How to make a zillion garden boxes

Locate or purchase 3 5ft long 6in wide boards.

Have hubby, or someone not in charge of a baby, cut one board in half. This leaves you with 2 5ft and 2 2.5ft lengths.

Drill holes into the 2 5ft boards where you’ll be placing your screws. This helps prevent splitting the wood:

Rest one end of the long board on a handy surface…

…you kids’ toy shelf, for instance:

Screw the other end to the shorter 2.5ft board:

Continue until you have a box.

Or several boxes:

Figure out where you will be placing the box:

Rototill to make the ground nice and soft:

Shovel the dirt out of the area you’ll be placing the box:

Remove any obstacles:

Measure again:

Scoop dirt away to sink box down:

Check for level (on all four sides):

Shift the soft dirt in the box out to the sides:

Then rototill within the box to fluff up the dirt some more:

Rototil beside the box to soften the dirt you’ll be shovelling into the box:

Shovel dirt into the box:

…until nice and full:

In summary:

Build, til, dig, til, dig, til, dig, til, dig.

Repeat times 1 zillion.

Amen.

Note: 1 zillion in this case actually equals 116 boxes. But it felt like a zillion.

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