For today's Friday Q&A, we're going to be talking about a question regarding raised beds.

This question came from Timothy a couple of months ago, and I replied to him, but I thought,

you know what, his question is probably one that a lot of people are asking.

And his question is this.

What are the advantages of having a raised bed garden that is only six inches tall?

And I think that's a really good question and this is what I told him.

If a raised bed is on top of a plot of land, like you're not putting it on concrete or anything

impervious, you're actually putting it in your

garden. Those roots that are in there are going to have access to that deeper soil. But the advantage of

just having six inches in a raised bed is that you can better control the top soil in that raised bed.

And most of the feeder roots of plants are actually in the

top soil now they will go deep like I said but a lot of them are right up there in the top soil and

that will allow you to be able to add fertility and nutrition and to better be able to feed that plant

also another thing is that that anytime you do a raised

bed of any sort, whether that's one with walls like a typical raised bed garden, or if you just do

something called raised rows, where you have raised rows in your ground bed that you never walk on. You have specific paths in between,

but the rows actually function like a raised bed because you never walk on them. Anytime you have

any kind of a raised bed that you don't walk on, you are limiting compaction. And so that way,

there's airflow,

there's more exchange between the air and nutrients

and the water in your garden bed.

And so that's a benefit there

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