Raised Garden Bed Against House Siding

Diy raised garden beds.

Raised garden bed against house siding.

Railroad ties are found throughout the united states as garden beds stairs and other landscape features. Recycling is great for the environment and in some cases can be great for your raised bed as well but certain recycled materials should be avoided when building your raised bed. And the paint still looks great too. This raised garden bed allows you to do just that.

Precise planning is involved to prevent a variety of problems that may come with foundation plantings. It will keep the back of the bed from rotting due to moisture trapped between the house and the raised bed. A planting bed next to your house can sometimes lead to excess dirt on the brick or siding. Even more so it is also portable.

If you decide you want it somewhere else from year to year you just have to move it. So if you don t like the idea of something permanent then you don t have to worry about that in this case. It s not simply planting shrubs against your house. Personally i like the separation.

Build this raised garden bed 11. Fiber cement makes outstanding raised beds if you paint it with 2 coats of first class exterior acrylic latex paint. In some climates it can also cause mildew and may even lead to an increased rate of decay on wood siding. It looks like your siding could be wood and putting wood up against other wood is never a good idea insects rot and fungi can run amok in all that dark and damp.