Creating raised garden beds 9 Articles

by Candace Williams

Soft soil that isn't walked on during planting, cultivating, weeding or harvesting is the key advantage to raised beds. Another one is that in poor soil you need only improve the soil you are planting in not all of the lan...read more

by Jason Isbell

Raised beds are a great way to ease gardening. The are usually warmer than the ground, since they are higher they are easier on your back, and they do not compact as much, making them easier to weed, and your plants grow ...read more

by Sammy Stein

Raised beds can really benefit your garden and can be used in many ways. They provide an easily accessible space in which to garden. They offer a change of height, you can use different materials and some you can even mov...read more

by Rex Trulove

Why would a person want to use raised beds in their garden? As you might think, they have advantages that outweigh the effort to create them. There are also many reasons you may want to use raised beds. Let me give some ex...read more

by Melanie Marten

Most gardening books and experts can tell you how to make a raised garden bed, Start by chopping out your grass or sod and then digging the dirt up. Hard work! Can you make a raised bed for your vegetable or flower g...read more

by Kevin Brown

Last week Frank and I decided to have a go at peat cutting. On our way to turf and claim an old disused bank we called on a neighbouring croft to borrow another spade, Frank's having seen better days. The neighbour was har...read more

by Glory Lennon

As with many of my gardening ventures, I struck upon the raised bed quite inadvertently. How did I do this? Very easily. It seemed that my compost pile made a really good raised bed. It was warm, loose soil, rich in nut...read more

by jf

Raised garden beds should really be under the same subject category as terraced beds. First if a bed is to be raised the type of plants must be selected that can take accumulations of water. Many times Ivy or hedges are...read more

by Chris Harrington

Gardening can be a very rewarding hobbie. It can also be very time consuming. One way to eliminate plowing up the whole yard to have a decent garden is to have raised beds. A raised bed is a partitioned area of dirt ...read more