Q&A- Do you have to turn or change out raised bed soil?

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Do I have to turn/till or change out my raised bed soil every year? The short answer no. Join me on today's Q&A to hear a little more.

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0:00.0	Today's Q&A has to do with your raised bed soil. We talk about this quite a vet and I keep
0:06.4	getting questions on it and I know it applies to so many of us who garden in raised beds.
0:11.7	The question is, do I have to turn slash till or change the soil in the raised bed every year?
0:19.5	And the short answer is no. You don't have to do any of that. In fact,
0:25.8	one of the main reasons why you want to garden in a raised bed is because you don't turn and till
0:32.7	your soil. That's one of the benefits of it. Not only benefit for you because you don't have to find a
0:38.6	tiller and find a way to do that, but also it benefits the soil because you're not having to
0:44.4	turn that soil, not bringing weed seeds to the front, you're keeping the soil structure intact.
0:50.8	That said, you do want to add to your soil. And the reason why this is actually a good time of year
0:57.4	to talk about this is that although many of us have been growing in our raised beds for a couple of
1:01.9	months now, at least because we have longer growing seasons, for me, some of my crops are at a
1:08.6	transition point this time of year, where my spring crops are starting to finish up, some summer crops are at a transition point this time of year where my spring crops are starting to finish up.
1:13.9	Some summer crops are starting to go in.
1:16.1	So this is a good transition period for me.
1:18.9	And then for others, this may be when you're starting to plant because you're in a short season area and you plant this time of year like your summer crops anyway.
1:26.8	And that's also a thing to keep in mind
1:29.3	is how many crops are you growing in a particular bed? For me, being in a more long season area
1:34.9	in Arkansas where our frost dates are typically between April 1st and November 1st, that's our
1:41.6	growing season generally. That's a long growing season because I can grow cool season crops most of the year.
1:48.9	Some of them grow all winter.
1:50.9	Then I've got growing crops in most of my raised beds almost all year round.
1:56.3	Because of that, I try to add compost to my raised beds whenever I am making a transition between one crop
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