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Elevate Your Garden Design with Ornamental Raised Beds

Raised garden beds are a popular trend in landscaping and gardening for good reason – they offer many benefits and design possibilities beyond a typical in-ground garden Ornamental raised beds can transform your yard into an eye-catching focal point and bring new life to plantings, Read on to explore why ornamental raised beds deserve a … Read more

Creative Ways to Use Pots in Garden Beds

Growing plants in pots can be a challenge, but when successful, they can add depth and interest to a garden. In this article I’ll share some of the ways that I use pots and containers to enhance the design of my garden. Garden beds are a great way to organize and beautify your outdoor space. … Read more

How to Use Bricks to Make a Raised Garden Bed

Gardening is a hobby that’s good for both body and mind. Tending growing plants is a meditative, contemplative process that (for me at least) provides something beautiful to focus on when the world is hard to process. And home-grown produce almost always tastes better than store-bought because it’s picked when it’s perfectly ripe. There’s also … Read more

How to Build a Raised Garden Bed on a Slope

Slopes and hills in your yard can make planting a vegetable garden challenging. Level ground is ideal for gardens, but sometimes the only suitable spot has a slope. Rather than trying to level the ground or build terraces, you can build raised garden beds on the slope. With a few simple construction techniques, you can … Read more

The Perfect Raised Bed Depth for Growing Potatoes

Growing potatoes in raised beds is by far our most successful potato growing method to date, requiring minimal effort for exceptional yields. Each 4 x 8 foot raised bed produced 50 to 60 pounds of potatoes, without fertilizer, irrigation, or weeding. We’ve been growing potatoes (or trying to) for the past decade on in our … Read more

Build Your Own DIY U-Shaped Raised Garden Bed

This step by step diy project is about diy raised garden bed plans. I designed this large U-shaped raised garden bed so you can grow vegetables and flowers in your own backyard. The garden bed is built using 2×10 beams and 2×2 posts. Make sure you don’t buy treated lumber and don’t apply toxic treatments … Read more