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Edie Family: Plan, Costs and Products Meet the Edie family and find out the gardening challenge plan. From "Garden Sense" episode DGAR-306

Walter and the Edie family

Meet Christine and Steve Edie. They live in a small Craftsman Bungalow, built in 1917 or 1918. She's very energetic and witty. He's low-key. Both are gardeners. Christine is working on her Master Gardener status and is interning at a children's garden in the Hamilton County Park System in Cincinnati. She'd like to have a more landscaped look in the backyard.

There's a small bed underneath their deck and a large, struggling vegetable bed in the yard. Christine and Steve built their own deck and now they want to finish the look with landscaping. They have asked Walter and the DIY Garden Sense team to help them refine the yard and develop a plan so they can enjoy the outside and their deck more.

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Gardening Challenge

Before--The Deck

Before--Vegetable Bed

After--The Deck

After--Side-yard Vegetable Bed

Required Project Timeline

The Edie family project took just over seven hours to complete.

Project Details

The Garden Sense DIY plan was designed to give the Edie family a finished backyard they wanted. To complete the project more than 50 plants are needed and many existing ones will be replanted.

First, the plan is to make the two garden beds into one. A rented tiller will help to turn the soil, of which some was good for planting, but other areas were tough clay and needed soil amendments to loosen it up.

Next, the bottom of the deck was covered and the vegetable bed was moved into sunshine. It was important to pay careful attention to the height of the plants when landscaping around the deck. The Garden Sense team wanted to hide but not overwhelm the deck. Be sure to make selections that won't be too short or for that matter too tall.

Finally, lots of color was added, mostly in pink hues--with a big collection of perennials.

Gardening by Zip Code If you're looking to start a gardening projectbut don't know your gardening zone—visit the National Gardening Associations's USDA Hardiness Zone Finder. Enter your Zip Code to identify the proper zone.

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