Filling your raised garden bed.
Filling raised vegetable garden beds.
Filling raised beds with compost.
Good compost is rich in organic matter has good moisture retention great for soil structure and can provide lots of nutrition for plants.
However if grass is growing in between.
A raised garden bed is a freestanding structure usually constructed of wood sides about 1 to 2 feet above the ground and can vary greatly in area.
Aside from sometimes adding bulk soil to the bottom of our deepest beds there is no other fillers at the bottom.
Just how the roots.
If you can t use native soil purchase a nutrient rich mixture from your local gardening store.
In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.
Compost is the ultimate soil.
You should use native soil from your yard if possible since this will be best for your plants.
Build a trench for the core.
To fill a raised garden bed you ll need enough soil to fill the bed and some organic compost.
These steps can be used whether you have an existing raised bed or you are filling up a new empty raised bed.
Yep our beds are 100 full of all this good stuff.
Build a trench around 8 12 inches deep and about 1 2 feet down the middle of the raised bed.
Steps to create a core gardening raised bed.
The problem with compost is getting it cheaply in enough quantity to fill a raised garden bed.