Directions for Moving Raised Gardens

Overview

One of the many benefits of raised garden beds, besides the ways it makes gardening easier, includes the ease with which you can move the bed when needed. While it may take some time to disassemble the bed depending on how you have it assembled, most garden beds, especially those sit on top of the ground, can simply be picked up and moved to a new garden location.

Step 1

Remove any existing plants in the bed. Work in a circular motion with a shovel around the perimeter of the plants to lift the plants from the soil without harming their roots. Set the plants to the side or place them in a bucket of water until you are able to replant them.

Step 2

Disassemble the raised garden bed. Unstack pavers, bricks or rocks. Remove pieces of wood from the raised garden. If set on the ground, simply pick them up and remove any nails or other fasteners, such as pegs, by sliding them out or using a hammer to tap them out or pull them out with the hammer's claw. If wood pieces are set in the ground in a trench, use a shovel to dig around the trench until the wood easily lifts out of the ground.

Step 3

Reassemble the raised garden materials at the new garden site.

Step 4

Shovel the soil from the old garden into a wheelbarrow. Transport the wheelbarrow to the new garden site and dump the soil into the new bed. Rake the soil until smooth and even.

Step 5

Replant the plants from the old bed. Plant in a similar pattern as planted in the hold bed or rearrange, but keep spacing requirements in mind.