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When considering when to start your garden, tradition might tell you that Autumn and Winter are desolate seasons, and your gardening hobby has to be tabled until the Spring. However when you are planting in raised garden beds, nothing could be further from the truth. No matter where you live, these late seasons still have many advantages to offer when it comes to starting and maintaining your garden. In fact, Winter is the very best time to prepare your garden for an abundant season in the…

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼✨Comment GARDEN and I’ll send you a list of the best, most affordable carbon and nitrogen sources to use while building a lasagna garden. 🌿🥳 We love using a hybrid lasagna garden method (inspired by the hugelkultur method) to fill our raised bed gardens. As you can see in the video, layers of brown (carbon) and green (nitrogen) materials are placed directly into the garden beds. The soil is enriched as the layers begin to compost over…

Are you ready to start a new raised bed garden? Have you purchased all the necessary materials and are now wondering just how to fill it? Look no further! With this handy guide, you'll be able to successfully fill your raised bed and create the perfect growing environment for your garden plants. Follow along as we take a step-by-step approach to properly filling your raised bed with the right materials, in the right order, to ensure your plants thrive!

Sam | More than Gardening on Instagram: "Filling my 7 wood raised garden beds like this right now! Next on the list is to build/assemble my metal raised bed, fill that, and get all the grow bags & pots filled up with soil & compost. The garden is really start to take shape & I can’t wait to get everything planted over the next 6ish weeks! What are you working on this week?? #garden #gardening #raisedbed #raisedgardenbed #howtofillaraisedgardenbed #morethangardening #reels #explore…

Best Way to Fill Raised Garden Beds Jump to DIY A few weeks ago I built several raised garden beds, each of which cost me less than $50 a box to build. Now that they were all built and in place, reality hit and I knew I needed to fill them up if I actually

By putting in various layers of things like cardboard, mulch, yard clippings, and soil, the "lasagna gardening" method provides weed-free garden beds.

Hugelkultur, a German word meaning “mound or hill culture," is the process of layering organic garden waste inside the raised garden bed using large rotting logs, sticks and other debris to create a flourishing environment that improves soil quality, requires minimal maintenance, and has better water retention. Check out the link below for more information!

Raised bed gardening is really the way to go, particularly if your native soil is terrible with clay, rock, or sand. With raised beds, you control the quality of your soil, leading to healthier plants and a better harvest. The only problem is that filling those raised beds with high-quality soil can be pretty expensive — but as a gardener, you know that everything starts with healthy soil, and you don’t want to cheap out, right? Fortunately, there’s good news for both the conscientious…

Want to learn how to build a raised bed in your garden? Here's a list of the best free DIY raised garden beds plans & ideas for inspirations.

Build up soil in a Raised Garden Bed by adding layers: cardboard; composted manure; planting soil. You can also use shredded paper and composted kitchen scraps in between the layers!