What's up everyone? Welcome back. Today we're talking about raised bed gardening and specifically some recipes for good soil in a raised bed garden. Now this is something that I've actually had problems with in the past where, but it turns out that

I did not and I had some struggles with plants just not thriving. Failure to launch, failure to thrive,

I guess is what I would call it.

And so there's a lot of different things

that you have to consider.

And the first thing to consider is you want to build

soil that is fertile and a really good combination to start out with is just doing a

one-to-one ratio of really high-quality compost and screened topsoil. So the topsoil you want to be screened

because if you buy bulk topsoil,

which I've done in the past,

you're gonna typically get a bunch of chunky rocks,

clay, sticks, and stuff like that if you don't get it screened.

So you definitely want to make sure you get screened topsoil and you can ask them how small

the openings in their screen are and that will give you an indication of the largest particle you'll probably find in your topsoil.

Next, when it comes to that compost, you want to get as many different compost sources as possible.

So maybe chicken, cow, horse, mushroom, food scraps,

something like that, because each different type of compost

has a different blend of micronutrients and a different ratio of micronutrients.

So it is important if you can to get a compost that is blended with as many different sources as possible.

So although it is just one-to-one compost and screen topsoil, that compost actually if you were

to break it down has different ratios of different types of compost.

Now if you want a more quickly draining mixture

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