The Big Bin, For the Win

So the new garden space has a whole lot of 8' x 3' beds. Right in the middle of those, taking the space of two of them, I decided that I wanted one larger bed.

Partly, this is to break up the monotony of a tank farm for a garden.

And partly, this is to make up for some of the lost square footage (despite the increased cubic footage) of the new beds. It's also less expensive per square foot.


We had to special order the 8' diameter tank.

Then we needed to find a way to get it home. That's a big plant pot.

As with the others, I cut out the bottom of the tank, and set it on cinder blocks.

Then we had to fill it. The best calculation is that this took a thousand gallons of dirt. That's 4.95 cubic yards.

That's a lot of dirt. All shoveled twice by hand.


We had a yard or two already, from having emptied some other locations, and we added three yards from the soil store.

Busted a wheelbarrow in the process.

Filled it mostly with "Garden Mix." One third topsoil and two thirds mushroom compost.

Can't wait for spring to really land, so we can fill this up. 

Since we will have a challenge reaching the very middle of this bed, we stuck a rosemary plant there.

And if you look closely, you'll see the pipe for the garden's primary sprinkler next to the rosemary.