Just finished building a couple of planters for next season's strawberries. Because we don't want to use treated wood to grow things in I used macrocarpa for the wood surround because it is naturally resistant to rot. Macrocarpa is part of the cypress family (more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressus_macrocarpa).
Here is the pictorial story. What you can't see very well in the pictures is the sweat it took to build these planters.Getting the fill was easy enough with the tractor. I just filled the bucket with good soil and transferred it into the planters with a wheelbarrow.
The planters are layered with compost, old hay
, manure and top soil with some dolomite lime on top.Once the planters were filled we let the soil settle for a few days, after which we planted the strawberry plants.
This was topped off with some bird netting to keep the birds from eating all our strawberries when they ripen.
