The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening: All the know-how you need to build and grow a raised bed garden (Volume 3) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 3) by CaliKim

Setting up your first raised bed garden? With help from YouTube gardening star CaliKim, you’ll soon be growing your own fresh, organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers like a pro. Whether your yard is big or small, raised beds are the perfect fit. They allow you to create a controlled growing environment, filled with fertile soil, where plants thrive. Raised beds help gardeners overcome rocky or less-than-ideal soils, there’s little to no weeding involved, and they can be as large or as petite as you’d like. You can even use an elevated or mobile raised bed if the only sunny space you have to grow is on a patio, deck, or driveway. In The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening, you’ll learn how to select the best raised bed for your space, what to fill it with, and tips for staking and trellising plants to save space and improve yields. Additional advice found inside includes: DIY plans for building quick-and-simple beds Info on the best soil mixes for filling raised beds How to mulch, water, and fertilize your new garden Read more

From the Publisher An essential beginner’s guide to setting up, planning, and planting your first raised bed garden. Salad station raised beds can be grown any time of the year. Grow your salad station in any size of raised bed you wish, below is the plan for a raised bed that is 4 feet × 4 feet (1.2 × 1.2 m). A concrete block raised bed would work great for a salad station—with extra planting space in the hollow block centers allowing you to grow more gardenfresh goodness to harvest, eat, and share. By far the biggest investment you’ll make when starting a raised bed garden is in the soil. Inexpensive soil often has few nutrients and instead contains lots of fillers and ingredients that aren’t the best or the safest in which to grow your veggies. Choosing the right soil will have a huge impact on how much food you’ll grow (or won’t grow) in your raised beds. This waist-high raised bed design is perfect for a gardener who wants convenience and to minimize back strain from bending over. This is also a fun DIY project to do with your kiddos as it can be easily customized to kid height by making the legs shorter. Give your little gardeners ownership of their raised garden by encouraging them to decorate the outside with their own flair and help them plant kid-friendly veggies.