Introduction to Raised Garden Beds

Series Summary

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life.

So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free beginner gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and fertilizing of your background garden. Learn how to put the right plant in the right spot, how deep to dig the hole and bury the roots, how to water properly, using a stake for plant stem support, what garden tools and equipment to use, and more. Our expert horticulturalist will give you a general course in creating the right environment for your new plants to flourish. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

Video Transcript

"A raised bed garden is a way of containing your soil and the environment for your plant. Raised beds can be made out of numerous things so today we're going to be using a bath tub. They can be build out of concrete, bricks, wood, cross ties I've seen them build out of old tires. Just anything that is recyclable that will hold the material and provide for drainage and one of the reasons you use a raised bed is so that you can tailor the soil and provide for the roots to develop in and then have drainage so you can get access water away from it. Raised beds are the ideal situation because of the way they can be constructed to tailor to the plants that are going to be grown in them. It needs to be larger enough to contain the roots system deep enough to contain the root system but also large enough to contain the plant. You can't plant oak tree in a one gallon bucket."