there has to be a good nursery out your way that offers "garden soil" ....yes would add a couple bags of black kow sure there is a hippie garden store/ feed store around. get a bag of greensand to add as well. here just use a good 13-13-13 or 17-17-17
i love raised bed gardening
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Major, you have the prettiest gardens I've ever seen...just consistently neat, verdant and lovely! Oh, that life below the....
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I'm tasked with the filling of two raised beds with material this year, though I have to fill deeper beds...mine are comprised of hay bale sides. Three bales long, one bale wide, one bale thickness tall. I don't intend to spend much money on soil or such, though I may put a final layer of soil on in which to plant seeds.
Right now one bed is already started, with a wood chip over soil base, followed by a layer of hay, some bark, then heavy cardboard, then leaves, then more hay.
I hope to fill in with more hay, leaves, chips, horse manure and, hopefully, a source of rabbit manure...I'm going to advertise for wanting some and see what pops up.
One raised bed will be spuds, so that one's not a problem, as I can add more material as they grow, sort of treating them like spuds being grown in a tire tower. I'll add lawn clippings, composted coop cleanings, more hay, etc. as those grow. Taters grown in hay have pretty much been done and successfully for a long time, so I don't worry too much about those.
The other bed needs topped off prior to planting, as I won't be adding much to it after the carrots, beets, squash, onions, etc. have been planted there.
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