Hi, everybody. I'm Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.

Whenever we do a topic around raised beds or raised bed gardening, there's a lot of activity,

there's a lot of questions, there's a lot of interest, and rightfully so, because there's a lot to know.

And recently, we have been getting extra interest in a project that I had found myself immersed in voluntarily, but not quite according to the plan that it was in my mind for when I was going to do this.

And that was, and you might have heard about this or seen it on some of the post I've done recently on a raised bed

makeover project. Now, if you've been following me for any length of time, no doubt you have

seen videos or pictures or episodes of growing a greener world where I am in my nice raised

bed garden here on my farm in North Atlanta.anta it's 16 raised beds the garden footprint is

about 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep and these big beautiful chunky cedar timbers and when i

installed those 14 years ago it was gorgeous gorgeous, and they're still gorgeous. But over time,

time and rot have caught up with me. And because they were untreated, there's really

nothing to preserve them other than the natural preservatives within the cedar itself.

And it had served me well. In 14 years is

pretty much pushing the limit. And they were starting to rot. And I saw the writing on the wall

around year number 10. Things were starting to give way. The corners were showing extreme wear.

And over the last three to four years,

I knew that I was really just writing on borrowed time. And it was inevitable that at some point I was going to need to make the decision on taking those beds out and then replacing them

with something. Well, that time came recently in the last couple months.

The beds were literally falling apart.

And I knew I didn't have another year in them.

I had gotten all I could out of them.

And it was the termites combined with the heat and the humidity

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