When you decide to build a garden from scratch, you'll quickly find yourself facing some big decisions. For one, should you plant in the ground or build raised beds? And if you go with raised beds, ...
Growing vegetables, flowers, and herbs in a raised garden bed is a handy solution if you have poor soil or drainage problems, and it allows you to start planting earlier in spring. But how deep should ...
Make sure you're choosing the setup that works best with your gardening goals and your location conditions. Raised garden beds offer superior soil control, easier maintenance, and better protection ...
While at the pool this past week, I had a friend who asked me about getting started with some new raised beds. He has reached the point where he is working with a number of raised beds. He talked to ...
The German term "hugelkultur" describes a technique that involves creating a raised bed by using a base of decaying wood and other organic materials.
This video is about how stand up raised bed food gardening can make your life so much easier! Self Sufficient Me is based on ...
Raised garden beds offer advantages over traditional in-ground gardening, especially for those with soil issues or limited mobility. When selecting materials, consider factors like rot resistance, ...
Spring is here, and those of us who garden are thinking about what we are going to do in our gardens this year. Some of us are very familiar with using raised beds for gardening. If you are ...
Lots of cool-season vegetables can be planted now. Vegetable gardens may be grown in-ground or in raised beds, even in containers. Because they provide several advantages, planting in raised beds is ...
If you’ve spent any time chatting with fellow gardeners lately, you might have picked up on a new shift. Raised beds, once the darling of backyard plots, are starting to lose their shine as people ...
Recently, my wife and I faced an unexpected problem: garden shame. We were preparing to host a large gathering of neighbors at our house — a meeting to discuss sensitive environmental and community ...