Recent content by Billp53

OK I want to post pictures on a post to go along with a question but can not figure out how help please!

This past spring I planted lettuce in my box garden but it did not make but now after removing the boxs to store for the winter look what has come up where the lettuce boxes were, or at least I thin k that's what I have coming up what do you all think?

Will mine might not be the best way but it seem to work for my first time this year. I got fence boards cut one in half lengthwise and made my boxed one and a half boards tall and about a foot wide and no bottom. My length went from 6 feet to 12 depending on room in the yard. I got bag compost...

Will my garden is starting to play out as the weather is getting cooler so I'm pulling things up and taking them to my compost pile in the back of my yard so fall must be a coming. After I pull the plants up I'll add the dirt from each box to the compost and store the boxes. Soon I'll start...

I made my beds about a 16 to 18 inch wide and lined the bottom with old news papers about one or two pages thick. That seem to help keep the grass I sat the box over from coming up except for a few very determined sprigs. So weeds where not a problem like I have had in the past with a regular...

Just wanted to say Hi I started my first raised garden this past spring and even though I am not new to gardening I am to doing a raised bed type. So I thought joining a forum like this would help me prepair for next year and maybe avoid a few mistakes I made this past season. The boxes I built...