How To Make A Raised Garden Bed
Raised beds curtail creeping weeds and drifting seeds.
How to make a raised garden bed. This makes a raised bed that is 8 feet wide 3 feet deep and 18 inches tall. A raised bed garden is a garden built on top of your native soil sometimes incorporating native soil sometimes not. Hemlock fir and pine are suitable materials for raised beds but arent very long lasting. If you need some ideas or instructions this list will definitely be helpful.
9 cedar boards 1x6x8 1 cedar board 22. These gardens can be contained such as when you build a wood or stone structure to keep the bed intact or they can be more free form with soil and amendments merely piled several inches high. The wood to use for a raised bed is your decision. Cedar and redwood are naturally water resistant but can be expensive and hard to find.
You can fill planters with top quality soil for more productivity in a smaller space. Make sure it is raised bed soil because it matters for nutrients. Building a raised garden bed. Cheap raised garden beds you can diy.
This is my first garden so. Pressure treated lumber has been a controversial topic. Tending raised plants is a lot easier on the back and knees. How to build your free raised garden beds the right way although garden beds are not a permanent construction you definitely dont want to move or replace them once you set them on the ground.
That was about as large of a bed as we could easily manage and still be able to reach the whole thing. Heres how to build a raised garden bed in your backyard as well as some advice on using the right wood and soil. The list of reasons for switching to raised vegetable garden beds is long but these are the main advantages. Horticulturist myra marsocci provides some tips to get started check out this.
Pressure treated lumber is an option. I will be posting update videos on my garden. To fill you need 22 bags of miracle grow raised bed soil. You could definitely make one smaller if you adjust the measurements.
Raised garden beds are fairly easy to construct even easier to maintain and offer myriad benefits for your garden and you.