Let's take this up a notch or four.

The stairwell garden has been fun and all, but I've been itching to take this thing outside for a while. So with the blessing, and funding, of agency management we're doing just that; our own little Alcone Garden. Actually, I'm happy to say, it's not going to be that little.


The first thing to do was pick a proper site. The Alcone building is on a large piece of property, but there was really only one spot that would give us the 6-8 hours of sunlight we need. So that settled that.

The site needed a little work though. In order to get proper drainage, the raised beds would need to be level.

This meant there was going to be a little digging involved. That's all right, digging's good for you.

The next thing was to put the boxes in. I got these really nice cedar boxes from a company called Mini Farm Box. It's the product of Conor Fitzpatrick, a really nice and helpful guy in L.A. More about him and his beautiful boxes in a future post.

Getting everything in place was simple enough. A little elbow grease here...

a little cow manure there, and next thing you know...

It's planting time!

In order to make sure there would be enough veggies to go around, I went with two 4x4x18" and two 4x8x11".

Planting starts tomorrow. Stay tuned.