Grow Your Plants in Raised Garden Beds

Raised garden beds make gardening easier and more efficient, hence more and more people want to have these kinds of gardens. Raised garden beds also act as a great barrier for garden pests and insects. They are often simple and inexpensive to build and many can even be created from re-purposed or recycled parts.

Here are some great DIY Raised Garden Beds for vegetables and other crops, that you can make for your backyard.

1. Cut 55 gallon juice drum in half lengthwise, then mount them into a wooden stand.

2. Parsley, strawberries, eggplants and tomatoes are all plants that would be perfect for these wooden pallets.

3. Rustic and almost free, log raised bed is easy to build, and if you want to raise the height, just need to stack more logs above each other.

4. Use corrugated steel sheets to make raised beds.

5. Customize your garden box with as few or as many crates that best fits your space.

6. Make a spiral raised bed and grow herbs in it, you can also grow other plants and vegetables also.

7. Go for beauteous gabion raised garden beds.

8. Growing edibles in tires may be harmful, but you can grow other plants with them.

9. Build a raised garden bed using recycled concrete rubble.

10. Turn a dull corner of your garden into an attractive feature by setting a raised bed built from breeze blocks.

11. Bale of wheat or alfalfa straws can be used to build walls of raised beds.

12. Build these funnel shaped raised beds using pallets.

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