Salad Table! (with legs, soil and seeds)

Picking up where I left off, here is the hardware cloth being attached:



Hardware cloth is the heavier 1/2" wire grid, attached to reinforce the window screening, and very dangerous stuff. It made me think of something I once saw. Over the years of my work as a freelance graphic designer/print production specialist, I worked in many different office environments, many of which were inhabited by very creative people, not all in creative jobs. Creativity shows in details, right? I will never forget the tape-dispenser (roll of tape, toothed tape-ripper) that had been labeled by it's user: the words "blood-taker" written right below the teeth.

"Blood taker" is what I thought of while working with the hardware cloth. I wore gloves.

Here are my hospital corners:


Frame completed.

I forgot to take pictures through the process of the attachment of legs. But I will tell you that I first attached the table to the legs upside down. If you look carefully you might see the extra drill holes that were required to correct this. Or maybe I will have scrubbed them away in photoshop, but probably not.

Frame built, check.
Legs attached, check.
Legs re-attached correctly, check.
Soil-less growing media mixed and loaded into the frame, check.*
Seeds planted, check.
Rows labeled, check!



* Another goof, this time on the growing-media mix. I had NO IDEA how much soil would be needed to fill this table.
"It's only 4 inches deep! This huge bag of compost and these large bags of perlite and peat moss will definitely be enough."
Wrong.
So I filled the section to the far right (which is the far left on the picture to follow) and planted seeds. Then back to the garden shop for more of everything.

The salad table is now filled and seeded. And the first section which was planted 4 days ago has sprouted!!

Each section has 3 rows, so altogether there are:
2 rows each of leaf lettuce/Grand Rapids, leaf lettuce/Salad Bowl, and butter lettuce;
and 3 rows of arugula:



The arugula sprouted first, and fast!!
All those white globs are the perlite, which i believe helps to lighten the soil and allow for air. The mix in the first section ended up with big chunks of it, which I have since weeded out.
Oh! Don't say weeds!!



So there you have it. In a month I should be eating bowls of greens grown right in my own backyard, watered and harvested while standing up!!
You could call it Lazy-woman's garden, but building the thing was no lazy-woman's job!!