How To Design Your Garden Bed
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How to design your garden bed. A longer bed will need more depth if possible. 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. A 12 foot by 100 foot bed will look proportional.
Outline the areas of your garden plot that you want to clear. A short bed doesn t need to be as deep a 3 foot by 8 foot bed will look right at home. 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.
Creating the best design for the space will protect your investment and enhance your home s exterior décor. Most home gardens are more likely to have beds that fall between 5 and 50 feet long. Here are the basics of clearing your garden spot.
Draw the existing landscape features on the graph paper to scale if possible. The proportions of the bed are important.