Their unique front-yard landscape features deck and pebble walkways linking deep raised beds made from stacked bits of broken concrete where they grow vegetables, cutting flowers and fruits.

The best raised beds can take your garden to the next level (literally!). Explore tips from a pro gardener, plus 8 beds to try in your home.

Raised-bed gardening is a popular technique for growing plants in Missouri. Vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and shrubs may be grown in raised beds, which can be attractive as well as useful.

Mostly, in the vegetable garden, I make 30- to 36-inch-wide raised beds without wooden sides. I just hoe up soil from the walkways into a bed that stands up 6 inches above the walkway.

Mostly in the vegetable garden I make 30- to 36-inch wide raised beds without wood sides. I just hoe up soil from the walkways into a bed that stands up 6-inches above the walkway.

Build up soil and compost to create raised beds, or build wood-sided beds. You can hoe soil from the walkways into your raised beds, and maybe buy a pickup truck-load of compost to mix in and ...