After you've built a box, attach two boxes together with metal tie plates. We bought the medium sized ones with five holes, then four holes, then five holes, etc.... Use two tie plates for each side to keep the box from twisting when it's finished.
Hammer in four nails for each tie plate-one in each corner of the plate.
When done securing all the tie plates, bend and pound in the protruding ends of the nails so if someone has to reach in the box for weeding they won't snag their glove (or hand!) on the nails from the tie plates.
And here's two beautiful finished boxes! Let the planting begin! After they're filled with soil! And after I've determined where they will go in the yard!
2 comments:
Dave had said the boxes were a lot of work but that the spoils (the strawberries) would make it worthwhile.
Hi Trisha, great post and it goes so well with Eric's post about square gardens. I love gardening so it will be exciting to hear how the strawberries do.
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