The Garden Is Finally Done! 🪴 Container Setup + Mulch Walkway Reveal | We Outside 2025

Welcome to the garden reveal in Episode 4 of This DIY Life: We Outside 2025! 🌞🌱
After prepping, shopping, planting, and building — the garden space is finally ready!

In this video, I show the final expanded layout, including the newly installed 5-gallon bucket racks, a simple mulch and paver walkway, and all the beautiful plants that now fill the space. I used a budget-friendly approach to maximize function and visual appeal in a small backyard garden setup.

Whether you’re gardening in containers, dreaming of a veggie patch, or just love seeing outdoor spaces come together — I hope this inspires you to get outside and create something beautiful.

🪴 In this episode:
✔️ Completed DIY garden bucket rack setup
✔️ Added new plants + garden layout update
✔️ Created a mulch & paver path between planters
✔️ Backyard container garden reveal!

💬 Let me know in the comments — what’s growing in your garden this year? Would you use this setup in your own yard?

👉 Catch up on previous episodes:
• [Ep. 1: Perimeter Plans & Ideas]
• [Ep. 2: DIY Bucket Racks]
• [Ep. 3: Shopping + Garden Reset Vlog]

Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe so you don’t miss the next projects in this series — the patio and front porch are next!

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I love making something out of nothing. I’m not trained, but I am brave and determined. Of course, I could hire a professional, but DIY first. Hey guys, it’s I think it’s April 20. What’s the date? 26. April 26th. So, we’re going to do a little check in with the garden. It’s been raining quite a bit, but looks like some squirrels been in my garden. Looks like some squirrels have planted some trees in my flower bed. I think these are oak. Cannot stay. No trees in my onion patch. So, I’m happy that the onions are still alive. I tried to space them out more. So, they are doing okay. This is lemongrass. It’s doing okay. That’s probably not the best to be sitting in water like that. So, let’s clear that out. Drain this. I can’t tell if something is trying to grow or not. Maybe maybe that some see some little tiny little green specks. This is something. That out of there. So, and this is dandelion, which looks like it’s trying to come up. My strawberries not blooming. And this is lettuce and arug arugula. Roma and arugula. I don’t know if it’s doing anything. But anyway, these are pepp. Oh, look at my little peppers. Look. Look like some little blooms trying to come up. I guess they bloom. Maybe flowers first and then produce. And this is my tomato. It’s got some little flowers. And this one that’s falling over actually has some little baby tomatoes on it. So, the plan is for these buckets to go into those racks. I do need to do some weed barrier along the bottom and trellis. I need trellis in the back. So, I need to do that pretty soon. But, I’m going I have some cages. I’m going to put the cages around the tomatoes so they don’t fall over to the ground. And that’ll be that’ll be a temporary situation until I can get the trellis up. I have the ones I do. I still have them or did I throw them away? Oh, yeah. I have the get some light. No light. Oh, I think the breaker is off. Anyway, I have these from last year. I can’t tell what you can see. I can’t see. Maybe you can see, but I’m just going to put these. Well, this one is pretty rough looking. See if I can straighten this out at all. I think this is from the weight last year. The plant was so heavy that it basically bent the this thing all out of whack. And like I said, this is this is just temporary until I get the trellis in place and and I can move these over to the rack. But just trying to gently stand it back up. Yep. Through the hole. All right, that one is up. This one. Okay, so now that’s much better. So, I’ll try to get these in the rack as quickly as possible so they can have more support, but I think this will be good just to keep them going in the right direction for now. But anyway, like I said, I don’t know how what the seeds are going to do. They may have been washed out by all the rain, but everything else looks pretty good except this lettuce. I don’t know what it’s doing. Looks like something’s been digging around in there. Birds may have eaten all of it. Hey bird, did you come to pillage my garden? All right, I’ll do another check-in later and keep y’all updated on how it’s going. This is another day in the garden situation. So, I have this idea to kind of elevate this space a little bit more. I have my two, what do you call them? Bucket racks, I guess we’re going to call them. They’re going to have trelluses there. I still haven’t gotten the trelluses, but that’s okay. I’ll get those hopefully tomorrow. But I have them here in the position. But I had an idea to try to kind of elevate this space, but also to make it easier for lawn care with the spacing like it is that the the llama won’t fit in between. So I kind of want to section that area off and put this weed barrier down so that it just nothing will grow there. And I have a lot of mulch that I can put down there as well as some stepping stones. This sun is killing me. Anyway, I have some stepping stones just to try to finish out this area and make it look more intentional. I also have some of the no dig uh landscape barrier to put down around the perimeter, but also I had the idea I want to try to grow some watermelon in a couple of the buckets. So, in between the two the two bucket racks, I want to have kind of like a watermelon patch, but it will be on mulch. I have black mulch, which is what I generally use around the house anyway. But I want to get a few bags of organic mulch in a different color, maybe in brown or just whatever color it comes in, organic mulch, to put in between the two trelluses, and that will be the watermelon hatch. I’ll let the vines grow out of the bucket and down onto the ground in that area and try to keep the vines in that area. And then I have a few paper stones to kind of set like a little stepping stone path in between those and the bench area. So that’s the plan today. So I’m going to go ahead and get this weed barrier down and get everything kind of mapped out and then we’ll go from there. It’s about 4:00 in the evening, so I think that’s enough time to do what I’m thinking of doing. And I don’t think it’s going to rain again. It’s I’ve been kind of delayed by the weather. So, we will see. We’ll just see how far we get. