How To Grow A Garden In Raised Beds
Do not crowd your plants in raised beds.
How to grow a garden in raised beds. Create an outline of the raised bed with the edging material or even flour from the kitchen. This will improve drainage and moisture retention in the raised beds. Raised beds also warm up quickly in spring making them ideal for sowing and growing veg.
Use a garden fork or shovel to loosen the native soil to a depth of 6-10. The makeshift cold frame will help you gain a few extra growing weeks in spring and autumn. Learn more about raised bed gardening in this video with gardening expert Joe Lampl and Done-In-A-Weekend Extreme host Doug Scott.
Raised beds can be made from a number of materials including scaffolding boards and breeze blocks and can be as big small high or low as you need them. If you build a hoop house on top of a raised bed you can be prepared for any weather handle frost and give yourself a headstart in the spring. Although the soil in raised beds is a good kind still you need to space them in a good way.
In raised beds you will be planting seeds and transplants closer because the beds are smaller and the soil is richer. Garden Ideas growing vegetables in raised beds. Plus they are a great way to grow vegetables at home.
Sure there are some cut flowers that can handle part shade. Raised beds give you more flexibility to control the growing conditions in your garden and make it harder for animals to get at your vegetables. Raised beds are fairly easy to build and maintain.
Then download plans to build the raised bed featured in this video. In the front of your raised bed plant carrots radishes and onions. TV Presenter and Gardening Expert Katie Rushworth shows you how to plant a raised bed vegetable gardenUsing a simple wooden frame filled with compost Kat.