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My grandpa hooked me on gardening early; some of my oldest memories are planting peas and digging potatoes in his huge garden. When I lived in Seattle, I turned my entire yard into a food factory—building raised garden beds from scratch and planting tomatoes, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and zucchini (so, so much zucchini), along with other summer and winter squashes. | My grandpa hooked me on gardening early; some of my oldest memories are planting peas and digging potatoes in his huge garden. When I lived in Seattle, I turned my entire yard into a food factory—building raised garden beds from scratch and planting tomatoes, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and zucchini (so, so much zucchini), along with other summer and winter squashes. | ||
The soil in my yard here in Florida is mostly sand, though, and prone to seawater inundation, so I turned to the Keter Splendor Raised Garden Bed to continue my gardening adventures after a cross-country move. The difference between the Keter Splendor and the garden beds I made myself is night and day, both in terms of how much effort it took to put them together and how easy they are to maintain. | The soil in my yard here in Florida is mostly sand, though, and prone to seawater inundation, so I turned to the Keter Splendor Raised Garden Bed to continue my gardening adventures after a cross-country move. The difference between the Keter Splendor and the garden beds I made myself is night and day, both in terms of how much effort it took to put them together and how easy they are to maintain. | ||
=====The Complete Guide to Raised Beds===== | |||
[https://www.gardenary.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-raised-beds by Nicole Burke 4/4/25 GARDENARY] | |||
As the cost of lumber continues to increase, I get more and more questions about whether raised beds are necessary for a healthy and productive kitchen garden. The extra expense—for the bed materials and then all that soil to fill each one—of a raised bed versus in-ground gardens might seem like, well... a waste. | |||
I get it. But after trying (unsuccessfully) to garden in the ground, I converted to growing most of my edible plants in raised beds and using raised beds in all of my kitchen garden designs for clients. | |||
