Raised Garden Beds - How to Build and Install a Raised Garden Bed. Experienced gardeners use raised beds to sidestep a long list of gardening challenges.
These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they're also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. Bad dirt is out, because you fill a raised bed with a customized soil-and-compost blend. Drainage is built into the bed walls, which hold the soil in place to keep erosion in check. Greater exposure to the sun warms the bed, which allows more plant diversity and extends the growing season. Plants can be spaced closely together, so yields go up, water-use efficiency is maximized and weeds are crowded out. How to Build a Raised Vegetable Garden.
Raised Garden Beds. Lay out the beds so they are horizontally facing south It's best if the long side of the bed faces south. This assures equal light exposure to all the plants growing in the bed. If your bed is aligned the other way (the ends facing south), you may have planting limitations because taller plants in front can block the sunlight to small plants in back. How to build a raised bed for your garden.