Raised Garden Bed Against House Siding
Materials to avoid using in raised beds.
Raised garden bed against house siding. Precise planning is involved to prevent a variety of problems that may come with foundation plantings. This raised garden bed allows you to do just that. 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. My entire garden is raised beds made with hardie board siding and not a single one has failed in over 10 years.
And the paint still looks great too. If you decide you want it somewhere else from year to year you just have to move it. Diy raised garden beds. It s not simply planting shrubs against your house.
In some climates it can also cause mildew and may even lead to an increased rate of decay on wood siding. Personally i like the separation. 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.
It will keep the back of the bed from rotting due to moisture trapped between the house and the raised bed. Even more so it is also portable. Build this raised garden bed 11. So if you don t like the idea of something permanent then you don t have to worry about that in this case.