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How to Build a Terraced Garden Bed on a Slope



Terracing a slope can help with drainage problems, but it can also add functional gardening space. We’ll show you how to install a series of garden beds out of 6×6 pressure-treated lumber.

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Paver base – https://low.es/33DyXAD
1/2″ x 24″ rebar – https://low.es/30cCPGD
4″ drainage pipe – https://low.es/33GFU40
Landscape fabric – https://low.es/2HbkNx0
Garden soil – https://low.es/2KQ9Emh
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30 Comments

  2. Iman-Ali Beg

    I've just moved into my home and I have a slopy garden! the council has only tended to 1/4 of the garden which is at the top and it would be the size of a typical city garden! the rest they gated off and it is a brook! which is literally overgrown with ferns and bushes. I saw a fox there as well. I really want to do the garden up and I wanted some advice? what can I put in place to keep foxes out? and how can I design a very long garden? especially the one which seems as if the house is sitting at the peak of K2 whilst you are at the bottom of the garden?

  9. Original Otrex

    Never drive rebar into dirt. That's a mistake because it allows rust to wick up the rebar, splitting the wood/concrete/whatever material you've used after a few seasons.

  11. oochie wally

    who knows if i ever will do this in my life but watching these vids always opens my mind on many levels

  12. Lisa InOakville

    For the drainage pipes, I am confused as to why they are L shaped, ie run across the front of the bed and not just down the one side. Also for the drainage pipe running up the side (the one that has the notch at the bottom) do you connect it to the next bed above or have it long enought to run through all three beds, adding a T to it at the front of each bed? Also do you need to close the end (brick wall side in this case) to make sure it doesnt fill with dirt, or is just ensuring the landscape fabric is around it enough?

  18. P Smith

    yea.., "just grab yourself some lumber…" try "mortgage your house to buy some lumber in 2021".

  26. Tim Campbell

    Putting it next to the house is a bad idea. The garden will need a lot of water and all that moisture will create foundation and crawlspace issues that will become an expensive nightmare. It's best for your house to keep water away from the foundation. I noticed your downspout drains right beside the house also. I would put at least an extension to drain the water away from the house but you're still going to have a problem with the water from the garden. I'd remove it and place it somewhere away from the house before you have serious foundation issues. I know that's not what you want to hear, but you should contact a foundation company and let them explain.

  30. Weston Sperbeck UEL

    Will trenching so close to the building cause foundation issues in the future? I have a similar setup with a slightly higher grade slope

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