Building beds

The kids and I built two 4'x4' garden beds this morning. We took 8' long 2x6 pieces of wood and Tom cut them in half for us last night, then we drilled pilot holes in one end of each and screwed the pieces together in a square. We will take these down to the veggie garden, place wet newspaper under it to kill the grass/weeds and then fill with dirt, mulch, compost, straw and leaves. We will cover it with black plastic to "cook" the mixture until we are ready to plant in it. In our region (zone 7), we should be able to put most crops out in early-mid April, some sooner.

We have more beds to build! These are for the paste tomatoes and the chard/eggplant/peppers/herbs bed. We also need the following:
5 - 4'x6' beds for beans, broccoli and tomatoes
1 - 6'x6' bed for corn
1- 8'x6' 12" deep bed for asparagus, carrots, garlic, etc...

So, by my calculations, we still need to get 9-12' long and 9-8' long 2"x6" lumber. Eeek!