Raised bed filler

[dickiebird]

Straw, leaves, pinecones, ..if you have mounds of them sitting around your property that you can scoop up. They will still compost. I have done the same with my own flower/vegetable beds.

How long do pinecones take to break down?

THANX RICH

 

[Just-Moxie]

A while.....I used them in the bottom of 5 gallon buckets, for planters.

 

[majorcatfish]

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

spring 2016

winter 2016

happy gardening.....

 

[chic rustler]

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

spring 2016

winter 2016
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happy gardening.....

That's beautiful!

 

[chic rustler]

Got them filled. The top 4 inches is Kellogg garden soil. Seems like pretty good stuff. I suspect the leaves and compost under will break down and settle more. I will probably add another 6 inches or more of the Kellogg stuff later

 

[majorcatfish]

only 2 beds? just wait till you get hooked ... started with 5 beds now have 11 .

the nice thing about beds you can grow pretty much year round.....

keep up the good work make sure you post photos....

 

[chic rustler]

only 2 beds? just wait till you get hooked ... started with 5 beds now have 11 .

the nice thing about beds you can grow pretty much year round.....

keep up the good work make sure you post photos....

I also have a 40x40 back to Eden style garden
I'm planning on building a few more beds already. Probably two more of these 8 foot beds and one 20 foot with a trellis in front of the rabbit hutches to shade them in the summer.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm so raised bed jealous, I can hardly stand myself!!!!

How tall are the sides? We are consumed by gophers here in So. OR and there is no way I can trap or drown them all.

 

[majorcatfish]

@murphysranch
1/4"wire mesh cloth on the bottoms of the beds will stop them from digging underneath. a good fence all the way round helps too...

no gophers here just rabbits and voles but the black snakes keep them under control ..
my beds are 12"

@chic rustler have a 35x55 main garden as well....

 

[chic rustler]

We have gophers here too. I trap what I can. We used chicken wire in the bottom of the boxes. The holes are smaller than all the gophers I have caught and I had a roll laying around.