How To Grow An Above Ground Vegetable Garden
Some are simply heaps of soil but most raised beds are wide boxes that essentially create a large container of soil six to 12 inches deep.
How to grow an above ground vegetable garden. Sprinkle 1 1 2 pounds of 5 10 10 fertilizer over every 50 square feet of soil. An in ground garden to hold a bed of shade loving flowers differs from one designed to grow fresh vegetables. 2 evaluate the available space in your yard. In early spring grow lettuce greens such as arugula peas radishes carrots and broccoli.
Raised garden bed tables are easy to tend and take up very little space making them perfect for the patio or deck. If you plan to grow peas pole beans cucumbers tomatoes or other vining plants sketch in trellises or cages to support them. Grow space hungry vining crops such as tomatoes pole beans peas squash melons cukes and so on straight up supported by. Look for an area that is slightly raised.
After you ve harvested your cool weather crops plant hot weather favorites such as tomatoes peppers eggplant and herbs. You can also broadcast seeds over the surface of the raised bed. Once the seeds germinate thin to one seedling per hole. Secure with a staple run push pin or screw.
Table garden design involves using a raised box bed and elevating it to accommodate a chair underneath. Run string horizontally and vertically across the garden box to create a grid. Many vegetable gardeners today use raised beds which lift the plants and their roots above ground level. In fall you can harvest potatoes cabbage and kale.
Narelle kelvin 1 146 views 1 56 how to build a raised garden bed for under 15. How to build an above ground vegetable garden part 2 duration. It may be above ground in a raised garden bed. Plant lettuce by poking holes in the soil with your finger at 6 intervals and sprinkle a few seeds into each hole.
If you plant carrots apply fine textured potting soil over the top of the seeds. No matter how small your garden you can grow more by going vertical. Based on the size of your garden add more bottles if needed.