raised beds - Fine Gardening
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Design
A Bee-utiful Backdrop for a Productive Garden in Denver
Happy Monday GPODers! We're getting real artsy today with a submission from Tracy Lewis in Denver, Colorado. Tracy has been growing vegetables in her garden for several years now, producing…
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Design
A Stunning Modern Landscape Design for a Contemporary Home
This modern Seattle home was built on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Zone 8b. When I first took on the project, the steel-and-glass house stood on a dirt-and-gravel work…
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How-To
Why to Use Raised Garden Beds, Especially in Extreme Climates
My first foray into gardening was many years ago when my husband and I joined another couple in renting a community garden plot in Arlington, Virginia. We inherited the worst…
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Design
GPOD on the Road: Buffalo Garden Walk
Today Barb Mrgich is taking us along on a walking tour of gardens. A couple years ago, a friend and I took a bus trip to visit the Buffalo Garden…
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Design
Gardens of a Philadelphia Townhouse
I am Rich from Philadelphia. I am sharing some images from the gardens of our 1812 Federal-style townhouse. There is a front yard, which is located in the middle of…
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Design
Small Space, Big Yields
Today we’re headed to Canada to visit a garden that proves you don’t need a lot of space to grow a lot of food. My name is Lindsay, and I…
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How-To
A Stylish Raised Bed Almost Anyone Can Build
By now, we all know the perks of raised beds. They are an aesthetically pleasing way to grow edibles and cut flowers. Because they are essentially large containers, you can…
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Kitchen Gardening
Meet Tara Nolan, Raised Bed Revolutionary
Tara Nolan knows how to raise the profile of a traditional vegetable garden into something special. Her new book leads the charge for gardeners wanting to join the "Raised Bed…
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Design
Stylish Raised Bed Ideas
If you want more than the standard box, here's how to kick it up a notch
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How-To
Are Pressure Treated Woods Safe in Garden Beds?
Gardeners have used pressure-treated wood for decades in raised beds and as posts, but on December 31, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the sale of lumber treated with…