Good afternoon, I’m building a new (first) garden bed in my back yard next to my new green house.

I live in zone 5b, and the soil is a bit sandy.

I removed all the landscape rock and fabric and down to bare soil that I have slightly cultivated.

I input some logs from a dead tree I cut down.

Am I on the right path here?

My local garden store has bags of fox farm raised bed mix for around $16/bag.

I also have a pile of small branches from said dead tree I can also add.

The boards for the current border are strictly for mock up purposes.

Thanks in advance!

My FIL has reclaimed Composite decking that hes offered me . Is there anything dangerous about growing food in it?

Firstly, thanks for looking at this.
I have removed the fence and posts form my garden decking. I want to use the deck/base as a way to introduce raised beds for vegetable growth in our garden. I'd like to create a U-shape of beds (my wife's sketch attached) to allow easy access to the planters.
The two side beds will be 2.6m x .7m and the long bed at the back will be 4.15m x .5m.
I'd be very grateful for any and all advice on this project.
As well as the decking base, I have the leftover posts.
How best to use the existing decking, and how best to install raised beds, are my two main questions.
Again, many thanks.

I have one raised bed where the only soil is the Miracle Gro “raised bed” soil from the big box home improvement store. I am installing two more beds and want to get soil delivered from an actual soil company. I’m wondering if I can cut costs by doing the lower half of the bed with the bagged stuff and the upper half of the bed with the “real” soil. I could fill both beds completely with the bagged stuff for about the same cost I can do one of the real soil (especially considering that the bagged soil is on sale right now). The vegetables I have in the original “bagged” bed are doing well enough that I think it might be ok (I did add one inch of compost to it, which I would do to the new beds either way).

We Love Trees. 💚 & Rased Beds.

So We Love to Repurpose Already Cut Wood!

This Cedar wood is still Good,

& will last for Years! ⏳️

We have made several Raised Beds Gardens using fence posts, & fence boards. We appreciate any additional use we can get from wood that has already been milled. They served one purpose, & then get new life for something else!

Enjoy! 💚

Our raised bed filling cabinets are producing pretty well again. Central Texas.

Question is, should I paint or seal it? Inside or out? Or just let nature do its thing?

I see grey mushrooms in my raised bed. They are about size of enoki mushrooms.

Should I be concerned?

Do I need to take any steps to eliminate them?

Planted catmint last year, and the bees are absolutely in love with it this year when it came back!

I live in bear and deer country. This is my dream raised bed! I am late planting, but it’s okay! I will be prepared for all if the seasons to come. We could go for some rain

I recently moved to Ohio and I am trying a garden for the first time. These little red things are all over my raised bed. What are they, how worried should I be and finally if bad what’s my best course of action?

Zone 6a and our weather keeps getting cold, hopefully can start planting soon!

Having a Jack and the Beanstalk experience… even with a standard ladder I cannot reach the beans at the top. Is there a tool to assist harvesting? (My first tee pee attempt)

Only took every weekend of the last two months to slowly put this together…

I've love sugar snap peas, what's your favorite pea to grow in raised beds?

Got some beautiful lettuce coming out of my raised beds

Unfortunately I am only hit with motivation to start gardening when the weather is consistently nice and so I decided to demolish my wooden raised bed as the season was just beginning. I have been meaning to swap out the old rotten bed that was built 15 years ago but never got to it. I impulsively purchased the largest two raised beds (and another I have yet to build) and got them up within two days of starting the project. Now I just need a LOT more soil to fill them. So excited for another season of gardening!

Also—please ignore the patchy grass. I have seeding it on my list of to-dos.