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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The Absolute Basics of Raised Bed Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Joe Lamp'l is back on the show today, and we talk about growing in raised beds. The depth, height, length, and material you should use, and much more! Connect With Joe Lamp'l: JoeGardener.com Online Course: Beginner Gardener Fundamentals Instagram Subscriber List YouTube Facebook Group Facebook Growing a Greener World PBS Series Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Shop Epic Gardening I'm carrying Birdies Garden Products raised beds, the ones I use exclusively in my front yard garden. They're a corrugated Aluzinc steel, powder-coated raised bed designed to last a lifetime. Buy Birdies Raised Beds at my online store. Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? Welcome back to another epic gardening episode. I'm Kevin and I'm joined by the equally if not even more epic

0:11.6

Joe Lample who is the Joe behind Joe Gardner.com and actually

0:15.3

has this incredible gardening course out right now called beginner gardening

0:18.8

fundamentals and if you couldn't tell by this week of episodes, we kind of are going over beginner gardening

0:25.2

fundamentals.

0:26.2

So if that's something you're interested in, you can always check that out, Joe Gardner.com

0:29.7

forward slash learn.

0:31.4

But what I thought we do today, we've talked about

0:33.4

starting seeds, we've talked about soil, we need somewhere to put that soil. And

0:37.5

for many of us that means a raised bed. And Joe has been doing raised beds for

0:42.0

quite some time.

0:43.0

Raised beds are the staple of my soil gardening as well.

0:46.4

So I figured, Joe, first of all, maybe we should clear up some of the questions that people have about the dimensions of a raise bed.

0:53.5

How big, how tall does it really need to be, you know, three feet deep or can I get away with

0:58.1

six inches?

0:59.1

So maybe just some of those general basics of how to size your raise bed.

1:03.4

Okay, I love it. Let's start there.

1:06.4

So first of all, you know, people want to know

1:09.0

how high, what's the minimum height I can get away with because you know money's tight you know the

1:14.1

woods expensive I don't have a lot of room so I would say this I would say that it you

1:19.2

know the minimum that you should shoot for is six inches high but the more the better up to you know anything

1:24.8

over 18 inches is overkill my beds are 18 inches but that's a nice height for

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