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9 Steps to Building the Perfect Box Garden
If you have been considering building a box garden at your home or office, here are the nine steps to make it perfect.
Having a box garden instead of an in-ground garden has a few benefits:
- If you need to remove the garden, you haven't disturbed the earth under the box
- You can build the garden high enough to make it easier to tend; less back-breaking
- When tending to the lawn (cutting the grass, trimming) the clippings won't end up in the garden
- The box provides good drainage, assuming you've used the proper soil
- The box serves as a deterrent to grasses and weeds that "creep" from the lawn
- The box serves as a deterrent to many of the bugs that don't fly (slugs, snails, caterpillars, etc)
Building a box garden (or a garden box, depending on which side of I-10 you are from) has some upfront expense, but if done properly, it should last several years.
9 STEPS TO BUILDING THE PERFECT BOX GARDEN
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