vfem
Garden Addicted
I'm glad there are really good reasons to having them... I decided I wanted them because they looked nice, and my it would make it harder for my daughter to get into them! ROTFLMAO :bun
Raised Garden Project - just started!
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beavis
Deeply Rooted
here is some more information on raised bed gardening:
Raised beds are versatile, easy to use, and have many advantages over traditional gardening. For example, a raised bed allows you to easily control your soil mixtures so that you always have the proper soil for your plants. As you can customize the soil mixtures in your raised beds, you can greatly improve soil drainage for your plants. Many gardeners build raised beds just for this reason. Raising your garden bed even eight inches above the existing ground level can greatly improve drainage.
While one of the most obvious benefits to gardening with raised beds is their adjustable height, raised beds also have numerous other benefits. For example, because raised beds are designed so that you dont have to actually step into your raised beds for maintenance, you can produce larger quantities of fruits in vegetables in the same amount space that youd use in a traditional garden plot.
Garden maintenance is also easy with raised beds. You can quickly and easily remove weeds and control pests in your raised beds. If you use black plastic mulch for weed control, you will use significantly less plastic for your raised beds that in a traditional garden. Moreover, rodents and other pests that like to eat your veggies in a regular garden bed will have difficulty reaching plants in raised beds. Crop rotation is also relatively painless in raised beds, which can help prevent problems with diseases that can form in the soil over time.
Watering is also easy and more efficient, as you irrigate only where plants are growing and not the walking spaces between your garden rows. Additionally, you can grow your plants closer together, which helps to shade the soil and reduces evaporation.
You can also quickly change soil and plants in your raised beds. For example, using a raised bed makes it very easy to plant annuals in the summer and replace them with bulbs later in the growing season.
If you grow vegetables or fruits, raised beds can greatly increase the growing season. Soil actually heats up quicker in raised beds and the addition of a removable plastic frame transforms your raised bed into an instant cold frame.
Raised beds can also make gardening more creative, as you can use many different kinds of materials to build you beds including beautiful hardwoods, bricks, stones, and recycled materials such as railroad ties.
Raised beds are versatile, easy to use, and have many advantages over traditional gardening. For example, a raised bed allows you to easily control your soil mixtures so that you always have the proper soil for your plants. As you can customize the soil mixtures in your raised beds, you can greatly improve soil drainage for your plants. Many gardeners build raised beds just for this reason. Raising your garden bed even eight inches above the existing ground level can greatly improve drainage.
While one of the most obvious benefits to gardening with raised beds is their adjustable height, raised beds also have numerous other benefits. For example, because raised beds are designed so that you dont have to actually step into your raised beds for maintenance, you can produce larger quantities of fruits in vegetables in the same amount space that youd use in a traditional garden plot.
Garden maintenance is also easy with raised beds. You can quickly and easily remove weeds and control pests in your raised beds. If you use black plastic mulch for weed control, you will use significantly less plastic for your raised beds that in a traditional garden. Moreover, rodents and other pests that like to eat your veggies in a regular garden bed will have difficulty reaching plants in raised beds. Crop rotation is also relatively painless in raised beds, which can help prevent problems with diseases that can form in the soil over time.
Watering is also easy and more efficient, as you irrigate only where plants are growing and not the walking spaces between your garden rows. Additionally, you can grow your plants closer together, which helps to shade the soil and reduces evaporation.
You can also quickly change soil and plants in your raised beds. For example, using a raised bed makes it very easy to plant annuals in the summer and replace them with bulbs later in the growing season.
If you grow vegetables or fruits, raised beds can greatly increase the growing season. Soil actually heats up quicker in raised beds and the addition of a removable plastic frame transforms your raised bed into an instant cold frame.
Raised beds can also make gardening more creative, as you can use many different kinds of materials to build you beds including beautiful hardwoods, bricks, stones, and recycled materials such as railroad ties.
vfem
Garden Addicted
Yes I officially think those are wonderful reasons, and after building and filling them I can see the ease there is to caring for them!
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beavis
Deeply Rooted
Progress report:
vfem
Garden Addicted
I'm glad you had a nice day out to work... poured rain her all morning and afternoon.
That is just WONDERFUL! I bet you will be really impressed come spring with just how much you'll be able to collect. Its so well protected. I'm sure nature don't have anything on you....!
Wow I though I had a busy day. You did an amazing job on that. Looky at what we built today. It's the fort Knox of rabbit hutches. You know I don't have a fence. I wanted to buy one but the shipping was more than the cost of wood. I can't wait for a bunny, and all it's poop. 
allabout
Attractive To Bees
Ya'll stop it....your making all the others look bad. Tanks...I've GOT to see the end product...a hutch is on my to-do list.
me&thegals
Garden Ornament
Very cool, everybody! Thanks for all the info on raised bed gardening. It makes me long for a normal-sized garden again so that I could do such beautiful and elegant (and organized!) gardening 
obsessed
Deeply Rooted
That's a real nice bunny coop. My bunnies are in wire cages wood rack that i built. it doesn't look as nice as yours. I am still trying to understand the def of straight, level, plumb. That is what is keeping me from getting chickens, my complete lack of carpentry skills.
