Once the great cleanup was done and the bulk of the rubbish left by the previous owners removed from Purgatory, I went about collecting bathtubs. When the Doc lived here, there were horses on the property and bathtubs were used as water troughs, so I put the forks on Giggles to gather them all up and deposit them in the future North Garden–aka where the awful deck over the septic tank once sat.
Six bathtubs and a concrete stationary tub were assembled and sat waiting for the garden to start taking shape.
As you can kind of see, we put down wire netting to help curb ground squirrels from making a total mess of the new garden area. I then called down to Payless Rockery for some topsoil, which I spread over the area and atop the mounds of concrete rubble placed to break up the general flatness of the area and provide a sort of endpoint for the new garden, so it didn’t just abruptly end where the layers of wood chips begin.