Mar 23, 2009 · Raised beds?I too was in the same situation (about soil questions) and I can tell you what I did. We built our garden on a hillside and I made the beds out of wood 4 feet high, but built …

Dec 19, 2014 · In the meantime, if you want an instant fix for a small veg garden, you can build raised beds. If you build them framed in and a little taller than normal, you can just fill it with good enriched …

Apr 19, 2015 · We are building 4 raised vegetable gardens, each are 16'x4'x18". I think we'll use half mushroom compost (straw, peat moss, chicken manure, cottonseed meal, soybean meal, gypsum …

Feb 3, 2011 · That looks really nice. The raised beds will settle some. What does everyone else's garden look like right now?

Apr 29, 2011 · IMO, premium quality lumber is probably more expensive than you need for building raised garden beds. Top-quality lumber is usually used in situations where appearance is important, …

Feb 27, 2023 · We don't put a weed barrier down in the raised beds since weeding the small spaces is pretty easy, but in the regular garden the mulching program is layers of newsprint covered by a thick …

Jan 5, 2013 · I put a mix of ENC's and EF's in my raised beds, and have talked to others who have done the same. I plan on getting Africans and Alabama jumpers in later on also. The only prolem would be …

Jun 27, 2010 · Since I grow in raised beds, gravity pulls most of that water into the soil beneath the beds or out of the beds. That leaves the beds always moist, but never wet. That is one of the down sides …

Apr 24, 2015 · In my garden I have several raised beds and several areas that I plant directly in the ground. My watering system allows me to water each bed individually as needed - sometimes I'll …

Aug 4, 2010 · I've had some experience with raised beds. I'll be using them when I start my own garden this fall. The containers would just be a supplement to my garden. Square-foot gardening is a new …