s/o gardening - Who has a Raised Garden?

MrsHabious · October 2011

Now that I am able to garden again, I am thinking of doing a raised garden. Did you all make yours? What wood did you use? I found a few articles on the web, but if you have a great how to article, I would love to read it. Would welcome any tips too!

Thanks!

Jerem2911 · October 2011

We have a raised garden. We had planned to build one a couple years ago and priced everything out. Then we were in Sam's and noticed a display of Greenland Gardener boxes. They were $30 for a raised bed and we bought two. We used organic garden soil to fill the boxes and it took a lot of soil.

Here's the website and there's free shipping on all orders: http://shop.greenlandgardener.com/products/single-bed-garden-42-x-42-x-6

In one bed, we planted 4 tomatoes on on half and 8 green peppers and 4 jalepeno peppers on the other half. The other box had 4 zukes and 5 cukes - we put up a wire fence for the cukes to climb so they don't take up a lot of room in our small garden area.

This is a pic from last year when we added the patio and garden to our backyard...we moved the tomatoes to the left box this year because they blocked too much sun last year.

annabear07 · October 2011

Thanks for posting this Mrs. Habious! We are looking to do a raised garden as well!

Artslvr · October 2011

DH built one this Spring out of railroad ties. It's great. It's about 2/3 the length of our little rambler - very impressive.

Hey Jellisy · October 2011

DH built ours out of pine. We used 8 foot fine boards, 2 high on each long side and 4 foot boards on the short side. My big advice is to leave enough space between beds to walk and kneel. I accomplished the former but not the latter. I would advise not using pressure treated lumber if you are planting a vegetable garden. The chemicals could leech into the soil.

erin8606 · October 2011

We got some plank boards from home depot to build ours. i think it's like 2 6ft square boxes, about 8-12inches high. we made raised boxes in part because we live in houston and the ground is very clay gumbo floody, but also because when we bought the house the former owners just left a huge pile of dirt out back from some landscaping. we just used that dirt and amended it with purchased manure and now about 3 yrs of compost. Agree with pp that if you make big boxes, you want to leave room on each side to get around them.

living_insanity · October 2011

My DH made our raised veggie garden. There are pics in my blog. He made it himself with treated wood and then lined it with that black weed plastic so if there were chemicals on the wood it wouldnt touch the soil or plants.

pixieprincss · October 2011

Me! We do square foot gardening. Here is my blog entry on how we made the beds. We filled them with "Mel's Mix" 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss or coir, 1/3 vermiculite.

kastle · October 2011

I ditto the above points about not using pressure treated lumber. i'm against it for everything b/c of soil leaching issues, truth be told. I also ditto making sure your path is wide enough & if you can't walk around it, not to make the beds more than 2' deep. I didn't think this was important & made mine 3' deep & it was such a pain to reach the back without stepping on the soil (not compacting the soil is one of the points of using raised beds after all).

i strongly recommend reading (you can get from library) Square Foot Gardening. It talks about how to build, gives information on intensive growing (the Mel's mix pixie referred to), etc.

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