Raised Bed Gardening: A Complete Beginner's Guide: Grow Everything from Herbs to Tomatoes in Your Own...

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Tara Nolan

Raised Bed Gardening

A Complete Beginner's Guide: Grow Everything from Herbs to Tomatoes in Your Own Custom Raised...

Tara Nolan

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New Shoe Press
04 July 2023

Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Container gardening; Allotments

Series: New Shoe Press

Are you eager to step into vegetable gardening but don't know where to start? With this guide to the nearly foolproof raised-bed technique, you'll be growing your own organic food in no time. Growing your own food is a satisfying experience as well as an investment that will pay you and the community back in a myriad of ways, including benefits for the earth, greater food security, and better health. But where do you start and what is the best way to approach creating a garden and growing food? The raised bed gardening technique, used by successful food gardeners for centuries, is simple and can be done pretty much anywhere. Building beds allows you to bring in the right materials, which might not exist in your own environment, and grow your own food year-round, if you so choose-no matter where you live. So whether your outdoor space is big or small, raised beds are the best choice for your first vegetable garden. Some water and a little love and attention is all you need be successful.

In Raised Bed Gardening: A Complete Beginner's Guide, you will learn everything you need to know to prepare and execute your garden plan and grow and harvest your produce. The book includes:

Plans for building quick-and-simple beds that you can make yourself with a few common tools

Details on how to build the right soil mix to fill your beds

List of the easiest plants to grow as a beginner

Plant information, along with which plants work best with other plants

Planting advice, including spacing instructions

Advice on mulch, watering, and fertilizing

Organic pest control

How to harvest and store your produce

How to get the most out of your raised bed space

So get started on your path to becoming a gardener. No matter what your level of confidence, this book will give you the information and tools you need to succeed.

By: Tara Nolan
Imprint: New Shoe Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm,
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780760383681
ISBN 10: 0760383685
Series: New Shoe Press
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction RAISED BED BASICS Benefits of Raised Beds Choosing a Size Choosing Raised Bed Materials Soil for Raised Beds Location and Site Maintenance Consider Drip Irrigation RAISED BEDS FOR BIG SPACES The Essential Raised Bed Accessorize Your Raised Bed Raised Bed with Upcycled Wood Raised Bed with Benches Utility Raised Bed Other Ways to Build Raised Beds RAISED BEDS FOR SMALL SPACES Vertical Herb (or Lettuce) Planter Elevated Planter Box Galvanized Steel and Wood Container Upcycled Suitcase Planter with Gas Pipe Legs A Quick Vertical Gardening Pallet Project Tips for Adding Raised Beds to a Balcony or Rooftop Patio RAISED BEDS WITH PURPOSE Potato-Growing Box Cold Frame Using an Old Window Greenhouse Cover for Raised Bed Versailles-Inspired Planter Protected Strawberry Planter NOT HANDY? NO PROBLEM Make a Raised Bed Using Corners Turn a Stock Tank into a Garden Why Garden in Fabric Pots? Burlap-Wrapped Plastic Pails More Easy Raised Bed Ideas SUPPORT YOUR PLANTS A Classic Garden Obelisk A Simple Lashing Technique Sandwich Board Trellis Resources and Contributors Meet Tara Nolan Index

Tara Nolan, author of Raised Bed Revolution, is a garden writer and editor with a diverse background in publishing. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, as well as in magazines, including Reader's Digest and Canadian Living, and on websites, like Design*Sponge. Tara is a co-founder, with three other garden writers, of Savvy Gardening (savvygardening.com) and was the award-winning web editor of Canadian Gardening magazine's website (CanadianGardening.com) for six years. Tara does work for the Toronto Botanical Garden and the Canadian Garden Council, and volunteers for the Royal Botanical Garden. She is also a member of GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators. Tara is from the Toronto, Canada, area.