Not As Creepy As It Looks

I have almost always had a vegetable garden.  In fact, back in the 80's, I gardened about 3000 sq. feet of vegies and gladiolas (3 and 4 year old Ellie was my flower salesgirl at the local florists).  The size changed over the years, but always found space for at least a couple tomato plants.  Before moving to Moss Hollow, we had a real nice plot in Virginia. It had been a garden before we had it and we had access to lots of well rotted horse manure.  We had all the vegies we could handle plus plenty for our landlord, Walter Scott, and the girls at Kelli Temple's barn.

Now, Moss Hollow is pretty much just trees and rocks and, of course, moss.  But vegies need sun.
Behind the shop, in front of the septic tank, is a pretty sunny spot.  That's where we're going to put the little garden.  The raised beds we did in Virginia worked great, so that is the plan here, too.  So here we go:  A small raised bed, 4X8ish, 2X8 sides.  I got a load of compost from a guy in Carterville: Good Earth Compost, to help the soil.  We do have rabbits (go figure, in the woods?), so we needed to fence it.  We had some nice decorative fence sections that we used in Georgia (and moved a couple of thousand miles); kind of fancy, but we had it.  A basic, purely functional vegie garden, right?

I'm sure it will look different with a bunch of green stuff growing in there.  Luckily, it's not visible from the road.  You would have to go around the back of our building to see the "family plot".