A small raised bed

The Husband and I hauled these old railroad ties to build a raised bed in a problem area of Dad’s corral garden. There’s a low spot that we can’t easily level out, which would defeat our favorite watering method of letting water run down a furrow.

In addition to that, Dad decided that while he loved pinto beans, he didn’t want to grow them again because the bean pods grow underneath the plant, making them too hard to pick. My solution was this raised bed. It’s narrow (only two ties wide), and tall, so the plants will be much easier to pick.