...Well, not quite. But it's time to set up the raised bed and start filling it with dirt and mixing it up! My lovely mother-in-law got me two 4x4 cedar raised garden beds for my birthday I can't wait to see what we can grow this year. I have tried to start plants from seeds and it hasn't worked out in the past. There just is not enough sun in the apartment and cats that love to eat anything green and growing. Perhaps when we get a house we can follow Kristin's tips on seed sowing!
I followed instructions on Gardeners.com and their raised bed plans, they're interactive beds that you can customize what kind of bed you have and add plants.
Doesn't that bed look amazing?! That is a 3x6 bed with lots of different veggies. Using their plan as a guide I made this plan.
These are the veggies we buy most at the grocery store so I know we will eat them if they do well. The next step now is to grab the dirt, my mother-in-law suggested we get a mixture of garden soil, peat moss and organic compost. Using this calculator it says I need 10 cubic feet of total soil. The same site suggests:
"For most situations, we recommend these proportions:
- 60 percent topsoil
- 30 percent compost
- 10 percent soilless growing mix that contains peat moss, perlite and/or vermiculite, such as Transplant Mix or Container Mix"
I plan on consulting with my MIL to see what she thinks about my plan, it seems like a lot of plants for just a 4x4 square but the website said that most only need a 1ft square.
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