Repurposed Stone Garden Beds

You won’t have to poke around our website or social media pages for long before you’ll see that red cedar is our building material of choice. 

We use it to build raised garden beds.

Chicken Coops.

Greenhouse Frames.

Potting benches and tiered shelving.

Arbors and trellises.

Compost bins.

Outdoor furniture.

We build these projects with red cedar because it needs no chemical treatment to hold up for many years, exposed to the elements and hungry insects. In fact, for eons, human beings have been using lumber from this special tree for these same building applications. And for the same reasons.

Aromatic red cedar is soft and easy on our tools.

I’s lightweight and easy to carry.

And the iconic red color and unmistakable ‘perfume’ never fail to deliver the ‘wow’ factor on every red cedar garden project we build.

 

But...every so often, a customer asks if can repurpose natural stone from an old patio or pathway to build raised garden beds. 

And even though building with stone or other repurposed or recycled materials isn’t our specialty, we still delight in these occasional chances to ‘mix it up’ and work with natural stone.

 

Natural stone is a lot heavier and more tedious to build with than red cedar.

But natural stone is the undisputed champion of durability.

 

And natural stone can hold its own in a beauty contest with red cedar, too.

 

When natural stone pieces are patiently cut and fitted together, the result is usually a raised garden bed that’s every bit as delightful as the same project made with red cedar. 

 

And what makes these ‘recycled stone’ projects especially fun for our team is that the stone material is already on site - usually not far from where the new raised beds will be built. We don’t need to have the building material delivered to the work site, or bring it over ourselves.

Sometimes we cement the natural stone pieces together with type-s mortar, and sometimes the project is simply a ‘dry stack’.

 

But whatever the case, the objectives of repurposed stone raised beds are the same as with any of our red cedar garden bed installations ; 

6+ hours of sunlight.

Convenient to the kitchen and a water supply.

Filled with a premium organic soil blend.

Set up for success.