Building a Planting Bed Picture Tutorial How to Build a Planting Bed

If your yard isn't satisfying, you're short on garden space, or you just want a small space dedicated to gardening, building a raised bed can be the solution. All the above questions. Now lets see how this is done.

Picture tutorial for building a planting bed. This manual DIY tutorial includes: quick methods, planning projects, building planting beds, and putting planting beds into use. If you want to learn how to build a planting bed, Take a look at the photo tutorial on building a planting bed from the Production Department to learn more!

Quick method

1Use an old wooden boat. Using a wooden boat can give your garden a unique look and can also help you pick up some building or carpentry skills. Search online on Craigslist or find a suitable boat at your local gear or sailing store.
- Find an old wooden paddle boat (or similar). This is perfect for use in the water, and its also very cheap.
- Paint it a color you like and drill a few holes in the bottom.
- Place it where you plan to place it, keeping it level. Trenching may be necessary.
- Put some garden plastic at the bottom, and some rocks or other filler material to make the bottom more stable.
- Put some soil and plants you like.
2Use an old wooden bed frame. You can buy antique bed frames to give your gardening beds a whimsical look. The downside, of course, is that its awkwardly tall, and if its too big, you'll have a hard time reaching the center of it. A double bed for children is a good idea.
- If you can only find suitable boards, place them under a reasonably sized bed.
- If the side panels of the bed frame are intact, you can simply addMore boards make a box. Measure the length of these boards and nail them. Fill with soil and plants.
3Use an old wine crate. Awine box, orange box or any similar box that can become a grow box. Drill some holes for drainage and fill it with soil and plants. Place them in your garden bed or on a flat or sloping table.

Planning projects

1Design the shape of your planting bed. Luckily, a flower bed doesn’t take a lot of effort! You basically just make a box with an open top and an open bottom, any shape will work. Imagine you are building a house out of cement (made of cement or plaster).
2Draw a sketch, measure the available garden space and add to your sketch. Now you can determine how much material you will need to build your planting bed.
3Decide which materials to use. You can use anything that can hold dirt. Wood, plastic, synthetic wood, railroad ties, bricks, stone, or some other possible material. However,Using wood is generally the easiest and most effective method. This article will focus on how to make from wood or synthetic wood.
4Put together the things you need and make a list. All you need is to cut the sides to the length you need and a height of at least 60 cm. If you want a triangular planting bed, you need three sides. If you want a square bed, you will need four sides of equal length. A rectangular bed needs four sides, each of which is the same length. You can choose whatever shape you want!

Building a planting bed

1Piling. Use a 4x4 with twice the bed height. Dig the hole and insert the 4x4 into the ground, anchoring it well. Make sure the 4x4 is level and in the right place.
2Add long side panels. Modify the dimensions of the side plates based on the length between the two piles, including the width of the piles themselves. Use nails or screws to secure the ends of the side panels and stakes together. Place the board to the same height as the intended height. Make the last board a little narrower if necessary.
3Add short side panels. Cut the distance between the short side panels based on the measured distance between the two long sides. Use nails or screws to secure the ends of the board and the stakes together again.
4Add a flange if necessary. Adding a flange to the planting bed will make it more attractive. First, make a picture frame type flange based on the width you want. Get a lumber post with a flange the width of it and nail it to the top of the bed.
5Cut some garden plastic or weed mat and place it in your planting bed. By placing some barriers you will greatly reduce the growth of weeds. Seven or eight layers of damp newspaper will also deter weed growth, as will electrical box cardboard (be sure to remove the tape from the cardboard).

