A wood-framed raised bed for your garden is simply a wooden box—usually a square or a rectangle—that is open to the ground below and the sun and sky above. You can make a wood-framed raised bed from pine, spruce, cedar, redwood, or composite wood. To make a wood-framed raised bed you will need enough wood…
Raised beds
Garden Raised Beds for Better, Tastier Vegetables
Garden raised beds can help you grow better, tastier, and bigger vegetables. Raised beds filled with rich soil and organic amendments will warm faster in spring for an earlier start and an earlier harvest. Use raised bed when the soil is poor—heavy clay or too loose sandy soil. Raised beds of rich, organic soil will…
Raised Beds: Making the Kitchen Garden
Consider a raised bed if you live in an area where the soil is rocky or mostly sand or mostly clay. Adding organic matter to your soil is always a good idea and will always help make poor soil better. But sometimes a raised bed is the best solution. You can choose the soil in…
