I wanted to show you a picture of what I got for my “swampy” area (although it hasn’t really rained in weeks, so):
There are not technically raised beds but “fire rings” (meant to contain a campfire). They were less expensive than raised beds—although not by much, because the manufacturers of fire rings have obviously figured out that people will also buy them to use as raised beds, which by law must be absurdly expensive.
Anyway, they look pretty nice from my kitchen window, which was the main goal. The setup process actually involved me running back in forth into the house several times to look out the window and make sure they looked right before they got their final placement and filling.
This spot is wet because of the drainage situation but gets FULL sun, like 14 hours a day in the midsummer. So I am thinking that in each one of these I will put a pepper plant, a watermelon plant to spill over the sides (maybe one in each direction) and then some annual flowers to fill in the gaps and make them super-cute.
Unrelated note: Blogging more often got me curious about what the rest of this blog actually says, and I went back recently to read about the year leading up to my Ironman (2011). No huge surprise that I was training a lot, but the part that shocked me was how much I was also working at the time. Some days I was working 11 hours and training 4. (Other days I was training 8 hours and basically eating and sleeping the rest of the time.) I know I’m older, but these days I consider a day where I work 4 hours and also go to yoga more than enough activity. Just…interesting.
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