A Beautiful Homemade Raised Garden

Oh, a dream for any cook or gardener!  Wonderful!  That's one that I would copy.

isn't it gorgeous, Mam D?  This particular one was built on the side of the driveway....didn't take too much room at all!

This is absolutely fantastic, and I agree with Madame Donna....what a dream!

Oh!  You would have such fun with this, j r!  Quite a step-up from your container gardens, yes?

I'm green with envy... I have raised beds but am rather new at gardening, and my beds this year aren't very impressive.   My husband used to do all the gardening but is unable to do so any longer.

gail, wouldn't it be great if you could slowly build this with the help of a friend or workman?  So glad you liked this!

wow now that is nice!

Thanks, Angela!

The hoop and cover system is great to work with. What I like best about this method is that it can be adapted to any climate---hot or cold. We use white row cloth over hoops to provide shade to "cool" down leafy crops in mid-summer---it keeps our lettuces and spinach from "bolting". With tomato plants, we add jugs of water around each tomato plant to act as solar collectors and here in the mountains we keep our tomato plants covered as protection against cool nights and late frosts. The water jugs collect heat and the cloth holds the temperature above 55 degrees at night, which is essential for getting a good tomato crop.

I love the rainwater collection bucket you show in the photo with the drip irrigation hose leading to the base of the plants.  I will have to adapt that for our use. Very clever.

perfect, Natalie!  The floating cover works wonders, I hear, and in this climate between two mountains, it's very necassary to have a back up plan.  Love your passive solar response to tomato gardening!

I love the hoops.  What an easy way to cover if you have to.  I usually look like I have this huge floating plastic tent over mine when I have to cover them..lol  I love the idea for the rain water collection.

I know what you mean, Kim!  So many years of floating sheets or plastic over long-legged tomato plants meant some broken branches.  Wish I could build this one ASAP!

Thanks for showing us this great garden ! Very unique.

Glad you enjoyed, phil!  Thank you for coming by to check it out!

Wow - now thats a cool veggie garden. The rainwater collection is ingenious.

Rose, I seem to recall it always rains in your part of Florida at 4 pm, yes?  That bucket should help with keeping the plants watered!  Thanks!

That's really nice and compact

Isn't it, Marianne?  Very tidy and easy to weed!

Beautiful, Katrina!

Thanks, Shannon!  I think it's just a wonderful design!

If I had more room I would love to have my husband build this for me! Since we are only renting right now...my space is very limited.

I am also renting, Priscilla, and there is very little good sun here for a garden , even though there's 90 acres!  Mostly forest, so I doubt it would be a good gardening solution for me.  But - who knows?  Maybe it could work out somewhere.....

What an amazing garden set up Katrina!! I bet that was a lot of hard work.

Isn't it great, Rose? My friend's husband is a contractor - and a very good one, which helps!

I would love to sit next to it and listen to the garden grow.

Wouldn't that be heaven, Linda?    The other big plus to this garden is how it's intensively planted - very few weeds to pull....

That is some  kind of beautiful speciman garden.

I agree, Priscilla - glad you enjoyed!

what a great use of resources!!  someone knows what they're doing.  i love it & may have to take a few of those ideas & use them here at my house.  thanks bunches for sharing.  :)

Thanks, Michelle!  Always good to see a great design coupled with good workmanship!

This is so cool!

Glad you enjoyed, Sherrie!