Putting the planting bed into use

1Once your bed is moved to where you plan to place it, fill it with soil. Add some well-rotted organic fertilizer to the bottom of the bed and top with nutrient-rich compost potting soil. You can reduce the cost (50%) by using some of your own soil. Fill at least 1/3 with compost or well-rotted organic fertilizer (available from garden centers in 40-pound bags).
- Mix dry organic fertilizer (such as wood ash, bone meal, blood meal) when making the bed. Follow the instructions on the packaging.
2Start planting. Some people like to grow flowers in raised beds. Some people like to grow vegetables. You have many options. If you want to grow food, grow bedsAn excellent choice for leafy greens, carrots, onions, radishes, beets and other root vegetables.
3Protect your planting bed from the elements. Build a small organic spring/summer/autumn "greenhouse" to protect yourself from pests, perhaps using bent PVC pipes to create an arch over your bed. Arch dimensions are approximately 4-6 feet (1.2 to 1.8 meters).
- Purchase a piece of floating canopy, also called woven fabric, from a garden supply store or online, clip it to your arch, and you're guaranteed to have a pest-free, moisture-preserving house for growing food throughout the growing season.
- When your plant grows taller and covering is no longer practical, you can stop covering that part and use it to extend all the way to the ground where you can still cover. It may seem strange that sunlight, temperature and humidity can pass through the covering, but bugs and weed seeds cannot. Therefore, doing this can help you reduce the frequency of watering, weeding, and pesticide application.
- You can also use racks to create plastic netting to restrict bird access, but if you don't, your efforts may be in vain.

Tips

You can reduce the cost to almost nothing by replacing the soil with layers of grass and straw (cannot use hay as it contains seeds) or autumn leaves. Water this layer thoroughly before laying down the next layer. Once the bed is filled, you can plant the plants in the holes you dug. When the roots of the plant grow deeper than the hole, the compost material will begin to break down. If you plan to plant seeds, add a thin layer of potting soil or compost on top. Add additional compost material each season because the volume of compost material decreases as it decomposes.
Planting beds should be 2 to 4 feet (60 cm x 1.2 m) wide. In the case of 60 cm, the gardener can only enter the planting bed from one side, and in the case of 1.2 meters, the gardener can enter from both sides. Don't make it too wide as the gardener will need to gain access to the planting bed (thereby compacting the soil) or it may strain his shoulders.
Planting in beds is simpler than planting in the ground. If bending is difficult, the planting bed can be built higher or even to waist height. As long as its strong enough and watered. .
Make the planting bed narrower to help retain moisture.
Water your planting beds frequently. Because it is above ground, it does not retain moisture like soil above ground. Placing it near a water source will make watering easier.
Building a planting bed with two people is much faster and easier than one person.
Use your imagination when building planting beds. You can build a great planting bed out of junk wood, so don't be afraid to experiment. Planting beds are very useful and affordable.
Decorate your planting bed or even light it up to make it the centerpiece of your yard.
Consider using 5cm x 30.5cm wood, cut to length. If you put these on the sides and build a layer of boards over these, your planting bed will be about 60cm deep.
You can buy potting soil from a garden supply store and dig some soil around it, or buy a truckload of it from a wholesale store. Do some budgeting and decide which option is best. Store-bought potting soil is sterilized and free of weed seeds, but it can cost a lot if you buy a lot. There may be more weed seeds if the soil is dug from your yard, but the price is better.

Warning

Grown beds make an attractive toilet for cats. If you have rowdy cats near your home, plant some catnip to keep them away.
In some places, some wood on the ground may cause termite damage to nearby wooden structures.
Some older wood that was once pressure-treated—painted green, often used on exterior structures—may contain arsenic, a highly toxic carcinogen. Arsenic is no longer used to treat wood, however old wood may still contain this toxic substance. Arsenic is released when wood is sawed or burned, and may be released from wood when the soil is acidic or there is acid rain. While these woods last longer, you might stick with regular wood, especially for vegetable beds, and replace it every three to five years.
Newly treated wood no longer contains arsenic. However, reclaimed wood may still contain this chemical.

You need to prepare

Depending on the style of your bed (consider using 10cm x 10cm stakes, 60cm high, and 5cm x 30.5cm side panels)
Nails or screws
Hammer and screwdriver
Compost
Soil
Seeds or plant seedlings
Shovel
Rake
Barrier to block weeds (plastic liner or similar). Moisture barriers can also be used on the inside of both sides of the bed. This will greatly extend the life of the wood.
PVC pipe and plastic greenhouse (optional)
Compost (bought from store or farm)