Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're going to talk about

raised beds, but we're going to talk about how to make a raised bed that does not have

any sides, which is also known as just a mounted raised bed. So in my front yard now I've got four

metal corrugated beds from Bertie's Garden products which are fantastic. I love them. I have one makeshift bed using

some ingredients from Home Depot which are very cheap just wood and these

concrete blocks with some slots in them. Then I have another old school just classic

wooden raised bed, but I have also a bunch of extra soil that I'm using and I've

created a mound out of it and what I was wondering is okay well let's go ahead and just make a raised bed out of the soil itself

So this is a very common technique in fact fact, it's actually the most common way

that raised beds are actually built.

So if you're doing small scale urban farming,

maybe even a bit larger scale farming,

raised beds are the classic way of growing, but there aren't sides to them.

The soil itself is the side.

And so the advantage of this, of course, would be drainage is better. You actually have deeper volume of loosened soil and it's a little bit easier to reach without kneeling.

It warms up earlier in spring because of the angle of the sun hitting it and then it's just not as expensive

It doesn't take as much time there's less maintenance you do have to form those beds in the first place but once they're formed you know there's no

metal or wooden sides to deal with there's no toxicity issues if you're maybe doing

pallets or plastics or something like that. So it's a very effective way to grow and

it's one that I'm experimenting with so I'm doing a mounted raised bed in my

front yard along with all the other more classic raised beds just because I want to practice

some of these more classic techniques as well.

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