By the time spring arrives, the soil in your raised bed will have settled, and you’ll be ready to plant. Keep it simple at first and then expand as you become comfortable with the crops that grow well ...

making it unsuitable for bed construction for food crops. For this reason, we never recommend that gardeners utilize scavenged or repurposed lumber for raised-bed construction. Likewise ...

or bubble wrap to stop extreme winter colds from getting in the sides of the raised bed and damaging plant roots. If you want to avoid soil sitting empty for long periods, sowing cover crops is a ...