{"id":1556,"date":"2009-06-02T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:23:07","slug":"making-raised-garden-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Making Raised Garden Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1557\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1557\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1557\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?fit=860%2C751&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"860,751\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Roland K Smith&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This garden bed is being custom built for a lady in the neighborhood. It&#039;s 9 feet long and two feet wide. It&#039;ll go in her back yard up against the house near their deck. She&#039;s planned quite a garden to go into the garden bed and says if it works out, she&#039;ll want another one built. There will be extensions on each end to hang flowers and upside-down tomatoes as well. The garden bed is turning out well.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1243965084&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. All other rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Stained Raised Garden Bed&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stained Raised Garden Bed\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;This garden bed is being custom built for a lady in the neighborhood. It&amp;#8217;s 9 feet long and two feet wide. It&amp;#8217;ll go in her back yard up against the house near their deck. She&amp;#8217;s planned quite a garden to go into the garden bed and says if it works out, she&amp;#8217;ll want another one built. There will be extensions on each end to hang flowers and upside-down tomatoes as well. The garden bed is turning out well.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Custom Bed Under Construction&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?fit=300%2C261&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?fit=604%2C527&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1557\" title=\"Stained Raised Garden Bed\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?resize=300%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Custom Bed Under Construction\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?resize=300%2C261&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?resize=150%2C130&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0943.jpg?w=860&amp;ssl=1 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Custom Bed Under Construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The custom-built raised garden bed is nearing completion. I&#8217;ll need to put another coat of stain on tomorrow morning. The other beds I&#8217;ve made I&#8217;ve used the Wagner PowerSprayer to put on the stain, but because the stain is so thin, it tends to run and to make splotches. So this time I decided to hand stain with a paintbrush. I won&#8217;t do that again! It took what seemed to be forever to get finished. Better is to spray on the stain and then use a brush to wipe up the runs.<\/p>\n<p>The green color in the picture is because of the lighting and the reflection from the wet driveway. It really isn&#8217;t green!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be going to the Farmers Market again this Saturday morning. I&#8217;m going to make up some small planter boxes and take them in for sale. Hopefully I can sell them on the spot. Pictures forthcoming when I&#8217;ve got a couple of them made (maybe tomorrow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The custom-built raised garden bed is nearing completion. I&#8217;ll need to put another coat of stain on tomorrow morning. The other beds I&#8217;ve made I&#8217;ve used the Wagner PowerSprayer to put on the stain, but because the stain is so thin, it tends to run and to make splotches. So this time I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Raised Garden Beds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-p6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}