Raised Beds Gardening.

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Here’s a summary of what I did to prepare the soil for the raised beds in my new greenhouse, along with a look at the current layout. It’s really starting to come together. Needless to say, I’m very proud of the results.

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.

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..

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.

Plant your own raised bed garden with the Raised Garden Bed Kits. The raised bed gardening trend is blooming all over America. It’s the modern way to grow beautiful flowers and raise fresh vegetables. raisedgardenbedkits.blogspot.com

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

Gardeners’ World presenter Toby Buckland talks about raised beds and what to grow in them, with some useful advice on how to ward off those pesky slugs!

These innovative raised bed brackets allow you to make any size or shape raised bed required. Can make up to three tiers in height. Each kit comes with four brackets and screws making one tier. Up to three tiers can be made. Timber required needs to be 22mm x 150mm. If you would like to discover more about Poly tunnels then why not contact us at www.FirstTunnels.co.uk or join our Facebook group at www.Facebook.com/Polytunnels

See how my raised vegetable bed was transformed into a permaculture type of raised bed so that future digging would not be required thus safeguarding the soil structure for better vegetable growing…