Fact: If it were up to me I would fill the entire backyard with raised garden beds.
But the HH thought I was being a little ridiculous when I suggested filling the whole backyard with raised beds and that what we really needed was room for a table and chairs and a BBQ {and room to walk around!} in the backyard.
Not a mini farm. 😉
Yada yada yada…
So we compromised and put {4} 4’ x 8’ raised beds in the back.
But the space looked so lonely.
I told the HH it still needed a potting bench or at least somewhere I could store my watering cans and extra pots and well, before you know it I had found the perfect solution.
An elevated garden bed. With a storage rack underneath!!!
Check it out! Not only do I have more room to grow vegetables now {the garden bed is 2.5’x10’} but a proper place to store all my extra pots and watering supplies. And I LOVE that it is elevated too.
Apparently the bed will hold 2,000 lbs of soil, plants, and water.
Now we just need to move it to the back of the house, add soil and start planting. It’s hard to believe we were living in a frozen tundra just 6 weeks ago but here we are.
Ready to get this party started. Ready to start spending the majority of our days outside again. I love this time of year.
And I LOVE creating new gardens and growing vegetables!
Here’s hoping we all have a bountiful garden this summer.
~Mavis
Christa H. says
This is a fabulous set up. Can’t wait to see it all in place. Happy for you!
Katy @ Practical Walk says
What a great space-saving design! I’ve never seen one like that.
Sam says
I havectwo short beds that I didn’t get set up last year and hoping to this year but woke up to frozen tundra temps today. Brrr…the cold keeps halting garden efforts.
Margo says
Over the years we have added 7 elevated gardens (only about 18 inches resting on block) that my husband made for me from wood. I love them, and they have enabled me to continue raising veggies year round. I filled them with a mixture of peat moss, vermiculite, and compost and refresh them with compost yearly. Now that I’m a senior citizen with some limitations due to arthritis, it keeps me active and in the garden. I hope you have great success and enjoy it!
Richelle says
A set-up like you shared in the photo is what I consider to be a genuine raised bed! I’ve never understood why ground-level contained beds are called raised beds. If I have to bend over or squat down to work them, they’re not raised. Lol.
Erin says
I love the elevated bed & the storage! I debated getting one this year, but we settled on 3 of the vego ground beds in varying heights & sizes. One dedicated for the raspberries we inherited & that desperately need moved, another for strawberries & rhubarb (a cute 42” round bed!) & another 2.5’x9’ for this year’s tomatoes. We’ve mapped out next year’s garden and will get more of the vego beds then. The wood beds we inherited when we bought the house are on their very last leg. Hubby took two apart & patched a couple of the others, but it’s time for the metal beds upgrade in full force next year. I’m splurging for the 32” height for a couple of the new ones to make it more accessible for me.
joyce drayton says
Raised beds are the way to go…every year we added a few & stopped at 48 – they were great…no bending – at least by comparison, and lower maintenance. I mulched heavily with straw after the plants were established to reduce weeds & evaporation – be sure to leave drainage holes for those “rare” deluges so you you don’t get waterlogged beds…