Raised bed installation, Part 5 - Fini!

The vegetable portion of my grand garden scheme is finished!

Lest we forget, here is the area in question, June 2019.

More recently:

And now...

I can't wait to get the tiered gardens done now, so that the whole hill looks as nice as the finished section!

I made a quick squash trellis out of an old, bent piece of hog panel I had on hand.  (I am Yankee, see me hoard.)  The step-in posts I use for temporary electric fencing for the mules worked perfect as braces to hold it on an angle.  I also used them to hold up the cucumber trellis.

That's nearly 3 yards of bark mulch, which was much easier to bucket up the hill than dirt.  My only concern is a heavy downpour sending it all down the hill...we'll see what happens.

I managed to plant all of my peonies along the wall, and mulched around those.  I didn't use weed block around them, just laid out newspapers and plopped the mulch on top.  That stump sitting on top of the big rock is a sumac that I was able to pull by hand.

Yup, definitely happy.
And sore.
And a lot lighter in the wallet.

Worth it!