You can make plastic fences for garden beds, as well as iron, bricks, concrete, vines, slate. Openwork borders are obtained from flexible rods. Summer residents want their lands to look beautiful. The garden will have an attractive appearance if you put nice fences for the beds here. Of course, you can buy them, but this pleasure is not cheap. Therefore, it is better to make curbs from inexpensive or waste materials.
Plastic fencing for garden beds
You won't have to spend too much money on these. At the moment, you can buy a plastic lining in Leroy Merlin measuring 10x300 cm at a price of 17 rubles. a piece. Use a plastic or aluminum bracket to secure these fixtures. But the latter is more expensive.
Here's what it takes to make inexpensive DIY garden fences:
- plastic lining;
- plastic corner;
- liquid nails, Titanium or Moment transparent glue;
- hand saw;
- scissors.
You can buy colored plastic lining, so that its color is in harmony with small architectural forms, buildings that are in the country.
Using a saw, cut the lining to the length of the beds, as well as the width. Four prepared boards must be folded in the form of a rectangle, glued together at the ends with corners. If you want high beds, then you can install the lining not in one row, but in 2 or even 3. For greater reliability of the structure, it is better to fix plastic corners not only from the outside, but also from the inside.
Here are the advantages of such hand-made fences:
- profitability;
- looks beautiful;
- durability, since this material does not rot;
- no need to paint;
- you can make beds of any shape.
Based on the idea of the last point, you can make, for example, triangular or 5-6-corner fences. For this, boards of the required size are sawn off, fixed with glue and corners.
If you want fences for beds and flower beds not to cost a single ruble, then use the same material for this, but in the form of bottles. Quite a lot of them will be required. Here's what you need for such a border:
- plastic bottles;
- colored tape or rope;
- pegs;
- hatchet.
Sharpen the pegs, drive them in with the back of the ax, after placing a piece of the board on top of the stick. Place the bottles upside down, fastening them together with a string. You can use colored tape, fix this container at the bottom and top.
The advantages of such a border are that it:
- free;
- durable;
- easy to assemble;
- you can make a bed of any shape.
If you wish, match a pair by color, or paint the finished fence.
If you have old vinyl records, make a border for flower beds and beds out of them, half-buried in the ground. Even unnecessary car tires will be used. Pre-color them, glue them together.
DIY border for wooden beds
This is also a very affordable and inexpensive material, it is not difficult to mount it. Watch the master class, which describes in detail how to make a fence for wooden beds, step by step photos are given.
Mow the grass in the selected area. Mark the future bed with pegs and ropes or sand.
To make such borders for the beds, take:
- wooden bars;
- boards;
- carton boxes;
- metal mesh with fine meshes;
- furniture stapler.
Drive pegs with grooves into the ground from four corners, which you can buy or make yourself. Planks are inserted here. The higher the bed is, the more they are needed. In this case, two are used on each side.
There are 4 recesses in such bars. Therefore, the structure is easy to lengthen or expand, to put additional boards on the side or behind.
Similar boxes without a bottom. If rodents are bothering the crop, lay down a metal mesh with fine meshes. It is advisable to slightly raise its edges up to the sides, fix it here.
If you then pour fertile soil into the box-bed, you do not want it to mix with the existing one, then lay a dense cardboard box disassembled on the bottom. Such a device will also help protect plants from weeds, and excess water will flow out through the pores of the paper. To prevent the cardboard bottom from moving, secure it with a stapler.
Sprinkle inside with light soil mixed with compost or humus. You can immediately add some mineral fertilizers. It is necessary to shed the soil so that it sits down, only then plant greens, carrots or other vegetables.
Take a look at the irrigation systems that are offered for such tall beds. As you can see, along the contour of the curbs, you need to fix the hose and irrigation nozzles, at angles of 180, 90 °.
If you plan to plant cucumbers, beans, and other climbing plants here, then you need to install a trellis. Since the ground in such high beds is loose, the space is limited by metal mesh, cardboard, so PVC pipes must be fixed beyond the border of the curbs.
For you 3 useful tips on this topic:
- Use deciduous rather than coniferous trees to keep your vegetables organic. The latter can release resin, which can adversely affect the soil composition.
- Before treating fresh wood with paint or a protective agent for such material, make sure that the solution does not contain harmful substances.
- Since the soil here dries up quickly, the density of planting on such high beds is twice that on ordinary ones. So the plants shade the soil, do not allow moisture to evaporate much. In such a close neighborhood, they are better at fighting weeds, and this is only on hand for gardeners - the harvest will be 2 times greater.
Explore how different plants like or dislike the neighborhood of others. This table shows in green which crops grow well with each other, in red those that are not recommended to be planted next to each other.
You can arrange wooden borders for the garden in a ring, make wide paths inside this structure so that it is convenient to walk here and take care of the plants. For curly ones - the supports are also made of wood. If you put a lantern in the center, you will achieve an interesting effect, moreover, it will light up this part of the cottage in the evenings, and you can pick vegetables that grow here, even in the dark.
In the center, you can place rectangular beds, and in the middle you can make one in the shape of a five-pointed star. For each corner, you need to saw off two identical boards at an angle, fasten them with self-tapping screws. If this is a tall bed, then place two such blanks one on top of the other.
You can also make beds from pallets of different shapes. The simplest construction of this type is made by putting such a pallet on an excavated area, sowing plants between two adjacent boards.
