How To Make Vegetable Garden Beds

How to plant a raised bed garden.

How to make vegetable garden beds. Fill the bed with good quality potting soil or compost and rake the surface smooth and level. This reduces all of the weeds including the ones in our weed id guide reduces weed competition and preserves soil moisture in your raised vegetable garden beds. Remove any rocks or debris. Draw a second parallel line a further 3 7cm the thickness of the board from the first and join up the two lines.

Vegetable gardens need a lot of light so roger and his helpers placed the bed in an area that gets sun for most of the day. Raised beds become more space efficient by gently rounding the soil to form an arc. Plants in raised beds may be spaced a little closer together because fertilizer and manure can be concentrated in the small gardening area. Raised garden beds for vegetables this tutorial is all about creating inexpensive raised beds to help your family grow more of your own food.

Once your raised raised vegetable garden beds are filled with fresh soil cover the surface with an inch or two of mulch. On the long edge measure 8cm from the end and draw a line down to the exact centre of the plank parallel to the short edge. Step 2 cut and assemble the frame. To improve drainage and prevent weeds from growing up into the garden he removed the grass beneath the bed and tilled the earth before adding soil.

A rounded bed that is 5 feet wide across its base for. Mark out the vertical slots.