April 20, 2009
Don’t Make Your Beds—Raise Them
More folks are planting vegetable gardens this year than have done so in a number of years. But unlike our grandparents who had enough land to devote to a large garden plot, most people these days have much less land to devote to vegetable production.
One way to maximize the production potential of your land is to use raised beds. Raised beds lend themselves to more intensive planting and therefore greater production per square foot.
Check out this recent article from Shane Harris, a regional home grounds agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Shane and many other horticulture professionals contribute to the ACES Home Grounds blog.