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Music] Guys, the wind is picking up and it’s cooling off. I don’t know whether it’s like trying to turn on me. We’ll see how how far I can get. I don’t know. I might play victim again to the weather. [Music] Everybody always [Music] [Music] goodbye. Heat. Heat. [Music] To be continued. So, picking up where I left off yesterday. I got a little rained out yesterday, but I’m going to just pick up right where I left off and go ahead and continue with the border around the perimeter of the garden area. Then, I’m going to kind of map out the inner area where that will be my watermelon patch. if things go well. So, I’m just going to continue where I left off. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Down. [Music] Down. [Music] down. [Music] Hey Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Down. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] Okay. [Music] Okay. [Music] All right. So, what’s left? I have those okra plants over there. I think there are five of those. And I’m pretty sure I can put multiple in one container. So, I think I’m going to do two sets. Two buckets of okra here. One. Two. I’m going to get watermelon here. And maybe I’m either going to get two watermelon or a watermelon and a cantaloupe to go in these bottom corners here. And then this area here that’s empty, I’m going to get organic mulch. So when the watermelon I’m going to make it come over this way and onto this little area here. So that’s the plan. and we’ll see how we’ll see if that works or not. This is just a test. And so on this side, I have my other tomato plant. And I may get a second one of these because I think these are the same ones I had last year and they were really good. So I may get a second one of these to go here. And I need to put the trellis up. I mean, I have these rings, but I want an actual trellis to go up this in this empty area here. And so that will fill out this container here. And these are peppers. Yeah, big bera bells. Sweet bell pepper or sweet peppers. I don’t know. Anyway, those are doing pretty good, I think. I guess that’s what they’re supposed to look like. But anyway, that’ll fill out this these two racks here. So, one more plant here. Onion is doing pretty good. These are dandelions. They’re doing something. I see a couple of things coming up here, but I don’t even remember what this stuff is. It didn’t go too good. So, I probably waited too late anyway. And then this is arugula and romaine lettuce. And maybe it’s trying to do something. I see like one little thing here and a couple things there. I don’t know what I’m looking at. I’ll let it marinate for a little while longer. Also, what I’m thinking about doing, I need to connect the garden to this walkway here. Right. So, this walkway goes by the garage. which I need to connect there some kind of way around to here. But Corey needs to be able to go over it with the lawn mower. So that means it probably needs to be kind of inset down into the ground, which I’ve never done before, or at least down low enough so he can just drive over it. And these pavers are not very thick, but I don’t want him to hit them with the blade and mess up the lawn mower. So, I’m going to do some thinking on that and try to figure out how to connect these two paths here. That’ll probably be a future project. It just says strawberry. Okay, this is recycled dirt. So, I hope that I mean it has some like old roots in it. Hopefully, that won’t be a problem. I don’t know. And I think I’m supposed to maybe loosen the roots up at the bottom. [Music] So, I was going to do like a traditional like the wood trellis type situation, but then I saw this, which I have I don’t really actually know what this is. It looks like string, but it says it’s a veggie trellis. And so I think I can like string it along here and make it so that the tomatoes can go up. Oh, it’s a net, which is I think what I want. How do I attach it, though? And I also got these plant support locks that I think I can use to actually attach the plant to the trellis. So, I just need to figure out how best to attach this. Maybe I’ll cut it in half and that’ll make it easier to manage. And then I’ll figure out how to attach it. [Music] Uh-huh. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Uh-huh. [Music] [Music] [Music] All right, I am I think I’m officially giving up on the lettuce. Maybe it’s doing something, but whatever it’s doing is not much. So, I have this container here that I started some dandelion seeds in. And it looks like they’re starting to do something. So, I’m going to transfer the dandelions from here to here. If the lettuce decides to do something, it’s fine. They can kind of live together. But, I don’t want this container to go to waste. And the other seeds, I think I’m just going to give up on them. And I’ll try again next year on that. So, I’m just going to take that in the house and clean it out. How it feel, boo? It’s a vibe. Yeah. Okay. Continue visualizing. Yeah. All right, y’all. So, this is the last day of the garden build situation. So, I do have one more thing left to plant, and that is watermelon. So, this is kind of an experiment to see if I can grow watermelon from a 5gallon bucket. Because normally you would put it on the ground. It’s a vine. It likes to run. It likes space. Um, and so that’s why I kind of created the little area that I did. But at the time, I was planning to plant maybe one or two plants, but I accidentally picked up a fourack. And um, yeah. So, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re going to see. I’m going to put all four of them. I got two buckets here. I’mma put two in each bucket. And then we just going to see what happens. I will try to make sure I kind of uh train them to go down in the middle into the little area that I have prepared for it. But I suspect that it’s probably going to go outside of the bounds at some point, which is okay. As long as I get some juicy watermelon, I’m fine with it. So, let me get these in this bucket and I’ll keep you guys posted throughout the summer and kind of update you on how the garden is doing. [Music] beautiful. [Music] Ooh. [Music] All right. I think this is this is it for now, boo. We’ll see see how see what happens. I don’t know. [Music] [Music]