How To Design A Garden Bed

Unplanted soil can also be lost to erosion.

How to design a garden bed. They placed their box right up against their fence. Creating the best design for the space will protect your investment and enhance your home s exterior décor. The ideal depth is between 12 and 24 inches.

Fully packed soil can actually grow plants instead of weeds. Determine bed size and layout don t make your beds wider than 4 feet this way you can easily reach to the center. By building up the beds at their lowest sections like these stone raised beds you can create the illusion of a level garden.

Consider your garden bed an investment of both your time and money. Leave at least an 18 inch path between beds more if you want wheelbarrow access. A 12 foot by 100 foot bed will look proportional.

Build this raised garden bed 22. Make your beds wide enough so that you can still have a layered flower garden with a border of shrubs framing the back of the garden and plenty of room for perennials that will provide colors textures and edge softening drapes. The design of this garden bed is a basic one but they also show you how to add a protective cover for frost or birds which is always handy to help give your crop a fighting chance.

Open areas of the ground are bound to get weeds in them. Include your home driveway walkways patio porch deck and any other permanent features. Most home gardens are more likely to have beds that fall between 5 and 50 feet long.

This is a basic but gorgeous design for a planter box. To get your edges straight for a square or rectangular vegetable plot stretch a string between sticks and mark the line with a trickle of ground white limestone which is available at garden centers. Garden design is about layers and focal points but it is also about the dirt.