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Raised Garden Beds

May 17, 2014 by Becky

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Raised garden beds have become very popular in recent years, and for good reason.  Growing more food in less space with less work sounds too good to be true, but it’s not!   If you are thinking about taking the plunge and building raised beds for your garden, we’ve included links to 12 different tutorials for raised beds.

Why Raised Beds?

Less Compacted Soil.  Roots (and worms!) need air space in the soil to grow, so if you’re stepping in your garden beds, you are compacting the soil and destroying that important air space!  For more information about compost and soil amending, see this blog post all about it.

Deeper Soil.  The deeper the roots can grow, the healthier your plants will be and the better your harvest.  It is often suggested to line  the bottom of your garden box with cardboard or black weed barrier cloth, but this will prevent your roots from growing as deep as they want.  Try it without and see how your garden grows!

Weed Control.  Your veggies will be further from the grass and weeds in your yard, but you will also be able to plant more densely…crowding out weeds that would otherwise grow.

Grow More in Less Space (with less work!)  Traditionally, our gardens have always had narrow rows for plants and wide rows for walkways.  There is no real reason to design your garden this way, except maybe because it’s how your grandparents gardened.  If you have wider rows for your plants, you can fit much more than if you were to plant single rows.  Utilize your space more efficiently and you can grow more in your garden than ever before!

Here is a great link to another good article about raised garden beds and on how to build a raised garden bed.

Check out these great tutorials for raised garden beds!

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 Rectangle Garden Boxes    |   Vinyl Garden Boxes

Garden Bed CollageU-Shaped Garden Box   |   Narrow Garden Box

Garden Box Collage 3Long Garden Boxes   |   Cinder Block Garden Box

Garden Box Collage 4Garden Box with Brick Border   |   Tall Garden Box

Raised Beds Collage 5Rolling Casters Patio Box   |   Painted Garden Box with Cage

Garden Box Collage 5Raised Garden Boxes   |   Vertical Pallet Planter

Let us know what kind of raised beds you have in your garden, or what you plan to try!

Happy Gardening!

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Becky is a wife, mother, avid cook and novice gardener. She loves growing organic, wholesome food right in her backyard that she can transform into a delicious creation in her kitchen. When she's not growing or cooking food, she enjoys running half marathons, reading, and watching her children pull weeds in the garden.
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