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    We are doing raised beds this year in a big way compared to last year. Our ground is crappy here, so I'm kinda stuck with raised beds. Having a tough time getting good soil mix from bagged material. I'm going to order 4 yards of good stuff next week I think.
    Common sense is so rare these days, it should be re-classified as a super power.

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    We expanded our raised bed this year. It was 8X8, now it is 16X16. Got some chickens in it right now, they are fertilizing it for me.
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    Here in FL the soil is very sandy and nutrient deficient so we're in the process of the very thing.



    I'm making them out of landscape timbers & PT fence pickets. Very inexpensive lumber. Dimesions are roughly 2'x2'x4'. There's a layer of rock in the bottom, lined with landscape cloth and filled with a combination of compost and Miracle Grow veggy soil. This one is full of beefsteak 'maters.

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    DH did raised beds last year got a great crop of tomatoes, squash and cukes. He didn't do too much planting last year, this year he's planning on filling all 6 boxes When he built the boxes he put dampened newspapers in the bottom before he put in the soil to help keep any weeds out from beneath them and this winter he cleared out the boxes and put clear plastic over some of them ( an experiment) to try and keep out the weeds when spring came.Unfortunately with the winter we had, the plastic sheeting didn't hold up, we think it wasn't thick or strong enough. We'll have to try a different mil this year. We thought about putting chicken wire also in the beds under the newspapers but DH didn't do that, just the newsprint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katrina View Post
    DH did raised beds last year got a great crop of tomatoes, squash and cukes. He didn't do too much planting last year, this year he's planning on filling all 6 boxes When he built the boxes he put dampened newspapers in the bottom before he put in the soil to help keep any weeds out from beneath them and this winter he cleared out the boxes and put clear plastic over some of them ( an experiment) to try and keep out the weeds when spring came.Unfortunately with the winter we had, the plastic sheeting didn't hold up, we think it wasn't thick or strong enough. We'll have to try a different mil this year. We thought about putting chicken wire also in the beds under the newspapers but DH didn't do that, just the newsprint.
    Black plastic works better and it warms your soil quicker for Spring. Maybe try it next year?

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    30 days later & I've finished the second planter box.


    This one is planted with San Marzano. Bell peppers are doing great in the garden box further down... had intended on planting a bit of corn this year but we missed our window.


    The Beefsteaks are doing well.


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    Lookin good Jeeper!

    I had my corn out and it was starting get to come up and the dam crows pulled every bit of it up. I haven't had time to pop them yet but I see some dead crows before very long.

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    Here is my raised garden.

    Squash, zucchini, and peppers.



    Onions, and carrots.



    Watermelon (3 different kinds) cantaloupe, and a tomatillo that came up from last years planting.

    "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson

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    Claims to have NEVER worn pink. Likely story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FL-Jeeper View Post
    Here in FL the soil is very sandy and nutrient deficient so we're in the process of the very thing.



    I'm making them out of landscape timbers & PT fence pickets. Very inexpensive lumber. Dimesions are roughly 2'x2'x4'. There's a layer of rock in the bottom, lined with landscape cloth and filled with a combination of compost and Miracle Grow veggy soil. This one is full of beefsteak 'maters.
    I would be leery of using the red mulch near gardens used for food production... Depending on what type of process the manufacturer uses to dye it, It could contain Heavy metal preservatives and/or arsenic or Iron Oxides... It generally isn't recommended to use colored mulch near food crops...
    It is, of course, obvious that speed, or height of fall, is not in itself injurious ... but a high rate of change of velocity, such as occurs after a 10 story fall onto concrete, is another matter.

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