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Turn a Real Bed Frame Into a Flower Garden Bed

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

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Turn an old metal bed frame into a garden feature! This gardener repurposed a headboard and footboard to design a unique flower and vegetable bed.

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 flower and vegetable garden is in the front yard of a beautiful lakeside town here in Ontario.

White metal bedframe surrounding flower and vegetable garden
Bright orange nasturtiums dress up the real garden bed

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

White metal bedframe surrounding flower and vegetable garden
The bedframes surround the combination flower and vegetable garden

Collage of various bed frames used outside in garden

Related: Dreamy Garden Beds: Repurposed Bed Frames for Benches and Borders


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.
Headboard in garden

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.
The nasturtiums are taking over the garden bed!

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.
Garden bed with colorful flowers and vegetables

Here’s how it looks from behind the headboard.

Detail of white metal bedframe in garden
Real bedframe in garden with side table

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.
Colorful annuals line this garden bed

The side table / dresser is stenciled with a French theme featuring the names of herbs. I’m sure some of the decor was just there for the garden tour, but it was a fun addition.

Old metal bed frame in garden with wood side table.
The bedside table is overflowing with herbs

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.
Close up of bedside table with herbs

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'.

I love it when gardeners repurpose old items and push creative boundaries.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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