What is up everyone?

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

It's Kevin and today we're talking about five reasons why you may want to consider growing in raised beds. This is something I'm doing effectively out of

necessity in my property. I have a small front yard garden with quite poor soil and I'm renting and so that brings me to reason number one

and also reason number 1.5 let's call it I'm clumping two into one reason

number one you can grow on contaminated or poor soil.

With a raised bed, of course, you are growing above the ground.

You are adding your own soil mix, however you decide to amend and add that mix but it is

insured to be safe because you're putting it in there a lot of, unfortunately, what happens right now is we are living in,

building on gardening in areas that maybe were repurposed. They were used for something else in the past, there's some heavy metals in the soil,

etc. And raised beds can circumvent that problem, especially if you put a liner on the bottom,

you get to grow with soil you 100% know is absolutely safe to grow in. Now on the same token you can also

grow in soil that is poor or in areas with poor soil.

Now, instead of putting in that work,

which certainly can be done to rehabilitate

and improve soil, you can throw a raised bed on top and then just go ahead and get to planting.

Reason number two, especially important for me and you wouldn't think it being

that I'm only 31 years old but for mobility

reasons I'm six foot four and bending down crouching even doing proper ergonomics

or biomechanical movements and squatting down,

that's still going to take a toll on my body over time.

And if you're an elderly, disabled, or mobility challenged person, then sometimes raised beds might be the only way you can still access gardening as a hobby.

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