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Garden Design

The Basics

What's a Backyard Eats Garden?

A Backyard Eats Garden is a custom-built raised bed system designed to make growing your own food simple and rewarding. Each garden combines durable handcrafted beds, organic growing medium, integrated fencing, stone walkways, and automated drip irrigation to create a beautiful, low-maintenance space that produces abundant, healthy harvests right in your backyard.

Raised Beds

Used for control of growing conditions and ergonomics. Installed level into the landscape as the basis for the rest of the garden’s infrastructure. Complete with aluminum corner hardware, stainless steel screws, & non-toxic wood treatment

Bok choy in a raised bed

Growing Medium

A custom growing medium, balancing nutrients and drainage, ideal for annual edibles

Fencing and Gates

Integrated fencing keeps your garden free from groundhogs, deer, & rabbits. Combined with a cedar-framed gate with sleek, black metal accent hardware.

New raised bed garden with perimeter growing space, central beds, and a moon gate trellis

Walkways

To suppress grass and weeds, we install weed fabric and tamped crushed stone. A layer of decorative grey pea gravel reduces maintenance and provides a comfortable substrate in the garden.

Drip irrigation lines running along top of raised bed soil

Irrigation

For even, consistent, and reliable watering, we run drip lines underground from your hose spigot to inside raised beds or other planting beds. An intuitive, automatic timer conveniently waters your garden.