Northeast Gardening: Advice on planning a border?, 1 by Meg_fw

Meg_fw wrote:
You guys are so helpful! This is great.

rcn48: the bed is currently 3' wide, 14' long. I suppose there's no reason I couldn't extend it...except that I don't really know how. But that is find-out-able. How wide does it need to be?
I don't think there's a drip line in front. There are indeed gutters, and there's a seriously visible drip line on the east side of the house, so I have something to compare it to.
Here's another picture--does this help? I could move the bed out somewhat, but there are those 2 trees, and I don't think I can move them!! I want to put a very simple stone path in there somewhere (or maybe a rock path? No shortage of materials there!).