This suburban garden is 100% custom designed and hand made.
For ease of access and maintenance raised garden beds are an excellent choice. These boxes are designed to be ‘double reach’, or one arm’s length reach to the middle of the bed. The pathways have permanent weed barrier underneath the flagstone, which is the the width of a wheelbarrow for easy access. The beds themselves have a double layer of cardboard at the bottom which will eventually biodegrade allowing deep rooted plants to access the soil and worms can migrate up into the beds. The coldframe has both automatic and manual vents. It is easy to open and also easy to move and attach to any other box for seasonal rotation. The irrigation system is a combination of drip tape and micro sprayers that are connected to a pump on a timer.
The original garden had been over-run with pasture grass and was not fun to work in.
Some of the original garden design concepts:
Creating the new garden:
hello, i am interested in the raised bed with cold frame attachment for one of my clients. can you give me a sense of cost and time frame? thank you.
Hi Tania,
I’m sending you an email with further details.
Best,
Aaron
I am also very interested in learning more about your bed construction. Thanks for the information!
Hi Zach,
I’d be happy to give you more info, do you have specific questions?
Aaron – Very impressive design and setup, I’m very interested in duplicating it for my back garden. Could you email me the materials list, plans and build instructions? Would like to give it a go for my 2016 gardening season.
Hello, I don’t have exact plans for this that I can share. However I got the inspiration for this project from plans here: http://www.ana-white.com/2010/05/hack-natural-rustic-cedar-raised-beds.html
Hello,
Was wondering if you could provide me more precise details on your automatic venting
Hello, the frame has two small windows on each end that are operated with an automatic greenhouse window opener like this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Palram-Metal-Greenhouse-Vent-Opener/3826935.
This is enough venting to moderate the heat in the mornings or on cooler sunny days in the spring and fall, but the whole frame still needs to be manually lifted and propped open on hot days or at midday to avoid overheating.