Spring is whispering around the corner, and your raised beds should be bursting with promise. Yet, despite all your planning ...

Just about everybody agrees that raised beds are the way to grow vegetables in a home garden, especially when your alleged “soil” is lousy clay or construction fill. Raised beds elevate plants up and ...

In this video, we turn a simple ibc into a self-watering wicking bed perfect for any gardener wanting to save water, save ...

Let’s have a quick show of hands: Who enjoys weeding? It looks like nobody does. The only redeeming quality I find in the job is that it slows me down long enough to check on the plants that I’m ...

With so many choices available at garden centers, how do you choose the best mulch material for your vegetable garden? Wood chips or pine bark? Or perhaps a synthetic material that will help trap ...

Q: We won’t move to Las Vegas until after June 1, and I am excited about using a raised bed. I’m guessing that’s too late to start a salsa garden, so what are my options? Wait until next spring?

I’ve waited nearly nine years for raised beds in the vegetable garden and finally had my dream come true. It’s not that I mind digging directly into native soil. If I had the rich clay I had in my ...

Thinking about starting a garden or changing up your current setup? Raised garden beds have been all over social media and gardening blogs for years. They look tidy and promise better soil and ...

I’VE ALWAYS FAVORED RAISED BEDS – BOXED OR UNBOXED. OVER 30 YEARS, I’VE GARDENED AT EIGHT DIFFERENT HOUSES, EACH OFFERING GOOD AND BAD SOIL, SUN AND SHADE AND PLANTING SPACES THAT VARIED FROM AN ...

Raised gardens are typically filled with a rich, raised bed soil mix made of sand, compost, and topsoil. However, to get even better results from raised bed gardening, you can add other materials to ...