Doing this now in Tutorial: Easy-Peasy Raised Beds

By fiwit
October 28, 2013

When I first moved into my house, I diligently dug flower beds by de-turfing the 20-year-old Zoysia grass and tilling up the red Georgia clay. Then one day I realized I could simply build raised beds, and it cut my bed-creation time in half. I can now build an 8ft by 16ft raised bed in about a day, and here's how I do it:

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LiriopePisces

Nov 2, 2013 2:48 PM CST

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Name: Mariah McNail
Farmington, MO (Zone 6a)

I just started my own 4 x 4 beds (2 of them) and am doing this now. Want to plant them this spring. Inspired by Dave's article and Ruth Stout's work.

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fiwit

Nov 2, 2013 4:49 PM CST

Name: Mary
My little patch of paradise (Zone 7b)
Gardening dilettante, that's me!

Brilliant! Good luck!

Northwest Georgia Daylily Society
I'm going to retire and live off of my savings. Not sure what I'll do that second week.
My yard marches to the beat of a bohemian drummer...

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virginiarose

Nov 2, 2013 4:56 PM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29

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