Table Of ContentIntroduction Welcome to Raised Bed Gardening What Are Raised Beds? 1 Getting Started The Best Journey Starts with a Plan 2 Building Your Raised Beds Making the Dream into a Reality 3 Filling Your Raised Beds It's All in the Soil 4 Planting and G rowing in Your Raised Beds Keep It Simple, Expand Later Beginner-Friendly Crops to Grow in Raised Beds Staking, Trellising, and Other Structures 5 Layouts and Planting Plans for Your Raised Beds Here We Grow! Conclusion Resources About the Author Index
SynopsisSetting up your first raised bed garden? With help from YouTube gardening star CaliKim, you'll soon be growing your own fresh, organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers like a pro. Whether your yard is big or small, raised beds are the perfect fit . They allow you to create a controlled growing environment, filled with fertile soil, where plants thrive. Raised beds help gardeners overcome rocky or less-than-ideal soils , there's little to no weeding involved , and they can be as large or as petite as you'd like. You can even use an elevated or mobile raised bed if the only sunny space you have to grow is on a patio, deck, or driveway. In The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening , you'll learn how to select the best raised bed for your space , what to fill it with , and tips for staking and trellising plants to save space and improve yields . Additional advice found inside includes: DIY plans for building quick-and-simple beds Info on the best soil mixes for filling raised beds How to mulch, water, and fertilize your new garden Illustrated planting plans to help you determine how many plants fit in each bed Step-by-step project plans for unique raised bed trellising systems The best beginner-friendly crops to get you started How to maximize production from a small raised bed garden Tips to get growing in a way that won't leave you feeling overwhelmed halfway through the season Raised bed gardening is perfect for beginners , as long as you have a pro like CaliKim sharing her essential know-how and cheering you on to veggie-growing victory. This book is part of The First-Time Gardener's Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables . Each book in The First-Time Gardener's Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that's presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout., Raised Bed Gardening (First-Time Gardener) is an essential beginner's guide to building, filling, and growing a raised bed vegetable garden. Setting up your first raised bed garden? With help from YouTube gardening star CaliKim, you'll soon be growing your own fresh, organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers like a pro. Whether your yard is big or small, raised beds are the perfect fit. They allow you to create a controlled growing environment, filled with fertile soil, where plants thrive. Raised beds help gardeners overcome rocky or less-than-ideal soils, there's little to no weeding involved, and they can be as large or as petite as you'd like. You can even use an elevated or mobile raised bed if the only sunny space you have to grow is on a patio, deck, or driveway. In Raised Bed Gardening (First-Time Gardener) , you'll learn how to select the best raised bed for your space, what to fill it with, and tips for staking and trellising plants to save space and improve yields. Additional advice found inside includes: - DIY plans for building quick-and-simple beds - Info on the best soil mixes for filling raised beds - How to mulch, water, and fertilize your new garden - Illustrated planting plans to help you determine how many plants fit in each bed - Step-by-step project plans for unique raised bed trellising systems - The best beginner-friendly crops to get you started - How to maximize production from a small raised bed garden - Tips to get growing in a way that won't leave you feeling overwhelmed halfway through the season Raised bed gardening is perfect for beginners, as long as you have a pro like CaliKim sharing her essential know-how and cheering you on to veggie-growing victory. This book is part of The First-Time Gardener's Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables . Each book in The First-Time Gardener's Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that's presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout., The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardenin g is an essential beginner's guide to building, filling, and growing a raised bed vegetable garden., In her signature warm and beginner-friendly style, YouTube's CaliKim is here to make starting your very first raised bed garden easy and fun. With simple, clear, and inspiring instructions, you'll go from bare ground to a new, productive food garden in no time flat. Free from overly complicated technical information and brimming with easy-to-follow, fully illustrated step-by-step project plans, The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening breaks it all down to basics that won't leave you feeling overwhelmed. Inside the Pages you'll Discover: How to select the ideal raised-bed style for your space, Which raised-bed construction materials to use, The best soil mixes for filling raised beds, Illustrated planting plans to help you determine how much to plant in each bed, Tips on mulching, watering, and fertilizing your new raised beds, DIY trellising systems to save space and make harvesting a snap, The best crops for beginners to start growing today Don't let inexperience or fear keep you from getting started. With CaliKim at your side cheering you on, growing your own fresh, organic veggies is easier than you think. Book jacket.