Lovely Raised Gardens!

Hello my sparkly friends!

Well, Mother's Day is officially over... so that means it's time to

 get your plants in the ground if you live in the North East

 like me and the Pixies.

 I really wish sometimes that I lived in a place 

with an extended growing season, but I really DO LOVE having the snow in the winter, even though we had none this year.

So let's talk about raised gardening. 

 I have a side lawn that has full sun in my front yard 

(where the  pile of topsoil with weeds

 growing on it that became known as the

 "Huge lawn weed chia pet burial mound" 

and had my husband threatening me with Preen when i wasn't looking to get rid of the weeds  to  stop the neighbors from whispering about us) 

 is located.
The great lesson it taught me is to buy topsoil only in bags,
Especially if you are planning to grow veggies in your raised bed because the bulk topsoil comes from various locations and you have no idea what kind of pesticides and chemicals it contains!
 So I am planning to create raised beds in which I will raise lots of vegetables

and decorate with flowers so they will be pretty too!
I was planning on making rectangular ones like this

and lining them with chicken wire on the base so I don't have to worry about burrowing critters, and will use white pebbles in between and around the beds.
Then I will make a pretty flower bed close to the curb.
Easy Peasy- right??
But I really keep falling in love with the circular ones...
Help me choose!!!

The images I used in this blog are from Pinterest. 
 If you would like the source, 
visit my Pinterest board
 "Raised Gardens" 
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Outdoor Wednesday 
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