What is Raised Bed Gardening?
Video Transcript What is Raised Bed Gardening? I’m Doug Smiddy of Smiddy’s Gardening Services here on behalf of expertvillage.com and welcome to my garden. Today we’re here to talk about low maintenance gardening. Okay, so let’s talk about raised bed gardens. Like I said before my soil here it’s not so hot so I had to improvise 12 inch lumber, you want to over do it on your depth a little as oppose to under doing it. You want to give enough room for all your roots to grow out especially if you’re going to grow out root prop like carrots or beets or something like that. So that’s why I used a 12 inch board on here. Again, think of your size of your garden and keep it small and manageable. Now you may ask what do I put in there? Well you want to put in some good soil. A lot of people go out and they’ll have someone truck in some topsoil. Be very careful when you do that and do your research because not all topsoils is good topsoil. There can be what people call topsoil, it’s really mostl
