How To Build Raised Garden Beds On A Slope
Below is my current favorite system for building a raised garden bed with tapered sides.
How to build raised garden beds on a slope. 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. Raised beds for a sloping vegetable garden building a terraced vegetable garden is basically making raised beds on a slope and it s important to start at the bottom and work your way up. Measure your slope and draw it to scale on graph paper. The rocks along the front also create a little retaining wall for the herbs.
Divide the length of the slope from the lowest point to the highest by four. I built two raised garden beds and installed them on a gentle slope. This is now many raised beds you can build each stretching from one side of the slope to the other. I did 2 boards high to accommodate the cross slope.
To enhance the look of the bed we also gathered rocks from the wooded area of our yard. 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. While building a raised bed garden on a slope has it s challenges it s totally worth the effort when you can harvest your first cherry tomato and slice the first cucumber. The project is simplified by building the bed in place requiring no measuring of the slope grade and can be built working alone you don t need someone on the other end to hold boards or move the finished bed in place.