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Our Backyard Vegetable Garden | Part 2: Fence and Beds

in Home Decor & Landscaping, Outdoors

When it comes to backyard vegetable gardens one thing is clear, everyone wants a taste of the bounty! To lessen the chance of intruders coming into our space, we worked to add a fence around the space and to build wood raised beds to hold the actual plants.

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

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If you’re just jumping into our journey to build a backyard vegetable garden you might to check out part 1 explaining our goals and to see the “before” area we planned to build on.

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

Once we picked a spot, we brought some the tape measure, some flags to mark the spot and we planned out the four corners of our garden fence. We picked up a hole digger that included a ruler on the side and dug down 30 inches. Of course, we always had some supervisors as we did it. :)

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

After digging down 24 inches, Derek added a few about 6 inches of gravel to allow for some drainage at the bottom in hopes water won’t rot the bottom of the posts too fast. In went the 6 ft high posts that he got in place using a post leveler and a handy assistant (his dad).

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

The satisfaction of having all 12 posts in place lasted about a day. We admired from our kitchen window and upon observing the space, Derek decided we should do this thing right and dig up the grass that was going to be inside our vegetable garden. Even though we were planning on raised beds, this would allow us to have a fresh start to this garden surface to have level ground for the raised beds and the walkways between them.

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

For the garden fence, we used this 48 ft fence on the outside as the main fence and this poultry net on the inside with 12 inches of it at the bottom and 12 on the ground. We do have deer in the area and I know 6 ft of fence is typically suggested so with such a small footprint I hope they are deterred from jumping in. I guess we can always add an extension on top if need be!

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

No less than 1000 staples were used to hold this garden fence in place. That’s the box size he bought and used almost all of them!

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

At this angle you can see the poultry netting on the inside bottom which we hope will stop neighborhood bunny from getting in!

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

Top soil was delivered from a nearby garden center which we added along the edge of the fence, covering the poultry netting on the bottom.

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

The beds themselves are 5 ft x 3 ft in size made of pine boards. We added cardboard on the bottom layer to help keep in some moisture. I opted for this versus weed cloth as many said that did not drain at all. This cardboard will, of course, break down over time.

Our backyard vegetable garden - part 2: building the fence and the raised beds | spotofteadesigns.com

More top soil was added to the raised beds and finally some black mulch around the outside on the pathways.

UPDATE: See Part 3 where I shared how we built the entrance gate and cucumber trellis. Plus see it all in action on my instagram reel about our garden build!

Our backyard vegetable garden part 3 - building the gate and a cucumber trellis | spotofteadesigns.com
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