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Hhmmm. . . I think there’s a definite theme running here.\u00a0 Notice how many of the blog posts talk about re-doing things?\u00a0 Yep, lots and lots of mistakes lead to lots and lots of changes and do-overs.<\/p>\n

You remember the post a few months ago about the children’s riddle “This is the House that Jack Built?”\u00a0 It goes something like, “this is the dog that worried the cat, this is the cat that chased the rat, this is the rat that ate the malt . . .”\u00a0 Well, this is another one of those domino projects that all started from a simple lack of compost to make a strawberry bed wide enough.\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 Yep, for real.<\/p>\n

If I could just talk someone into giving me a million dollars so I have enough money to do things the right way the first time around that would be great!\u00a0 Of course, that would also mean that this blog would be over and out as of now.\u00a0 The thing about this blog is – most folks are just like us – not a lot of funds, a huge desire to live off the land and rather limited experience.\u00a0 So, on the bright side, every time we re-do and sometimes “re-re-do,” we’re giving hope to everyone else out there who’s trying to change their lives without a rich uncle to hand over a cool million.<\/p>\n

So back to the strawberry bed and all the following changes.\u00a0 What started out as a simple plan to have a strawberry bed next to the rock wall out the back door and terraced beds going up the slope from the strawberries to the main netted garden bed at the top turned into something else.\u00a0 The “something” was a project reworked several times.\u00a0 First, there wasn’t enough compost so it ended up being a too narrow strawberry bed.\u00a0 Then, the three terraced beds above the strawberries were going to be made from young trees we had cut down when we first moved here a year ago.\u00a0 I loved the concept of re-purposing the tree trunks as well not having to shell out a bunch of money for lumber.<\/p>\n

You probably remember all this from a previous post where I was in the process of moving those tree terraces a bit further up the hill to make room for the strawberries.\u00a0 But guess what?\u00a0 Uneven tree trunks tend not to stay in place, no matter how much Rebar you use to hold them up.<\/p>\n