Garden Table

Country girl with her garden table. The salad table is in addition to a large garden, it is perfect for lettuce, spinach and other leafy greens.
Below are directions for building the planting table.

The garden table is 33 inches wide by 58 inches long, you will need the following tools and materials:
Untreated framing lumber: two 10-foot-long two-by-fours and two 12-foot-long two-by-fours
2 1/2-inch galvanized deck screws
3/8-inch staples
1 pound of 1-inch roofing nails
3-by-5-foot roll of aluminum window screening
3-by-5-foot roll of 1/2-inch mesh hardware cloth (galvanized wire mesh; comes in a roll)
Handsaw
Hammer
Tape measure
Square
Tin snips
Staple gun
Drill

Garden Table How-To Make It:

1. Make the frame by taking two 58-inch two-by-fours and attaching them to two 30-inch two-by-fours with galvanized screws. The two interior cross pieces are attached 18 3/4-inches from each end of the long piece, making three equal sections.
2. Staple window screen on the outside bottom of the frame.
3. Center the hardware cloth over the window screen; pull it taught and staple to the frame bottom.
4. Nail roofing nails around the frame for added support.

5. If you want the additional braces at the bottom and sides you will need extra 2 x 4's to brace it like in the picture.

Soil: The best growing medium is 50 percent soilless mix and 50 percent high-quality compost. The commercial soilless mix usually contains peat, perlite, and vermiculite, but new organic soilless mixes contain coir (shredded coconut fibers) and rice hulls. Work water into the soilless mixes to get them moistened. Then, combine the soilless mix evenly with the compost and fill the frame to the top -- it will settle some, and that's fine.

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