how do I create a new flower bed?

Answer 1

Seems like everyone forgot to mention that there is a little manual labor involved in raising a new bed. Pick your spot and notice if it is shady or sunny depending on what kind of flowers you want. Check the soil first and foremost. It is very likely that you will have to amend it either by adding sand or humus. Sand for soil that needs drainage and sand and humus for soil that is sticky like clay. You have to work it in the soil with your garden tools eg...tiller, shovel, spade or a hoe. Whatever you have the soil needs to be turned and mixed to make it soft and workable. Getting most of the grass and weeds out of the soil. Now you are ready to plant and fertilize.
Make sure and cover the soil around your plants with mulch to eliminate grass and weeds from coming back. You can also use garden mesh for a grass and weed free garden. You could also make a flower bed by just dumping soil overtop of the area you want planted and follow the rest of the plan just consider using rocks or somekind of enclosure to the bed to prevent your dirt from washing away.

Answer 2

First you will need to dig out any grass and weeds. Then you will need to amend the soil. Add about 3 inches of compost. If you have clay soil you can add some coarse builder's sand. Turn the amendments into the existing dirt.

Decide which plants you want and that will do well in the location (sunny, shade). Use plants with a varying heights placing the taller ones behind the shorter ones. If making an island bed the taller ones should be in the middle. If you use perennials they will come back again next year.

Top with wood mulch. This will help prevent weeds, insulate the soil, and will compost in time then adding organic material to the bed. Water well after planting and continue watering daily for the first week while they establish.

Here are some links to help get you started:
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/flower/perennials.html
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/gardening/index.jhtml;jsessionid=COXHLXGJ30BRFQFIBQNR5VQ

Happy Spring!

Answer 3

What a wonderful opportunity for you! The key to great looking gardens and flower beds is bed prep, and killing the unwanted grass and weeds is the perfect place to start. You could use a nonselective herbicide like Round-Up, which will kill anything and everything. Round-Up and other chemicals like it will only kill what it contacts. They will not kill weeds that come up from seed.

Another option is to kill the weeds with a chemical, put compost, manure or other organic material on the bed, and mix and turn the soil and the organic material together. I would than add a thick layer of mulch on top for the winter. This will allow the soil to get two doses of organic material

Answer 4

Remove the old grass and weeds that currently reside there. Amend the soil with some leaf mulch - this will add organic matter to the soil. Purchase healthy perennials that will come back year after year. Plant them in a please manner according to how tall they get - you don't want to shade out the shorter ones. Water daily until they start to grow and get established. Afterward, just water when there is a dry spell. if you use native perennials, you'll have less maintenance and less watering. Add annuals for additional color in the Spring.

Answer 5

get yourself some 4x4 pressure treated lumber, then stack on the ground where you want the bed to be so it looks like a log cabin so you basically have a open box in any shape you want, you could also use bricks, stones, or cement blocks but lumber is easiest in my opinion

make sure your corners are square otherwise it won't look right, then fill it with a good potting soil,
if you get a cheep compost you will end up with weeds in your mix, (your gonna have to deal with weeds in the coming years either way) and your plants wont be as healthy

Answer 6

by spreading flowers on bed!

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Good.