Raised garden beds

[Popcorn]

Thanks again!....appreciate the information!

I have a wood stove in my garage and all my ashes from there go to the beds the charred wood from my smoker and grill also.
Also add red worms! Just pick up some around the place and they will multiply pretty quick.

 

[tellico4x4]

 

[Popcorn]

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Especially love the water stations!

 

[Chiflyguy]

Especially love the water stations!

Yeah, no kidding.
Gonna do that with my trees

 

[tellico4x4]

I dig my tomato plant holes with post hole diggers. The PVC goes in before I add any dirt. Believe it encourages the roots to drive deeper. Be sure & cut ends that go in ground on angle as it seems to help them drain.

 

[woodyard]

Trying my first raised beds with some strawberries this year.

 

[DaveB]

There are some fantastic gardens here.

Great ideas, execution, and results.

I got to get real busy.

 

[DayDay]

Decided to do raised vegetable garden beds. I had lumber left over from another project went and bought enough straight stock roof metal color to match our roof, shutters and doors. Going to build 3 8ftLx4ftWx24ftD raised beds. Any you guys do raised beds for vegetables?

Thanks for the info and picts. Hope to get mine built this week and ready to plant. Building 3 4x8x2 to start for this year.

Glad you settled on 2 foot depth; I thought 24 feet was a bit ambitious.

 

[Popcorn]

Trying my first raised beds with some strawberries this year.View attachment 174977

You're gonna like that a lot!
I built 200 sq ft of strawberry beds and 200 sq ft of asparagus beds for my brother in law. They love 'em and they are really productive

 

[DaveB]

Popcorn--You use the black plastic sheeting on your strawberries?? I have always skipped that stuff but a buddy tells me thats what the pros use. Personally, I think it is just to maximize mechanical harvesting and to control water loss.

You have a favorite variety or three?

 

[DeerCamp]

Decided to do raised vegetable garden beds. I had lumber left over from another project went and bought enough straight stock roof metal color to match our roof, shutters and doors. Going to build 3 8ftLx4ftWx24ftD raised beds. Any you guys do raised beds for vegetables?

Some plants will root well past your garden bed/ground boundary. Can help to till the ground under the bed soil, or even add some conditioner to it.

 

[Popcorn]

Popcorn--You use the black plastic sheeting on your strawberries?? I have always skipped that stuff but a buddy tells me thats what the pros use. Personally, I think it is just to maximize mechanical harvesting and to control water loss.

You have a favorite variety or three?

Arkansas Beauty/ aka Tennessee Beauty is best all around as far as I'm concerned.
I just bed them in wheat straw every winter.

 

[Popcorn]

Just finished building this for one of the places I oversee out on lake Barkley.
Had a 12 inch lattice crown built for it but they don't like lattice so I just capped the wall. This has a stainless wire mesh barrier in the ground around it to keep out rodents and the snakes that eat them. It's scary how fast dollar's evaporate when building with western cedar and landscape retaining blocks.
Had to create a level spot for it.

 

[PWoody]

Do you guys mulch tomato plants in your raised beds? If so, what mulch do you use?

 

[Popcorn]

Do you guys mulch tomato plants in your raised beds? If so, what mulch do you use?

Wheat straw is my favorite, peat moss works pretty good also.
May try some brown paper like groceries sack this year

 

[Forvols]

For layering the beds and mulching around plants Im using pine straw bales (pine neddles), pretty cheap at lowes and no weed seed in the bales. The dried needles dont make soil acidic either.

 

[UT-longbeard]

 

[JCDEERMAN]

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Just finished building this for one of the places I oversee out on lake Barkley.
Had a 12 inch lattice crown built for it but they don't like lattice so I just capped the wall. This has a stainless wire mesh barrier in the ground around it to keep out rodents and the snakes that eat them. It's scary how fast dollar's evaporate when building with western cedar and landscape retaining blocks.
Had to create a level spot for it.

That is awesome and what a view!!!

 

[Popcorn]

That is awesome and what a view!!!

Thanks!
It's hard to stay focused when working out there!

 

[Forvols]

How much spacing do you give tomatoes in a raised bed garden, my beds are 4x8ft?