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25 Beautiful Curved Raised Garden Bed Ideas to Enhance Your Outdoor Space

Curved raised garden beds are a gorgeous way to add flair and functionality to any outdoor space. Their flowing, organic shapes create visual interest while maximizing planting area. Curved beds also allow easy access from all sides compared to traditional straight raised beds. In this article, we’ll explore 25 stunning curved raised garden bed ideas … Read more

Providing Shade for Raised Garden Beds: A Complete Guide

Raised garden beds offer many benefits for growing vegetables, flowers herbs and other plants. The elevated design improves drainage allows control of the soil quality, and makes gardening more accessible. But one challenge raised beds present is full sun exposure. The confined structure can bake tender plants in hot summer light. Shade is an important … Read more

The Complete Guide to Filling Tall Raised Garden Beds

Gardening with raised beds is my preferred method. When you’re doing raised bed gardening, you can control your soil type easily. Your beds warm up faster in the spring. You’ll have less weeds and an easier time clearing out those which do appear. The soil doesn’t become compacted like an in-ground bed. But there’s one … Read more

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