DIY Brick Raised Garden Beds
This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. A few years back, we decided to create our own DIY brick raised garden beds. We wanted to give gardening a try, but needed an inexpensive way that would look nice in our backyard. We really love our raised garden beds because they added to the look of our backyard, were easy to build and maintain, and best of all they provide a nice place to sit while you work, weed, and harvest from your garden beds. They are easy to put together and can easily be accomplished in an afternoon.
DIY Brick Raised Garden Beds
- 12″ Retaining Wall Bricks
- Garden Soil
- Gardening Tools
- Plant seeds or starts
Prepare the area of your yard where you will be building your brick raised garden beds. Clear and level the ground and measure the area you will be making a garden bed to estimate how many retaining wall bricks you will need. Keep in mind, you can only naturally reach and tend to about 2′ depth. We made our garden beds against our brick fence and made them 4′ deep by 6′ wide. This would allow us to reach into the garden beds from either side, and from the front, to be able to tend to the plants.
Keep in mind that your interior bed size will be a smaller measurement than where the bricks will lie. Purchase a few extra bricks than you think you might need, so you don’t have to run back to Home Depot to make any returns while you’re in the middle of the project.
Next, lay out a first layer of retaining wall bricks to form the first layer of your raised garden bed. When you have a shape you like, add a second row of retaining wall bricks right on top of the first layer.
Now, it’s time to fill in your garden beds. You can use simple fill dirt for the lowest layer or get a quality mix of soil. Either way, it’s a good idea to spruce up your garden beds with a new bag of potting soil with fresh nutrients each new planting season.
When your beds are filled with soil, the fun comes by planting your seeds or plant starts. This year, we started two tomato plant varieties, cilantro, jalapenos, and green bell peppers in our garden beds.
If you don’t have space in your backyard for such large garden beds, try a cute and easy patio planter box. Home Depot has a whole easy, step-by-step tutorial to show you how to make your own Paver Planter – something you can personalize to make your own!
The Home Depot makes it easy to have the confidence and skills to try it yourself. They offer fun and engaging Do It Herself Workshops that show us how we can do it with in-store workshops so you see first hand how to make simple decor and easy home improvement projects on your own to update your space.聽Visit The Home Depot every 3rd Thursday for a new DIH Workshop. It’d be perfect as a fun, and free, girls night out!
Compensation was provided by The Home Depot via Mode Media.聽 The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of The Home Depot.
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I’ve been wanting to do something new in my garden. Thank you for a great idea 馃檪
What a great idea and it looks so nice. Love that you shared it with Share It One More Time. Cath
awesome idea! i’ll have to try this, or have someone do it for me lol
I love the brick garden beds! They look so nice and neat!
This looks fantastic. I will have to try this for my house. I am doing my first garden this year.
That is so pretty and seems so easy. We need some major work in our backyard and may have to do something like this. Thanks for sharing.
How cool! I am NOT good at gardening but this seems like it would be great for starting out!
I really like this idea. I never really though about putting brick around it. I love how it looks too. Very beautiful! I might have to try this with my garden this year.
I have wanted to start a garden for some time and your post has inspired me! Thank you for sharing.
I love this idea! It is perfect for a small backyard.
Love this idea! I remember my Mom gardened at every home we lived in while I was growing up. Sometimes she had very little room to work with. But, we always had a garden. This is a great idea if you are short on space or time for a larger garden.
We’ve been thinking about doing this in our backyard this year. What perfect timing for your post!
I love that the bricks add a clean look in your yard. This would be a great solution for me where I am limited on space and want a raised bed.
What a great project! I need to replace the bricks in my lawn with some of those and make a garden bed of my own!
That is a cute little herb garden. I need an area this size.
This is a really great idea and stylish. I bet almost anyone could do this. In fact I may do it on the side of my home that faces the driveway. 馃檪 Thanks for sparking my imagination.
Very pretty and looks simple enough non-handy me can do it!
This is great! I have heard about this at our Home Depot. My friend and I will be signing up.
We container garden and are very excited for Spring to finally be here. I think this garden space is absolutely adorable and would love to do something similar when we move into our first home.
That came out awesome. What a fun project idea this is.
This turned out very nice. We have a raised garden bed that we love. We plan on making another one at our next house too.
We’ve got a sunny little spot in our back yard that a raised bed like this would be perfect for. Thanks for this great tutorial!
Now that I’ve moved to the Sunshine State, I’ve definitely got an itch to do some gardening. I can’t wait to make one of these beds!
That’s a great bed! I’m a big fan of raised beds. They’re so much easier to work with, and I love that brick you used for the trim.
This is such a cute idea. I love making little gardens, and want to have one for just my toddler to tend- I think I”m going to build one for her!
Awesome job! I have been out in my yard and cleaning up. Cant wait to start my garden and plant flowers.
These are really nice looking. This would be fun to do.
These turned out awesome! I LOVE your haircut 馃檪