This is where you need to think before you build your raised beds on how deep to make them. A three meters deep bed takes six times the soil mix than needed for a 6-inch deep bed so fill your schedule to get right at the start. I’m going to discuss what I did when I sent my first High Density Gardening raised bed up.
My beds are 6 inches deep and I am amazed at what I grow, but they are on top of an old lawn. I would think about a deeper bed than this if you are building on a concrete square foot garden base.
If your methodology, commands one third peat, vermiculite and third third home-made compost. If you want to be organic, do not use peat, although it is 100% organic is not a sustainable product. The other problem you will have to first start up your raised bed garden is that you probably do not have home-made compost. Finally, a rock made of vermiculite is heated to high temperatures extend into the state we all know. I think this is organic, but the use of high temperatures over 1000 Celsius is not very environmentally friendly friendly.
What I did when I built my first raised bed in my garden High Density plot was a mix of the following ingredients to create. Topsoil, peat, coconut and well-rotted horse manure. I mixed in about equal amounts of top soil each.
The fourth floor, only I had lying around from previous projects gardening, but I also bought a few bags from a local garden center to the top of the raised bed to finish. But do not make the same mistake I made. My father decided he would help me by brining some topsoil. He lives about 20 miles from me and what happened is that I ended up with weeds in my raised bed, which does not grow around here. I bought the topsoil in bags was sterilized so that no weeds there.
The I used was old peat bog that I had used in the greenhouse to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in. I know I should not use this year and I tried organic growing medium, but I’m not as impressed as with peat. I only use peat in setting up the raised bed vegetable gardens, turf and this I had used in the greenhouse to grow tomatoes and cucumbers inside I have my toms and cucumbers grown in organic growing medium and reuse it in the garden as well.
The I used coconut is great stuff and is made from the waste product during harvesting coconuts. It is 100% organic and is completely sustainable. I buy it in compressed blocks and re-hydrate it. The coconut also has a large water holding capacity and this helps in your well-rotted horse manure increased beds.
I used in the bottom of the bed. This was put down in a thin layer and then the other ingredients added on top and I mix it all together as best as possible, while trying not to horse manure in the bottom of the bed.
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Every time I am now a new crop mix some of my homemade compost in the soil mix those two things. The first is that it is a source of food for the plants and add the second is that the makeup to settle the soil mix and soil mixture plants.
By lost in using a soil mix like this it is very light and very brittle and easy to operate. Plant roots can easily downward to grow in your soil moisture to the roots easily and added coconut helps retain moisture in the soil mix and the final thing is that it is very easy for weeds to pull, because they do not have a good hold in the light soil mix at a young age. If your soil mix for your raised beds make gardening much right to the fun and easy and your plants will be healthier for it.
One last point is to get your homemade compost pile started if you need to use it in the future to add to your soil mix. You can download a worksheet on how to build a hotbox composting bin from the High Density Gardening website. L 1
Ric Wiley is an internet writer and gardener. His website on High Density Gardening can be found on and his latest e-book is High Density Gardening.
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