Having a hard time understanding bleed marks

Your design has no bleed.

Here’s what your New Document Dialog should look like…

This adds a bleed guide — the red frame — to your artboard:

This is how your green background should fill that bleed box:

Save as PDF, adjusting the Trim Marks offset to at least the size of the bleed…beyond the edges of the artboard:

Ink beyond the trim is bleed.

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