You can cut one pallet in half, making large sides of the box out of these parts, and making small ones from the second pallet. It will turn out to be such a wonderful bed.
If you have multiple pallets, then you can make a long fence.
Solid beds are built from lining from bars. If you fill the boards on top, then you can go here while caring for the plants.
Vine fences also look great. This environmentally friendly material will not harm plantings.
If you have rounded bars or old shovel cuttings, cut them into pieces of different or equal lengths, sharpen on one side, sand, cover with an antiseptic. Using a rubber mallet, hammer them into the dug-up earth, right around the perimeter of the garden bed or flower bed.
DIY vine fence
You could already read in detail about how the wattle is made. Now see what kind of garden fences you can make from this material.
To create similar curbs, take:
- willow branches;
- round bars;
- axe;
- wire.
Sharpen the ends of the bars, as in the previous case, drive them along the edge of the marked area. Fastening the end of the first rod with a wire to the bar, weave the branch through the remaining vertical pegs, passing it either in front or behind.
You can take not one, but several rods at once.
Make a fence for the beds of the desired configuration. You can give it a round, square or polygonal shape. It will be determined by pegs driven in along a given trajectory. Make your own flower bed fences to make them look like baskets. To do this, make a round wattle, attach a handle, also created from a vine, to it from above.
You can make a two-tier flower bed by creating a large one from willow branches at the bottom, place a small one in the center upward. Plant flowers or greenery here.
With the help of this material, they make not only fences for flower beds and for beds, but also for a tree. Drive in the pegs shallowly along the near-trunk circle, frame them with prepared branches of willow or other well-bending material.
If you make two circles at a short distance from each other, then you can pour soil between them, plant flowers here, or put moss, which will regulate the level of moisture around the tree.
If you liked decorating your site in this way, after practicing, you can make not only wicker fences for beds and flower beds, but also a real masterpiece on this topic.
Decorate the bed with flexible rods, separately weave just such a cover for the magic chest. It is attached to the uprights and is fixed to the lower basket with door hinges.
If spring and autumn frosts are transmitted, you close the lid of the chest, thereby protecting the plants from the cold.
With the help of flexible rods, you can make long beds, make a pavement path between them, it will be neat and beautiful in the garden.
Fences for beds made of bricks, stone, concrete
A circular high bed is built of bricks.
A path is made from edge to center so that you can walk along it and process the landings. Such a beautiful tall bed will be created if you take:
- bricks or stones;
- cardboard;
- branches and roots;
- compost;
- metal mesh;
- 3 iron bars.
Mark a circle of the required diameter, place 3 fittings in the center, pull a metal mesh around them. Between its outer edges and the brick, you need to lay branches, roots, grass. Pour light soil on top. You will periodically put organic waste and water inside the metal mesh pipe. Such nutrition will reach the plants, replace mineral fertilizing with them.
Pumpkin crops grow especially well in such a tall, warm bed. It is best to plant zucchini, cucumbers, melons, watermelons or pumpkins here. But the flowers here are just expanse, as the soil becomes highly fertile, well moistened.
If you have a vegetable garden on a slope, brick beds can help fix this. Lay more of this material at the bottom and less at the top. If the slope is to the south, then leave the beds in the same position, and they will be better warmed up by the sun.
A beautiful fence for beds and flower beds will turn out from waste material if you take:
- empty glass bottles;
- cement mortar;
- bricks (old ones can be).
In the marked area, lay out empty glass bottles in a checkerboard pattern, with the bottom outward. Fix this container with cement mortar. Put bricks on top, also fix them. When the solution is dry, it's time to pour soil inside the flower bed and plant vegetables or flowers.
You can buy monolithic blocks for fences and sidewalks, or cast them yourself from concrete using a mold.
If the bricks are placed vertically in a pre-dug recess, then another fence for the beds will turn out. To fix them, lay a row of bricks right there horizontally.
Flat stones will also work, it is enough to spread them in a circle near a tree or garden bed, thus arranging a flower garden, arranging them 2-3 rows.
For the next border, you only need:
- volumetric stones of different sizes;
- wooden pegs;
- flexible tape made of fiberboard or hardboard;
- cement;
- water;
- sand.
First place large stones on the bottom row, fastening them with cement mortar. Then there are several rows of similar stones until you achieve the desired curb height.
You can do it differently. Dig a shallow trench of the desired width around the perimeter of the flower garden or garden bed. Just stack the stones here and the low curb is ready.
If you don't have that many stones, then make a low concrete fence. It will turn out to be so spectacular.
For this kind of design work, you will need:
- rubber hose;
- sand;
- cement;
- water;
- shovel.
On the area marked with a hose, remove the sod, dig a trench 20 cm wide and 10 cm deep. Drive wooden pegs from one and the other outer edges. Between them, lay and fasten with screws a flexible tape made of fiberboard or hardboard.
Place wooden pegs horizontally between the two straps as spacers, about a meter apart. Pour the prepared concrete solution into the trench, level it with a spatula. It remains to cover the curb with sealant when it is completely dry, the fence for the flower beds and beds is ready.
You can also make edging from sheets of slate, corrugated board.
Such an activity will not seem difficult to you if, after reading the above, you still watch the video material on this topic.
What kind of fences for the beds can be, their advantages and disadvantages are described in the first plot.
How to make fences for beds with your own hands from slate sheets, you will see from the second mini-movie.
