Back Story, I recycled a bunch of wood from a job site last summer and built a Dog house that the kids turned into a clubhouse playhouse using the wood and a truck cap that was left in my backyard. wish I wish I took more pictures but I was drinking a fair bit that day.
This is the wood I collected from the job site. all D grade never treated wood.
here is the side of the frame I have the truck cap propped up this was just before I put it on the actual frame
here is the back of the finished product
side picture of the finished product.
here is the front of the finished product.
now I didn't take many pictures as I was trying to get this setup as fast as possible so Bert could enjoy some sun today and before I had to get the kids from school. I wanted to move this closer to the house/deck, but I wasn't able to move it on my own without taking it apart and my wife put her foot down and said it could stay in the corner
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What I did was remove the Truck cap, I dug a 6" trench and fit the walls in the trench, the way i build this frame was with 2x4s and then 1x2 on the outside this worked in my favour because it creates a lip so my box turtles cannot climb over and because it is dug in 6" if they tried to dig under they would hit the bottom 2x4 from the frame so they can't dig under. I used the soil from the trenches inside the enclosure to help increase the depth about 1-2" but I may add more dirt/soil or something else.
here is Bert Roaming around the enclosure once it was set where I wanted it, there is still dirty piled up and not really evened out yet, you can also notice the doorway was still open. My 10-year-old and 5 years old helped me use some of the 1x2s and 2x4s to cover this up.
here I tried to use an old toboggan as a water spot but he just couldn't get out, I may come back to this and use rocks but right now I'm going to look for another option. (if you have ideas of what I can use that isn't a flower pot holder feel free to comment your idea, I want something large and possibly slopped.)
I tossed 2 large plastic floor pots in the ground with dirt, and the black one has some dead grass and Bert is hiding in it as the Enclosure was covered in shade at this point. there is a chunk of the grass that I dug out when I was doing the trench, I also added some old Tile I haven't decided if I will be using it to feed or just as a different surface.
I plan on getting plants and adding Lettuce seeds, and I want to plant these grass seeds
I won't be using any type of fertilizer as I never have but is it safe to plant seeds in here? Also, I haven't decided on what type of lid I'm going to build I might build something tall so I can walk in or I might build something simple that goes over and locks that I can slide off when I need it.
any and all suggestions or tips welcomed thanks for reading
This is the wood I collected from the job site. all D grade never treated wood.
here is the side of the frame I have the truck cap propped up this was just before I put it on the actual frame
here is the back of the finished product
side picture of the finished product.
here is the front of the finished product.
now I didn't take many pictures as I was trying to get this setup as fast as possible so Bert could enjoy some sun today and before I had to get the kids from school. I wanted to move this closer to the house/deck, but I wasn't able to move it on my own without taking it apart and my wife put her foot down and said it could stay in the corner
.What I did was remove the Truck cap, I dug a 6" trench and fit the walls in the trench, the way i build this frame was with 2x4s and then 1x2 on the outside this worked in my favour because it creates a lip so my box turtles cannot climb over and because it is dug in 6" if they tried to dig under they would hit the bottom 2x4 from the frame so they can't dig under. I used the soil from the trenches inside the enclosure to help increase the depth about 1-2" but I may add more dirt/soil or something else.
here is Bert Roaming around the enclosure once it was set where I wanted it, there is still dirty piled up and not really evened out yet, you can also notice the doorway was still open. My 10-year-old and 5 years old helped me use some of the 1x2s and 2x4s to cover this up.
here I tried to use an old toboggan as a water spot but he just couldn't get out, I may come back to this and use rocks but right now I'm going to look for another option. (if you have ideas of what I can use that isn't a flower pot holder feel free to comment your idea, I want something large and possibly slopped.)
I tossed 2 large plastic floor pots in the ground with dirt, and the black one has some dead grass and Bert is hiding in it as the Enclosure was covered in shade at this point. there is a chunk of the grass that I dug out when I was doing the trench, I also added some old Tile I haven't decided if I will be using it to feed or just as a different surface.
I plan on getting plants and adding Lettuce seeds, and I want to plant these grass seeds
I won't be using any type of fertilizer as I never have but is it safe to plant seeds in here? Also, I haven't decided on what type of lid I'm going to build I might build something tall so I can walk in or I might build something simple that goes over and locks that I can slide off when I need it.
any and all suggestions or tips welcomed thanks for reading
