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Creating Simple and Inexpensive Raised Beds for Small Seed Vegetable Crops
Although we wouldn’t trade our low-cost, hassle-free raised row gardening method for anything – (see: Growing with Simple Raised Rows) I have to admit that for a few select crops, using a couple of simple contained raised beds can make a lot of sense. Raised beds are the perfect choice for crops that require planting and harvesting smaller seed crops like lettuce, carrots, radishes, onions,and kale. Why? Crops with small seeds and seedlings require a loose and pulverized soil for easy planting and germinating – and it can certainly be more difficult to weed and thin these tiny crops as they grow in open raised rows. The raised sides of an edged bed allow you to easily add in compost and soil to make a great planting bed and provide additional protection from weed seeds blowing in and germinating. That is exactly why we added a few raised beds to our garden this year – creating them from a few inexpensive 2 x 6″ untreated pine lumber boards. Not only are they simple and inexpensive to build – they can easily be installed into our existing raised rows each season, and then lifted back out in the fall to replant with a cover crop just like our other [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2015/04/24/creating-simple-and-inexpensive-raised-beds-for-small-seed-vegetable-crops/
