To fill a raised garden bed you ll need enough soil to fill the bed and some organic compost.
Filling raised vegetable garden beds.
If you can t use native soil purchase a nutrient rich mixture from your local gardening store.
Just how the roots.
Filling raised beds with compost.
Filling your raised garden bed.
In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.
These steps can be used whether you have an existing raised bed or you are filling up a new empty raised bed.
Build a trench for the core.
Regardless of size multiple raised gardens should be spaced at least 18 inches apart to make it easier to walk in between beds.
You should use native soil from your yard if possible since this will be best for your plants.
Good compost is rich in organic matter has good moisture retention great for soil structure and can provide lots of nutrition for plants.
However if grass is growing in between.
Yep our beds are 100 full of all this good stuff.
Steps to create a core gardening raised bed.
The problem with compost is getting it cheaply in enough quantity to fill a raised garden bed.
Now that we have a better idea of the types of materials we want to add to our raised beds it is time to fill them up.
In this video i show how you can fill a raised vegetable garden bed and save money on soil costs.
Aside from sometimes adding bulk soil to the bottom of our deepest beds there is no other fillers at the bottom.