Took to Reddit a couple weeks ago with my garden bed and got alot of good feedback. We moved it away from the fence as far a possible, we removed 6-8” of soil and mixed manure and other soil with the below 6”.
Laid chicken wire, trimmed and stapled it to the wood sides, put a 12” deep center divider and secured the corners with a 2×4 that’s buried 8” below the soil level so blocks won’t separate on ends! We have about 18” above the chicken wire which came from “black earth compost”. We’re happy with it for beginners.
(I do plan on adding a lip all around it and building a dome cover for it)
Thank you for all your advice.
(First 2 pics are what we almost made the mistake of doing)
by Lil_Widget
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Looks amazing!!
Oh man, I wish I’d seen the post with all that advice. I have some serious compaction under 6 inches of soil in my beds. 🤣
This bed is gonna kick ass this year! Post pics!
shit was I supposed to put a bottom on My raised beds!? Too late now! Looks awesome.
I need raised beds because I have a hard clay soil. The one upside is I have zero pest problems because it’s like digging through petrified oatmeal. I have a foot of nice soil and under that the plants just go right into the original ground and it’s works out really well.
What were you planning to plant? My first bed was blessed with the most voracious strawberry plants and I just let them have it. You’re gunna want 8 before you know it
Nice work!