Raised Garden Beds

Many times having a raised garden bed just makes better sense. It's easier to maintain, or the ground just isn't suited enough for a garden. As you can see in the picture below the ground here would just take a very large amount of work to get to any point of growing any healthy plants.

First we put up a string line to lay the blocks. 

We then lined the bottom with recycled cardboard as seen in the picture below. Next is to fill in the bed. 4 bags of top soil, 4 bags of composting manure, 4 large bags of garden soil and 1 block of peat moss. 

First we poured out the top soil. Spreading it out in the bottom to hold down the cardboard.

Followed by the composting manure.

Next to follow is the peat moss

Topped off with the gardening soil.

 Then we tilled it all together.

Planning out the plants layout is next. Here we are planting tomato plants they will be closer to the north side of the garden bed leaving room for smaller plants to the south side being out of the shade of the tomato plants. (Tomato's love carrots)

These plants came in a biodegradable containers so we had to score the containers open so that the roots can grow more freely.

now that they are spaced and planted water very well. As you can see the plants are off to one side of the bed.  In front of the tomato's we will be planting carrots in one bed and beets in the second bed.

Now this project will cost all together less then $90 .00. This is a good investment, it's a one time cost. From this point on we will be adding our own compost, and we will have very healthy and very fruitful pants.