Discover essential tips for preparing your raised garden beds for planting vegetables in this comprehensive guide. Learn how ...

This is the first episode in our growing food in small spaces series and it shows how to build a raised garden bed made from ...

JOAN CAINE’S Lake Forest Park garden used to look much like her neighbors’. But that was before she hired Cameron Scott of Exteriorscapes to turn her front yard into a flourishing food factory. Scott ...

The best fill materials for raised garden beds are the ones that can decompose on their own, like twigs, leaves, straw, and more. Starting your raised bed with a layer of cardboard or newspaper can ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. With spring upon us, it’s time to get into ...

Raised beds can make gardening easy for a number of reasons. They warm up faster in the spring, they are easier to weed and maintain, and they give a garden a nice, organized look. Also, the soil does ...

The fall season is a great time to prepare garden beds for next year. When spring rolls around, you’ll be relieved to already have the garden primed for planting; that’s one less thing to deal with ...

When it comes to starting a vegetable garden, there are a lot of factors to consider. For example, you need to decide if you're going to try growing vegetables from seed or which gardening techniques ...

One of the most frustrating things gardeners face here in southern Ohio is clay soil. Hard and gooey. Glue in spring, brick in summer. For some reason, weeds don’t have a problem growing in it, but ...

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 beds are perfect for avoiding ground-level pests in the garden, but the crops grown inside can still fall victim to larger mammals looking for food. When freshly planted bulbs and hearty ...