Raised Beds Tutorial
The bed frame can be as simple as 2 x 4s on top of the ground.
Raised beds tutorial. Increased yield you can plant seeds even vegetable seeds closer together in a raised garden bed because the light soil mixture improves the effectiveness of the water and oxygen this allows the roots to expand easier. Again the less you have to import from outside your own land the better. Here s my flower bed tutorial from the archives. I chose to purchase 5 4 x 6 x 8 foot long cedar decking planks.
Pick a spot for your garden bed. Using home made compost is ideal and you can also use loam topsoil dug from the location of the new beds in certain situations. I have a great project to keep you busy this weekend. A raised garden bed also tends to be warmer than the ground so you can plant a couple weeks earlier than you could just planting in the ground.
Easy tutorials designs to build raised beds or vegetable flower garden box planters with inexpensive materials. Cedar decking planks. Mark the location for your garden bed and remove the grass from this area. Raised garden beds help create a barrier to keep animals and pests out they keep out weeds prevent soil compaction and provide good drainage.
The beauty of this particular raised bed build is that it is cheap and easy to build. How to build a raised garden bed planning your garden location. I have raised vegetable beds around my house and i love them. It really is a cinch.
It covers the important basics of building a productive raised bed such as planning material selections designs and tips on how to fill your raised beds. Pick a good sunny spot in your yard and build a raised vegetable bed. In case you missed part 1 here it is. The wood and rebar will cost you no more than 50 if you re using untreated pine planks and the entire build.
Set those pipes upright against the bed sides making sure that each pvc pipe has a parallel pipe mirroring it across the bed so each pair can act as support tubes for the hoops. On the inside of each of the long 8 foot sides of the raised bed evenly space three of your 12 inch pieces of 1 2 inch pvc pipe.