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    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening: Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening
    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening: Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening
    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening: Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening
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    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening: Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening

    By Dueep Jyot Singh and John Davidson

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    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening
    Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    Tips and techniques for Raised Bed Gardening
    The Benefits of Raised Bed Gardening
    Raised Beds as Spiritual Therapy
    Conserving water in raised beds.
    Preventing Soil Erosion
    Keyhole gardens
    How to Construct a Raised Garden
    Choosing the Right Soil
    Rooting zone
    Making Raised Beds From Timber
    Support for the outer wall.
    Watering your raised beds
    How to check soil drainage In Your Garden
    Making a Kitchen Garden in Raised Beds
    How to Make a Compost Heap
    How to Make Leaf Compost
    Organic manure for Making Compost
    Making a Worm Farm
    Herbal Plants in Your Raised Garden
    Staggered Harvests
    Lasagna Gardening
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Introduction
    The first time I came across an example of raised bed gardening, my reaction was, that is an extremely sensible way of gardening, you do not have to stoop down to ground level. I was seeing these raised garden beds in a friend’s home. She loved gardening. She also had back trouble. So crouching down in front of her beloved flower and vegetable as well as herbal garden in order to de-weed them was purgatory to her.
    And then her handy do-it-yourself practical husband said, “Why don’t we raise the crops and plants in beds which are waist high?” And he immediately set about building 4 feet wide beds, in square shaped blocks with wood. The soil was raised above ground level, and placed in that wooden frame. The results were amazing.
    It was only 10 years later that I found out that raised bed gardening was being practiced extensively all over the world. Avid gardeners were making bed frames out of concrete, rock, and even wood. They made the containers to their own particular requirements, with dimensions ranging from 1.0 m to 2 m, depending on the space they had.
    Gardening in containers is all very well, but raised gardening eliminates the use of pots.
    And best of all, as my friend told me, “I do the gardening on my raised bed. Himself –(her enthusiastic DIY gardener husband) plans to plant plants which love the shade under the raised beds. In that way, we are utilizing every inch of the soil, as well as lots of space above ground level. What a sensible way to make gardens in limited spaces.”
    She has the right of it. And this is possibly the reason why so many people want to know all about raised bed gardening in rich organic compost laden soil.
    So as you are one of them, let us start with how we can utilize every square inch of our land, economically and beneficially, by making raised beds, how to make them, how to take care of them and how to enjoy their harvest.
    I definitely advocate natural methods for gardening, so I am going to tell you about the best organic and natural gardening practices, which people all over the world have been using for centuries. Take advantage of our technology in other aspects of gardening like watering, etc., but still use the old natural methods for fertilizing the soil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD-Biz Corp Publishing
    Release dateJul 30, 2014
    ISBN9781310551970
    A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening: Gardening Tips and Techniques on Organic Raised Bed Gardening

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      A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening - Dueep Jyot Singh

      A Beginner’s Guide to

      Raised Bed Gardening

      Gardening Tips and Techniques on

      Organic Raised Bed Gardening

      Healthy Gardening Series

      Dueep J Singh and John Davidson

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Tips and techniques for raised bed gardening

      The Benefits of Raised Bed Gardening

      Raised Beds as Spiritual Therapy

      Conserving water in raised beds.

      Preventing Soil Erosion

      Keyhole gardens

      How to Construct a Raised Garden

      Choosing the Right Soil

      Rooting zone

      Making Raised Beds from Timber.

      Support for the outer wall.

      Watering your raised beds

      How to check soil drainage In Your Garden

      Making a Kitchen Garden in Raised Beds

      How to Make a Compost Heap

      How to Make Leaf Compost

      Organic manure for Making Compost

      Making a

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