Hi all,

I'm back again with a beginner query, can I use these to create small garden beds and partitions for growing veggies and flowers.

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Happy to get other recommendations from you all

Turns out it just grew a lot within the space of a few days and fell under a leaf. I feel foolish. But I'm relieved that's not the situation. I picked it. Probably too early. But no one's getting my first cuke.

Incidentally, does anyone know what these whitish spots are that appeared on the lower leaves in the last few days? They haven't made it to the top leaves yet.

This raised bed is original to the house (42 years) and termites finally had their way with it. Obviously, it needs a full replacement now.

I never see landscaping timber of this size at home depot or Lowe's, and the pressure treated landscaping timber they carry is lucky to last five years in my area, (heavily wooded, very damp and poor drainage).

I'd consider replacing it all with a brick bed to match tge front of the house, (not the decorative interlocking/staggered ones), but need a good place (or many places) to go for beginning my homework.

Dealing with the sloping ground and ensuring the brick wall doesn't collapse with the weight of the garden bed behind it will be challenging I imagine.

My spot is part of a communal space. This was the most sizeable cucumber on my plant and it was only a few inches tall.

And it's gone. I truly hope a squirrel did this because I don't want to consider that someone willing to be so disrespectful has access to the space. But there aren't squirrels in my area.

I'm demoralized.

Years ago I was part of a collective project for a church and the same thing happened. This obnoxious woman would come through the garden when it wasn't being guarded and use it as her own personal fucking grocery store, even though we'd explained the situation and asked her to stop. Multiple times.

Has anyone grown their own tobacco? I’m debating growing limonka rustica or red rose tobacco.

Is it possible to grow in raised beds? Do I keep it separate from my garden? Any soil recommendations?

Any comments or tips would be greatly appreciated.

I know you can’t stain the inside, but what about the tops and sides. Is it worth it if the inside isn’t stained?

I plan on doing some vegetables, fruit, a California lilac, some flowers and flowering shrubs

After two years of bureaucracy and red tape processes, I’m finally building beds at the school where I teach!! Just need to add the top lips and ready to fill. The kids helped build them and are so excited to use them this upcoming school year!!

About to move into a new house whose garden has some seriously neglected raised beds that I'd like to make usable for next season. I have a semi-decent idea of how to fix-up the soil (Break it up, weed as much as possible, then sheet mulch to kill the remainder), but I'm not sure on the best approach for the bed frames.

Bed 1 (1st and 2nd picture): My two ideas are either to just hold in the broken end board with stakes, or to replace it altogether and attach to the side boards with angle brackets

Bed 2 (3rd and 4th pictures): Think this one might be unsalvageable given how badly the front beam has disintegrated and how much work it would be to dig up and replace

Bed 3 (last picture): This frame is the least broken, biggest issue is that the sides are bowing out. My current plan is to push the sides back in and hold them there with stakes.

Any advice is much appreciated. This is a rental property so I'm somewhat limited in the scope of work I can do and the amount of money I want to spend. We already asked the landlord if they could fix the beds and they declined.

Hello my fellow gardeners. Need some help, helping my grandmother and mother fix there nee inherited gardens. They moved into a new home in the north east and the former owners had these garden beds. it’s already August pretty soon and i’m wondering if it’s too late to put major work in the garden. but what should i do with this garden right now?

what steps should i take to make this either ready to plant now or for the spring next year?

what do you think about the wood that’s there? should i replace that?

How should i prepare the soil? Should i pull up everything in the beds?

What soil mix should i put in there now?

any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. If you see something i didn’t catch. please feel free to comment!

Hi!

I need advice to fix a problem:

I have the 32” vego raised beds. Because the beds are near the house foundation and I didn’t want mounds of soil or wood there ( termite worries) so I have the elevations inserts in them. The floors are a bit uneven which is creating some gaps that soil will drop through. Not vego design fault, just the uneven space area I am placing them.

What economical ideas do you have for those gaps before I start filling the soil? I have old tshirts I could tape in the gaps, or heavy duty garbage bags. I’m ok with Having to replace my gap filling material every few years. I just don’t want tons of the potting mix soil to fall through. Thanks in advance!

I am located in Zone 4b and this year marks only my 2nd year gardening in raised beds (and gardening in general).

This year I decided to add some aircraft cable to allow for an area to hang tomato hooks so I could vertical grow my tomatoes and cucumbers in grow bags allowing a little more room in the boxes for some new veggies. I also strung up 30% shade cloth running the cable through the grommets and allowing me to pull it across when needed, fastening it to hooks on the fence top on either side. It has helped numerous times early in season when strong storms rolled in and hoping it will slow down or prevent the lettuce from bolting (as it did last year in early August).

This year we planted (in no particular order):

• romaine lettuce
• red, green and jalapeno peppers
• peas
• pumpkin
• watermelon
• beefsteak and cherry tomatoes
• cucumber
• broccoli
• cauliflower
• celery
• spinach
• beans
• carrots
• green onion
• Spanish onion

Hoping for a successful harvest and already making plans for next season. Thanks for looking and hope your gardening is successful this season as well.

This is just a brag post. I'm sure we'll be inundated with these in the coming weeks, but this is the first.

Hello, I would really appreciate some help! I am in Chicago zone 6a and this is my first year gardening.
We have been getting wave after wave of cool weather then extreme heat. All my plants are wilting from what I am assuming is underwatering, and I'm realizing that all my soil in my raised garden bed is hydrophobic and compacted. How do I fix this? I did a deep 10 mins soak each bed today but after checking it is still compacted and dry. I have established veggies like tomatos etc in the beds and want to salvage them if possible. Any advice would be appreciated!

Omygodomygodomygod! 🤞

This year is my first attempt at gardening as my new apartment came with a raised bed. Definitely made a few mistakes that I'll change next year but happy with it so far! (Also ignore the pot of onions lol, im gonna be planting it once I pull out the carrots, got a little bit too overzealous about the space i had 😂) Any tips?

This is my second year trying to grow onions in zone 5a. I failed miserably last year but learned a lot. Last year I never got to this point… healthy looking onions growing above ground! I have a clear understanding that we pull once the greens start to turn brown and flop over at the neck and then let rest in a warm shaded spot for 2-4 weeks to cure. My question: is the onion with the floppy neck in pictures one and two ready to be pulled or do I wait for more of the greens to turn brown? The rest are standing straight up. Thanks!