How To Make A Raised Garden Bed On A Slope

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How to make a raised garden bed on a slope. Youll be much happier and spend a lot less time. Of course since these photos were taken. Building a terraced vegetable garden is basically making raised beds on a slope and its important to start at the bottom and work your way up. Setup your raised beds so the long sides run parallel to the slope and dig into the hillside rather than build out to create a firm foundation below planters.

Raised beds for a sloping vegetable garden. While building a raised bed garden on a slope has its challenges its totally worth the effort when you can harvest your first cherry tomato and slice the first cucumber. Some sites may need only a low stone wall to transform them into good gardening space while others will require compact beds stacked up like boxes. Please practice hand washing and social distancing and check out our resources for adapting to these times.

I did 2 boards high to accommodate the cross slope. Raised bed on a slope. Below is my current favorite system for building a raised garden bed with tapered sides. Dont worry about leveling the entire area just make a trench where the planter sides will be placed and level.

Building raised garden beds on a slope is simple with a bit of digging. If you want to make raised beds similar to these you can pick a flat site and get away with doing them one board high instead of 2. Knowing that everything we used was safe and as natural as possible gives me peace of mind. I am looking to put together a couple of raised garden beds 4x8 each that are built into a slope.

The project is simplified by building the bed in place requiring no measuring of the slope grade and can be built working alone you dont need someone on the other end to hold boards or move the finished bed in place. Stay safe and healthy.