People who love raised bed gardening will insist that those who haven’t tried it are missing out on something really great. It’s a way to make the entire gardening process easier. Plus plants grow earlier in the season and flowers and vegetables seem to thrive more.

Why Raised Beds Make Gardening Easier

Raised bed gardening involves raising garden beds above ground level. This eliminates the need for deep bending when you complete gardening chores like watering, weeding, cultivating, planting and harvesting.

Many gardeners pull weeds up right away by the roots. Weeding with a raised bed garden is much easier if you can pull weeds at knee level or sometimes even higher. You have the power to determine how high you want to raise your beds when you choose to do raised bed gardening. Raise it to whatever height is most convenient for you.

Why Raised Bed Gardening Makes Your Plants More Productive

Healthy plants need rich soil full of nutrients. When you do raised bed gardening, you’re growing your plants in large container that make up the raised beds. You can easily add whatever fertilizer you want to your beds. Peat moss and compost are good ideas. These fertilizers stay put with a raised bed garden. They don’t wash away and help nourish the plants in your garden, and not your lawn, trees, or worse, weeds.

Why Raised Bed Gardening Produces Earlier Harvests

You can get a head start on any gardening season with raised bed gardening. You’ll never have to hope that the frost has passed and risk taking a chance on your plants. Raised bed plants don’t get cold as easily and aren’t as quickly affected by frost.

This is because the soil in raised beds warms up faster in the spring than the soil at grown level. Ground level soil only gets the surface warmed by the sun. In raised beds, the sun hits the top and the sides of the raised bed. The soil absorbs and keeps the heat which help seeds grow faster and roots to spread more quickly.

How To Make A Raised Bed Garden

Creating beds for raised bed gardening is one of the simplest landscaping projects to do. All you have to do is clear debris such as rocks, weeds, brush and grass from the area where you’d like to build the bed. Use some lumber to build wall around the area. You can even use railroad ties, bales of hay, cermamic tiles, broken terra cotta pots, stones or broken concrete. Build the sides as high as you would like them to be. Then fill the beds with topsoil, compost and peat moss. Smooth the mixture with a rake. Then plant, fertilize and harvest like you usually would.