a garden and I promised for mothers day and had 48 hourd at home to get it done. Fell short only the door, a little more rock inside and final backfill
For the part that bothers me most… straight wood doesn't exist. The bottom is square the top is square but if I pull the vertical 2×4 into square they deformed the top amd door frame. Not sure how I'll fix it but for now the critical parts are good. The base, the top, and most importantly the door fram is square.
For what its worth I have zero carpentry experience. I had a drill, a level, a 6inch square with 45 angle, and a baby mil circ saw.
by RollSomeCoal
31 Comments
Looks great. Get some pavers delivered so you can tighten up the exterior. I am currently waiting on mine and similarly did a 14 hour marathon over two days to revamp our garden. You should be proud.
https://preview.redd.it/3sx3fqw7l51f1.jpeg?width=2992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9596a5fa93357f68ab6655eace0d3718bfe2f676
This was mine, took two weekends after adding four additional beds.
Looks really good bro
> straight wood doesn’t exist.
Heh, yep. Even in fine woodworking, we buy our wood, let it warp, and then mill it down to square/straight. And then, we build assuming it will warp s’more.
This looks amazing, post it to /r/BeginnerWoodWorking and you’ll get some awesome feedback.
Looks amazing!
You’re being hard on yourself
This is great. Want to come build some fencing for my garden?!
This is amazing I wish my husband put this level of effort forth!!
You’re right this was very nice tho! I’m sure she loves it!!
Looks like you did an awesome job! You should be proud.
This kicks ass. Good for you
dude this is fantastic
Looks beautiful, I wouldn’t be able to point out one issue looking at it
Wow. Great job!
This is beautiful. Aiming to build something similar soon. Nice work!
I love this.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Nice going!
I would be over the moon if my husband even contemplated doing anything of this magnitude for me – you did great and I’m sure your wife is very happy! Bonus points for the drip irrigation as now she won’t have to water and hopefully everything will survive and thrive through the summer.
48 hours? I’d still be waffling on the design!
Looks great. A book I read about carpentry said, “Your building a house, not a piano.”
Are those cukes on the right? Is it ok to keep them clumped together in the 4-lot they come from the store in??? Cause I separated mine and they hated the root disturbance and did not recover from transplant shock. But like, since when are we supposed to plant things clumped?
You killed it
Very impressive!
That’s beautiful. Your wife must be so pleased!!
disappointing
you are very lazy and a poor gardener.
if you’re going to half-ass it like this, why even bother to sow seeds?
Incredible! You did a great job. I’d be ecstatic to have this at my house!
Amazing look but why so tall?
That’ll keep the bunnies and the deer out:)
Why all the stones though?
Yeah I was going to say that looks amazing to me and you know don’t worry about the fine carpentry details as long as everything fits together and is not like the leanung Tower of Pisa or even if it is what does it really matter the main point is this it looks good it’s functional easy to get to protected I think it’s amazing!
It’s beautiful. Wife is lucky.