Becoming a home gardener with raised beds is like being the chef of your own backyard buffet, and using the right soil (and the right amount of soil) is just as important as buying the right ...

If you want to plant the healthiest raised garden bed around, you need to know these key tips when it comes to the quality of your garden bed's soil.

Building a raised garden bed is not complicated at all; it’s basically just an oversized box filled with soil. The sides can be made of anything that is at hand.

Tilled native soil improved with compost, rotted manure, mushroom soil, rotted leaves and/or similar organic matter is excellent for raised-bed vegetable-gardening. No need to buy expensive ...

Gardening in 3 dimensions. The size of a raised bed can vary widely, Wied said. “Your raised beds can be as small as 3-by-3 (feet) or as large a 20-by-4.

The best plants for raised garden beds include tomato, eggplant, pepper and kale. ... If the bottom of your raised bed touches native soil, keep the bed away from trees.

Foam noodles have plenty of uses outside of the pool. Here are our five favorite ways to use them in the garden.

All the soil has raised the level and this is the window where I plant my seasonal flowers. ... Soil in raised beds. Published: Aug. 07, 2007, 2:30 a.m. By ...

Good old-fashioned leaf mulch on your garden beds will protect your soil from winter's ravages as well. Just rake those leaves up and put them on the beds you plan on planting in the spring.