• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Home Garden Joy
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Gardening
    • Seed Starting
    • Composting Basics
    • Vegetable Garden
    • Grow Fruit
    • Herb Garden
  • Recipes
    • Canning and Food Preservation
    • Vegetarian Meals
    • Salad Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Dinner Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
  • Classes
  • Books
    • Books for Christian Herbalists
  • About
    • Advertise with Us
    • Awards and Accolades
    • Privacy Policy

Collection of Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Resources

April 27, 2015 by Jeanne

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share
0 Shares
vegetable_gardening

See the collection on HomeTalk

HomeTalk asked me to curate a collection of resources for gardeners seeking clever ideas for raised bed vegetable gardens. I put together the following list of 16 articles, with lots of pictures, to help you plan your raised bed garden this year. All of these articles were created by a group of gardeners who contribute to the HomeTalk site.

A few of the more creative ideas I especially loved:

  1. Making an old baby crib into a raised bed garden: How many times do you see an old-fashioned wooden baby crib for sale at a garage sale, yard sale, or flea market? I’ve always wondered what you would do with one of these cribs. After all, they aren’t suitable for babies anymore – they aren’t safe. Little fingers can get caught in those rickety wooden slats. So what do you do with them? You transform them into gardens! I love this idea. I like using old household items in the garden. I’ve seen boots nailed to trees to use as bird houses, bed frames used for – what else? planting beds, and old bicycles painted brilliant colors as garden accents. These are all adorable ideas, but nothing tops the raised bed crib!
  2. Painted tires stacked for a raised bed:  Sometimes I see old tires dropped off by the side of the road around here in my rural part of the world, and it makes me sad, not just to see the littering but to know that they should have been recycled. Well, now I can gather them up, spray paint them, and recycle them into raised beds. What a clever idea to grow potatoes…I can also use them as planters. I have a feeling my yard is going to start looking like Sanford & Sons.
  3. Ideas to convert raised beds into greenhouses and cold frames: I touch on this idea in my book, Plan and Build a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden, but many of the gardeners contributing to HomeTalk have found even more clever shortcuts to create greenhouses. Hoop houses, all season greenhouse tunnels…the ideas are wonderful.

I hope you enjoy these boards on HomeTalk. Please be sure to follow me on HomeTalk and to say hello to the fabulous gardeners who contribute their ideas!

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Filed Under: Vegetable Garden Tagged With: raised bed vegetable gardens

Previous Post: « Flower Garden Design Ideas
Next Post: New Knock Out Roses »

Reader Interactions

Trackbacks

  1. Pathways for a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden - Home and Garden Joy says:
    June 11, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    […] Collection of Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Links […]

  2. Is Rain Water Better for Plants than Ground Water? says:
    September 1, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    […] with more starting to flush pink and red on their smooth green cheeks. That happened overnight.My vegetable garden receives plenty of well water through the soaker hoses. So what gives? Yesterday the garden […]

  3. Potato Harvest Yields Good Results - Home and Garden Joy says:
    May 30, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    […] planted potato slips or pieces of potato in late March in a 10 x 10 raised bed filled with soil and compost. The potato pieces were either small potatoes saved from last […]

  4. Monday Musings - Garden Update - Home Garden Joy says:
    August 1, 2016 at 11:57 am

    […] tomato harvest this year has been wonderful. The giant beefsteak tomatoes we planted in the raised bed vegetable garden are better suited to Virginia’s climate than the ones I grew for the past several years, […]

  5. The Weekend Garden Update - Home Garden Joy says:
    June 18, 2018 at 10:27 am

    […] the vegetable garden looks great except for the aforementioned sweet potato vines. I’m thrilled with the progress […]

Primary Sidebar

Learn Gardening!

writer Jeanne Grunert

Hi, I'm Jeanne Grunert, master gardener, herbalist, and writer. If you're new to gardening, welcome! I make it simple and easy for you to grow a kitchen garden: delicious, organic vegetables, fruit, herbs, and yes, flowers, too.

My Books on Amazon

cover of plan and build a raised bed garden

Visit my author page on Amazon to find all of my fiction and gardening books.

Grow Vegetables

17 year cicada

Do the 17 Year Cicadas Hurt Gardens?

strawberries are great for vertical gardening

Vertical Gardening to Expand Your Space

rosemary growing in containers for space saving gardens

5 EASY Space Saving Vegetable Garden Ideas

red and green lettuce in the garden

The Winter Garden – Enjoying the Seasons

Easy Healthy Recipes

beet and cabbage soup

Easy, Simple Beet and Cabbage Soup Recipe

walnut applesauce bread with apples in the background

Walnut Applesauce Bread

butternut squash risotto on a plate

Butternut Squash Risotto with Sage and Caramelized Onions

How to Make No Salt Homemade Tomato Sauce: Easy Recipe!

Featured

logo of the american horticulture society

Home Garden Joy was featured by the American Horticultural Society on #plantchat.

Let’s Connect!

  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Medium
  • Pinterest
  • RSS

Footer

rosemary growing in containers for space saving gardens

5 EASY Space Saving Vegetable Garden Ideas

These 5 space-saving vegetable garden ideas offer  urban gardeners, apartment gardeners, and anyone with limited space the ability to grow lots of plants in small spaces. I’ve put together the following 5 ideas to help you grow your dream kitchen garden – vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers – even on a tiny city balcony.

red and green lettuce in the garden

The Winter Garden – Enjoying the Seasons

Happy Holidays! Here at Home Garden Joy, I’m celebrating the “winter garden” – what’s left of the fall vegetables, any herbs that haven’t been nipped by the frost, and the bounty of  canned goods I’ve set aside for just such a season. Here’s what Hubby and I have been up to at Seven Oaks Farm.

green and red lettuce

How to Grow Lettuce Like a Pro

Learn how to grow lettuce like professional growers. If you’re tired of store bought lettuce, growing it in your backyard is easy. Lettuce is surprisingly quick to grow, too, so there’s also the almost-instant gratification of harvesting soon after planting seeds. How to Grow Lettuce Lettuce plants should be grown from seeds sown directly into…

Read More

winter vegetables picture of parsnip

Harvesting Winter Vegetables this Week: Abundance!

I finally got some time this week to harvest the winter vegetables. The hard frosts we’ve experienced over the past several weeks killed some of the vegetation above ground, but the root vegetables were fine, and they tasted delicious.

Copyright © 2021 Home Garden Joy on the Foodie Pro Theme