How To Build A Raised Garden Bed Out Of Landscape Timbers

Later we pulled the edges of the fabric up to the second set up timbers to block grass and weeds from growing out the base between the timbers.

How to build a raised garden bed out of landscape timbers. Well show you how to install a series of garden beds out. Since these timbers are our preferred material to use when we built our raised vegetable beds I will explain how you can build one too. Landscape timbers are pretty thick and heavy.

Build a Garden Tool Shed With Landscape Timber. Terracing a slope can help with drainage problems but it can also add functional gardening space. Normally 6 x 6 beams of landscape timbers are used for installing retaining walls in the garden where you want to make flower beds in it.

These directions will be for a bed that will be about one foot tall or four pieces of timber tall. For large beds over 10 feet in diameter 4-by-4- or 6-by-6-inch lumber is in order while a 2-foot-diameter bed could be built with. This Raised Garden Bed project was fun and easy to make.

You can build it in any sunny level spot or you can excavate a slightly sloping location to create a level surface though this adds to the digging. Choose a flat sunny spot to build your raised garden bed. How to Build a Raised Bed with Landscape Timbers.

You should place 2 thick planks of landscape timbers to make a naturally raised area for your flower bed. Screw the butted ends to make a simple box. In the pictures here the bed is 16 long and 4 wide.

Select a Location and Assemble the Kit. Then we stretched landscape fabric over the bottom of the bed to keep grass and weeds from coming up and growing out the sides. We tacked the fabric to the timber to hold it in place.