How high should a raised garden bed be?
Image by Linda N.
June 2003. Mark helped me construct this raised bed and the others in the background in the lot east of our garage. We had to fence it to keep the rabbits from eating our veggie plants. The bindweed flourished in this area.
Question by Shivers: How high should a raised garden bed be?
My front yard is pretty much always water-logged and nothing(other than grass) grows well in it, so I was thinking of making a raised garden bed. Roughly how high should I make it and would I still need to remove the grass growing under it?
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3 Responses to How high should a raised garden bed be?
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No need to remove the grass. Just cover the grass with used newspaper – several layers (so it dies rather than taking over the garden). Then cover the newspaper with approx. 12 inches of compost+soil, or just plain top-soil. Usually people use wood or concrete blocks to “frame” the raised bed. Just don’t use treated wood (treated with chemicals to suppress pests and fungi), or those chemicals will leach into your crops (assuming that you are growing food?).
Rowdy McFarlane
December 12, 2011 at 3:31 am
Hey buddy got your answer No do not remove the grass way to much work Make the raised up beds at least fourteen feet high you can use a good ladder to get up to do a little weeding if you want or if your house is a two story just climb out the window
Bernard
December 12, 2011 at 4:11 am
There is no fast and set rule for the height of a raised bed. You could use 1 x 6 inch boards all the way around it if you wanted to, or just mound it up 2 feet high. Actually there’s an easier way to grow an incredible garden without the traditional hassels like weeding, fertalizing, garden pests, compost, etc… check the link in Source below for more info.
Ricardo Westpack
December 12, 2011 at 4:20 am