It's time to plan your spring veggie garden, but before you start planting, get your raised beds and containers ready for a new season — and check out plant events for March.

If you want to grow beans, and your raised beds are taller than the common 10- to 12-inch height, choose bush beans instead of tall pole beans, or else you might need a ladder to pick them.

Let’s start with some clarity on what a raised bed is. Technically, you can add just a few inches of additional soil added to a ground-level garden bed, and voila: it’s a raised bed.But when ...

Aside from plant root depth, it is also important to consider your budget and how you want to use your garden. Taller raised beds are typically more expensive than shorter ones, but they tend to ...

Essentially, a raised garden bed is any circular or four-sided structure with an open (or draining) bottom that you fill with the soil of your choice and use as the home base for your plants.

This simple gadget takes the guesswork out of keeping my raised garden beds perfectly watered all season long.

While raised beds are great, they’re not the only way to heighten your garden experience. Gardening in straw bales can also work. “It’s like a raised bed of sorts.

Raised garden beds come with plenty of benefits. For example, they can be a great DIY project if you've got an old headboard ...

Plants that don’t work in raised beds. You can grow practically anything in a raised bed, gardening experts say, but because they provide limited space, it makes sense to grow larger, sprawling ...

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