About the service
I build raised garden beds from the ground up and finish the job by wiring each one into a drip irrigation loop, so you get a working, self-watering vegetable or flower plot rather than a pile of lumber and a hose left for you to figure out. Frames are cut from rot-resistant cedar or heavy composite board, joined at the corners with galvanized brackets and stainless screws rather than nails, and lined with landscape fabric before filling so soil never touches bare ground weeds. Beds are sized to your space during an on-site walkthrough — standard runs are 4x8, 3x6 and 4x4 feet at 11 or 22 inch wall height, but odd corners, sloped yards and raised-on-legs designs for accessible gardening are all part of the estimate. Fill soil is sourced as a blended mix of screened topsoil, aged compost and coarse perlite in ratios suited to vegetables, herbs or cut flowers, not a single generic bag mix, and I can bring in a soil test kit first if drainage or pH is a concern. Once frames are set and filled, I run half-inch poly mainline from your outdoor spigot through a backflow preventer and pressure regulator, then branch quarter-inch drip tubing with pressure-compensating emitters to each plant zone so tomatoes at the far end get the same flow as lettuce near the tap. Every system ships with an inline filter, a battery-powered programmable timer, and a winterization walkthrough so lines don't crack when temperatures drop. Typical turnaround for two to four beds with full irrigation is one to two weeks depending on soil delivery and weather, and I supply a simple maintenance sheet covering emitter cleaning, timer resets by season and how to add a bed later without redoing the mainline. Photos of recent builds, a materials list broken out by bed size, and a written quote are available before any deposit changes hands.
