How to Create a Three-Season Garden Bed

• Pick a spot that gets lots of sun to help promote plant growth.
• Use a garden hose or rope to lay out the size and design of your garden bed. You can also choose to outline your design with powdered chalk or marking paint.
• With a sharp shovel or pickaxe, remove the top layer of turf in small, manageable sections. Relocate the cut turf to another part of your yard or flip it upside down for added compost material.
• Break up the soil beneath and remove any large rocks.

Tip: For more details on the techniques used to build a garden bed using wall blocks, see our Garden Club project.

• Using a flat blade shovel or hoe, level and smooth the area where the garden wall blocks will go.
• Apply a 1-inch layer of leveling sand or paver base, and lay the first run of wall blocks.
• Stack the blocks to the desired height.

Add premixed garden soil. Plants and flowers will naturally push up the soil up as they grow, so add more soil to give additional height to your garden bed.

We recommend these colorful options:

• Tall yellow flowers: Daylilies
• Tall orange flowers: Asiatic lilies
• Purple flowers on left: Salvia
• Red flowers: Roses
• White flowers: Daisies
• Pink flowers: Hydrangeas
• Purple flowers on right: Phlox