A raised garden bed is a freestanding structure usually constructed of wood sides about 1 to 2 feet above the ground and can vary greatly in area.
Filling raised vegetable garden beds.
Regardless of size multiple raised gardens should be spaced at least 18 inches apart to make it easier to walk in between beds.
Yep our beds are 100 full of all this good stuff.
These steps can be used whether you have an existing raised bed or you are filling up a new empty raised bed.
Just how the roots.
In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.
Build a trench around 8 12 inches deep and about 1 2 feet down the middle of the raised bed.
Filling raised beds with compost.
Filling your raised garden bed.
However if grass is growing in between.
In this video i show how you can fill a raised vegetable garden bed and save money on soil costs.
Build a trench for the core.
To fill a raised garden bed you ll need enough soil to fill the bed and some organic compost.
You should use native soil from your yard if possible since this will be best for your plants.
Now that we have a better idea of the types of materials we want to add to our raised beds it is time to fill them up.
Steps to create a core gardening raised bed.
The problem with compost is getting it cheaply in enough quantity to fill a raised garden bed.
Aside from sometimes adding bulk soil to the bottom of our deepest beds there is no other fillers at the bottom.