How Do You Construct A Raised Planting Bed?
If your yields are disappointing, your garden space isn’t as productive as you’d like, or if you only have a small space to devote to gardening, building a raised bed may be the answer to all of your problems. Raised beds are extremely easy to build. They are great for vegetables and flowers because they allow you to artificially provide substantially more topsoil, which will help plants to thrive and flourish. • Visualize and then design the shape of your raised bed. Luckily, a raised bed doesn’t take much! You basically build an open topped and open bottomed box, and you can do it in any shape that you want. Think of yourself as building a form to pour soil into (like one might pour cement or plaster into a form). • Draw your planned bed, measure your available garden space, and add the measurements onto your drawing. Now you’ll be able to determine how much material you’ll need to build the bed. • Decide on what you want to make your raised bed out of. You can use just about anythin
• Visualize and then design the shape of your raised bed. Luckily, a raised bed doesn’t take much! You basically build an open topped and open bottomed box, and you can do it in any shape that you want. Think of yourself as building a form to pour soil into (like one might pour cement or plaster into a form). Loading… • Draw your planned bed, measure your available garden space, and add the measurements onto your drawing. Now you’ll be able to determine how much material you’ll need to build the bed. • Decide on what you want to make your raised bed out of. You can use just about anything that will hold dirt. You can use lumber, plastic, synthetic wood, railroad ties, bricks, rocks, or a number of other items to hold the dirt. However, using lumber is generally the easiest and most efficient method. This article will focus on making a raised bed out of lumber or synthetic lumber. Gather your needed supplies. A full list of supplies is below under Things You’ll Need. All that you real
