When you decide to build a garden from scratch, you'll quickly find yourself facing some big decisions. For one, should you plant in the ground or build raised beds? And if you go with raised beds, ...

Choosing the right wood for your raised garden beds is no small matter. Depending on what wood you go with, you could enjoy your raised beds for many, many years to come - or discover that you have to ...

You can tell a lot about a gardener by their raised beds. The ones that stay straight, drain well, and don’t rot halfway ...

Does the type of lumber used in making a raised bed for growing vegetables matter? I was hoping to recycle some lumber, but what I've collected is painted and may or may not be treated. Does the age ...

Raised garden beds offer advantages over traditional in-ground gardening, especially for those with soil issues or limited mobility. When selecting the best materials, consider factors like rot ...

You don’t need a sprawling lawn to be a gardener. Any outdoor space — be it a balcony or small patch of grass — can be home to a raised garden bed. Though useful for all gardeners, they’re especially ...

I got a good recommendation for raised beds from Greg Williams, an architect in Lake Oswego (there's something about architects I trust; perhaps because my grandfather was an architect). Anyway, ...

Q: Our new home has raised wooden beds in the vegetable garden that we want to plant. I'm assuming the wood was treated with preservatives to keep it from rotting. Do I need to worry about it ...

In this video, I show how I fix a broken raised garden bed that had buried logs and wood in the base (Hugelkultur) and I also show you our new plant prepping area. Self Sufficient Me is based on our ...

At a recent environmental conference sponsored by a group called Beyond Pesticides, I attended a workshop on wood safety. About 50 people were gathered for this workshop, which presented alternatives ...