From left: Bob Hawkins, Nicole Pramik, and the author at The Farm at Okefenokee. What do I put on the bottom of a raised garden bed? Design your raised bed garden layout to maximize sunlight and ...

How Deep Should a Raised Bed Be? The minimum for crops with shallow roots such as lettuce, spinach, and kale, is a soil depth of 6 inches. Crops with deep roots need about 36 inches of soil. If ...

There are a lot of layouts that will do the trick, but a few stand above the rest. In this article, horticulture expert Matt ...

Read on for your DIY raised garden bed tutorial—new garden tools not included. It might just be the best garden design idea you’ve ever tried. Plants in a vegetable or cutting garden are often ...

I’ve built raised garden beds out of railroad ... about not having to build new raised beds every few years, I developed a simple, sturdy design that anyone can follow. It is the only way ...

Not enough space for a full garden? Is bending or reaching an issue? A raised-bed garden ... required 9 cuts for our final design. A larger or different shaped bed may require more sawing and ...

Spring is here, and those of us who garden are thinking about what we are going to do in our gardens this year. Some of us are very familiar with using raised beds for gardening. If you are ...