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Turn a Real Bed Frame Into a Flower Garden Bed

Published on July 20, 2015Last updated January 18, 2022 â™› By Melissa J. Will

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Old bed frames are perfect for the garden. See how this gardener created a true flower bed with a repurposed old metal headboard and footboard in her veggie garden.

If you want regular garden beds, this has instructions for building raised garden beds.

Bed frame in a flower garden.

Make a Garden Bed with Bed Frames

Old bed frames surrounding a flower garden.

This bed frame veggie garden is in the front yard of a beautiful lakeside town here in Ontario.

Old bed frame in a garden bed.

The headboard and footboard from an old metal bed are used to define the veggie and flower garden space.

Veggie bed made using old metal bed posts.

How to Support the Bed Frames

For a nice secure structure, the best option is to use the entire bed frame if you have it: headboard, footboard, and side rails. That way you can set up the bed and it will stay in place.

If you just have the headboard and/or footboard but no side rails, support posts may be needed.

Old metal headboard in garden bed.

One or two pieces of metal T-bar or rebar supporting either side of the frame can work. Drive the support posts into the ground and affix the frames to them.

Old metal headboard and footboard in veggie garden.

I really don’t think the pictures do it justice. This garden is very pretty.

Old metal bed repurposed in a vegetable garden with sideboard.

Here’s how it looks from behind the headboard.

Rear view of old metal bed used in a veggie garden.

The riot of colour (pinks, oranges, yellows, reds) really give it zing. And notice how the herbs are growing in the side table drawer.

Vegetable and flower garden framed with old metal bed posts.

The side table / dresser is stenciled with a French theme featuring the names of herbs.

Old metal bed frame in garden with wood side table.

Rosemary is spilling out of the drawer and there’s a pot of chives beside it.

Wooden bedside table in garden beside old metal bed frame.

It’s so nicely done and I love it even more because it is in the front garden.

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Having come out myself as a front yard veggie gardener, unsure of how neighbors would respond, I love this show of functional creativity.

Metal bed frame in flower garden with sign reading 'veggie bed'.

Now I’m totally on the hunt for an old bed.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt â™›

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