| Every year, many people attempt gardening the | | | | 5. Garden Where You Want - You can garden close |
| traditional way and fail. Traditional gardening to us | | | | to your house, on a deck, balcony, or patio. You can |
| means digging long rows in your backyard, planting, | | | | move some containers around depending on the |
| watering, weeding constantly, and controlling pests. | | | | season or your tastes. |
| Container and raised-bed gardening offers many | | | | 6. Healthy Organic Produce With No Pesticides - If |
| advantages over traditional gardening. Here are our | | | | everything you put in your container garden is |
| top 10 benefits of container and raised-bed gardening. | | | | organic, including the seeds, then you know what you |
| 1. No Weeding - Save countless hours of drudgery | | | | have grown is organic. You won't need to use |
| compared to traditional gardening by having little or | | | | pesticides. |
| no weeding in a container garden. By starting with | | | | 7. Garden Without Bending Over (Unless You Really |
| new soil in your containers, you don't have any | | | | Want To) - Container gardens can be set up at waist |
| weeds from the beginning. Placing the containers or | | | | height. That way you do not have to bend over and |
| raised beds higher off the ground means fewer | | | | container gardens can be made wheelchair accessible |
| weed seeds can reach your container garden. When | | | | as well. |
| you do get the occasional weed, it's easy to pull out | | | | 8. Save Water and Water Less Often - The |
| of the loose soil. | | | | container gardening mixture of compost, vermiculite, |
| 2. No Fertilizer - Using the right raised bed garden | | | | and peat moss can retain more moisture than |
| mixture with 1/3 course vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss, | | | | backyard soil. Once your raised bed garden is fairly |
| and 1/3 compost you don't have to fertilize. Just top | | | | saturated, you don't need to water as often. |
| off your container or raised bed each year with | | | | 9. No Digging Or Soil Testing - Just fill your container |
| compost and that's it. | | | | with the soil mixture you bought and you don't have |
| 3. Greater Yield and Variety In A Small Space - Due | | | | to dig anything up and there is no need to test the |
| to the loose soil and no walking area, you can grow a | | | | soil. |
| variety of produce right next to each other. This is | | | | 10. Save Time And Have More Success - Put in |
| where you can really take advantage of companion | | | | fewer hours and get more produce for your |
| planting. | | | | gardening time. |
| 4. No Soil Compaction - Container gardens don't allow | | | | Have fun and enjoy your success by gardening in |
| gardeners to walk in the growing area. This prevents | | | | containers and raised beds. Its quite addicting and |
| soil compaction which hurts the plant roots and limits | | | | you can grow in them year round by selecting the |
| growth. | | | | right varieties, depending on your climate zone. |