How should i prepare the soil for a vegetable garden?
It depends on the size of the raised bed. If it’s going to be a large one you might consider having some topsoil delivered, or having a home/garden store deliver soil in bags-they weigh a lot! Get bagged manure, some peat moss, and add it into the mix. Plant your vegetables (at this late date, depending on where you live and what you want to grow) you’d probably do best with purchased plants. Add a fertilizer like 12-12-12 balanced, or use Miracle Gro. Next year, you can skip most of the fertilizer by putting compost materials in your raised bed-from the end of gardening season put these materials on the raised bed : shredded leaves, kitchen stuff like coffee ground, lettuce, whatever you trim from fruits and veggies, egg shells, shredded newspaper, cardboard, and maybe some more soil-the idea is to enrich the soil without using chemicals, healthier, cheaper, and better all the way around. The first year will be a challenge, but read up on it, and you should really have a good garden.
