| By definition, raised bed gardening is to simply have a | | | | hard if you have properly set up your garden bed. |
| garden that is built on top of your existing native soil. | | | | 5. Make sure that you use level frames in all four |
| You can either choose combine native soil in your | | | | directions. This is important because your water will |
| raised bed garden or you can choose not to - it's | | | | not be evenly distributed if you have un-level soil |
| entirely up to you. You can plant vegetables, herbs | | | | areas. It would fill one spot and run over another |
| and even shrubs in a raised bed garden. Read below | | | | very quickly. Either way, your plants would not get |
| for the six easy steps on how to start a raised bed | | | | the proper water they would need to grow. |
| garden for yourself. | | | | 6. The idea behind raised bed gardening is that it |
| | | | allows you the chance to be able to plant your |
| 1. Choose your planting site properly and carefully. | | | | garden by using flat, even soil. Be sure that when |
| Make sure that you pick a spot that gets at least | | | | you start to fill your raised bed garden that you have |
| eight hours of warm sunlight every day. The area | | | | appropriate amounts of topsoil, manure and compost |
| must be flat with enough moving room for you to | | | | and that the bed is raked flat and evenly before you |
| work around in as well as being near a water source. | | | | start to put in your seeds. |
| 2. Be definite on the size and shape of your garden. | | | | If you were able to set it up correctly, you will be |
| Be sure that you would be able to have enough | | | | happy to know that raised bed gardening does not |
| space to move around in so you would not step on | | | | require a lot of maintenance at all. Just keep in mind |
| to the plant bed. | | | | that it is important to have as much moisture in your |
| 3. Make sure that you prepare your planting area | | | | soil as possible to make sure that your plants will be |
| according to what you are planning to plant in it. | | | | able to absorb the minerals and nutrients that are in it |
| 4. Construct your plant bed carefully. Choose wood | | | | quickly and more efficiently, thus giving you a |
| planks that are sturdy enough to hold the sides of | | | | healthier and more bountiful crop harvest. |
| your garden bed in. Raised bed gardening is not that | | | | |