Raised Beds Gardening.

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Cooperative Extension specialsit Andy Hankins has great suggestions on how you can build your own raised bed garden. For more, go to vafarmbureau.org

Home Garden 101: How to Make a Raised Bed check us out @ youtubegarden.com

Just a quick video of what you can do to speed up your onion growing from early bought onion sets. Instead of just storing them until mid march or early April to plant them, you can simply plant each set into a module tray in February and this should bring them into growth earlier, and then when the soil warms up you can plant them out on the allotment and they’ll be about a month ahead.

Raised beds are an easy way to make a wonderful garden when dealing with poor soil conditions or if you wish to have a tidy working area. Learn the recipe for summer vegetable gratin, which will be terrific when made with the veggies from your own raised garden bed.

For my birthday on June 19th I received a 0 voucher from my other half, Christopher. With it I decided to buy myself a REAL worm farm and some more worms. In this video I show the contents, construction and setup of the new worm farm. It looks fantastic and I think it will out perform my little home made one by a mile.. Let’s see..

Crepe Myrtle Transplant Part I Andy Robinson, The Landscape Renovator, explains in detail the best method for transplanting trees and other foliage. For more great landscaping tips visit www.thelandscaperenovator.com

Part 3 of the raised bed expansion. This last bed in built into a deeper sloping hill. Next year I will need to add another layer (2 x 6 board) on top of the two layers I built this year. I want and think I need to in order to keep the grass out of the bed. My goal for 2011 is 500 lbs of vegetables. In 2011 I grew 175 lbs from 73 square feet of garden. This year the garden will be 188 square feet.

Here is a short video showing how I am building my raised beds for my backyard garden. I am using free wood and give you some ideas for how you can do this for almost free as well.

Beautiful detail of flowers in bloom captured with Sony High Def HDR HC9 Handy-cam camcorder.

www.toothsoap.com – Different growing systems are available for every farmer and climate.