Progress! Our hot dip galvanized steel planter boxes and stair risers were delivered by Rhode Island Welding just a few days ago and our buddies at Savage Trucking helped us set them in place. Here’s all the heavy metal action you missed out on.
Rhode Island Welding drove up with our load of steel…
The Savages unloaded everything with their big digger…
Rich helped maneuver the boxes into the driveway…
It required a little layout to make sure everything pieced together correctly. Figuring out which end was “up” was a little challenging…
Then the boxes were hoisted up to the top of the retaining wall to their new home…
Each box was constructed to fit the angles of our crazy slope, so they had to be fitted together just right — like the pieces of a puzzle.
Once everything was in place, Smithfield Peat delivered 7 yards of planting soil — 60% compost, 40% screened loam, per my request. Since the backhoe was still there, we were able to avoid lugging the soil up the slope shovel by shovel. You rock, Savages!
They’re a little bit taller than I’d pictured, but all in all the new steel boxes look awfully pretty…
And they’ll probably last longer than I will.
Ready for planting! Our tomatoes will be thrilled.
Tags: garden, hardscape, landscaping, steel
“loam”
How do you pronounce it?
Lots of Rhode Islanders, including the boys with the big trucks say “l-oo-m” (rhymes with TOMB). I bite my tongue because I know that it should be “l-owe-m” (rhymes with FOAM)
No matter, just fun
The final picture of the boxes from the street is amazing. They look great
“lome”… always lome. unless you’re a local. hey, wait a minute — YOU’RE a local. go figure. i suppose some people might not like the look of galvanized but i do. i think once the gravel and edging are in, espaliers added and the icky pale green paint on the house is replaced with a warm gray stain, the whole thing will pull together nicely. at least, that’s the plan. :)
“lome”… always lome. unless you’re a local. hey, wait a minute — YOU’RE a local. go figure. thanks for the compliment. there are a few of us who actually like the look of galvanized steel, yay! i think once the gravel and edging are in, espaliers added and the icky pale green paint on the house is replaced with a warm gray stain, the whole thing will pull together nicely. at least, that’s the plan. :)
We was raised right in our house.
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