Raised Bed Garden Soil
The best soil combination for raised garden beds should have two parts.
Raised bed garden soil. High quality amendments to feed your plants. Top 9 Garden Soil for Raised Beds Garden Soil 1. 50 of your growing medium should be COMPOST buy at a local nursery or here online.
It works quite simply. This mixture will be high in nutrients and should promote good plant growth. In my example shown below I am calculating a 4x4 or 48x48 raised bed that is 6 deep.
There are various advantages of raising your vegetables in garden soil versus raised bed soil. A good base or growing medium. The compost helps keep the soil loose.
You can mix the soil in with the compost thoroughly or layer them which is known as lasagna gardening. 3 bags Teufels Organic Compost 3 cf x 3 9 cf. Usually surrounded by some material like concrete wood or rock.
Miracle-Gro - Expands up to 3x when water is added and creates up to 90 more air space in native soil. Your raised garden box soil should contain the following. The following soil mix was developed by Planet Natural to fill a 4 X 8 raised bed one foot deep 32 cu ft.
Four 4 x 8 raised planter beds occupy our enclosed garden on the south side of our property. 5 bags Black Gold Peat Moss 22 cf x 5 11 cf. Amending Basic Raised Garden Bed Soil One way to build this mix is to start with a raised bed soil mix that is half topsoil and half organic compost.