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    Home » Video

    How To Build A Raised Garden Bed - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 2 Comments

    Learn how to build a raised garden bed in this video we made while building some for our own vegetable garden. This isn't rocket science, not hard to do at all. Watch the video and start building.

    Steps To Build A Raised Garden Bed

    • Figure out the size of the bed.
    • Purchase the lumber and hardware.
    • Assemble the bed.
    • Add soil and plant.

    I like to build 4' wide raised beds. The width is good for me, I can reach across the bed from either side. Plus, this width is great if you use floating row fabric or plastic mulch. You can cut the fabric to one width for all your beds. The mini greenhouse I built drops right on top of these beds. So yeah, I like this width.

    Build A Raised Garden Bed

    For brackets to attach the sides of the bed, I use whatever I have. Shelf brackets, angle brackets, or the metal brackets you use for roof trusses, use what you got. They will all work and last longer than the wood itself.

    Build A Raised Garden Bed

    Position the lumber where you want the bed to be, and build it in place. Don't worry about making the bed super level. You can shovel out high spots, and some dirt will come out the bottom of the bed to fill in low spots.

    After you are happy with the placement and assembly, drive in some pipes or rebar or metal stakes in the middle of each long board and secure with metal banding. This keeps the sides of the bed from warping out. You could use wood stakes, but I wouldn't, it wont hold as well.

    Build A Raised Garden Bed

    What kind of soil do I fill the raised bed with? I'm a big fan of the lasagna gardening method of filling up raised beds. Again its some of the 'use what you got' thing here, but assemble a mess of cardboard, straw, compost, soil. Watch this video.

    If you don't want to do the lasagna method, don't use pure top soil, see if someone nearby sells a garden soil, its needs to have a mix of materials, not straight topsoil. Let me know your comments or questions below.

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    1. Andrea Chiesa

      May 07, 2018 at 4:43 pm

      Hey Eirc,
      I got a blueberry bush question. So I bought My House two years ago and just discovered blueberry bushes. I think I am a little late in pruning back the bushes.
      I do see good size buds and I am trying to recover them. Can I still cut them back or is it too late and leave them. Do they need feeding? Mulching?
      Hey! Watched the YouTube thing a day late and was great! Love what you do.
      Andrea Chiesa
      Northeast Kingdom VT

    2. Eric

      June 15, 2018 at 8:57 am

      you can prune the blueberries whenever you have the pruners in your hand. thx!

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