![]() *Want to see how we built these garden beds and saved money too? Check the tutorial out here. So, lets talk about how to fill a raised garden bed while saving money and soil. Over time, this will become a nice black nutrient rich soil and you will have the robust garden you have always wanted. You have layers of organic matter, being compressed by the weight of each other, getting water and heat to help decompose the material underneath. ![]() Its all about the layering. There is this thing you can do to help fill those garden boxes, without filling them entirely with nutrient rich soil and compost. There is a bonus to this, because the items you use in the bottom will eventually turn into amazingly mulched compost that will feed your raised garden beds for years. I have also heard it called lasagna gardening. I finally settled on a way that worked perfectly for us, with our resources. This is not a new thing, and its not something I invented, but I loved the concept and thought it would be helpful to share my experience with it. ![]() When we started building our raised garden beds, we knew we could not afford to fill all the beds completely with this amazing rich and expensive soil, and I began to research ways to fill our garden beds. I really wanted to focus on doing as much organic gardening as we could. It is the best option for our area, water conditions and lifestyle. I cannot believe how much better all of my plants are doing in the raised garden beds. I have a feeling it has something to do with the combination of organic composts, topsoil, and loamy soil that we combined. Abandoning our ground garden and focusing on our raised garden beds completely transformed my gardening game. Having raised garden beds is pretty much a game changer in my life right now. We have really difficult clay soil, and we have spent years trying to improve it. We finally decided we needed to build some raised planter boxes so that I could grow the smaller vegetables with ease. There are so many benefits of raised garden beds and I want to share how I created this easy tutorial to fill them for less. Today I want to share one of my most favorite gardening tips to creating a beautiful garden by learning how to fill a raised garden bed with organic materials while saving soil and money! This will guarantee your vegetable garden will take off and produce amazing results. Hey there friends! Today is a really fun post! If you have gotten the gardening bug this year, this is just the right post for you.
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