Make Your Own Raised Beds for Vegetables

You can make your own raised beds. It is not hard to do.

Using Viragrow garden soil eliminates the rocks that can cause problems for carrots and other root crops. The garden soil is clean, beautiful and very easy to work with. Construct them so you can reach into the bed without stepping on the soil. Four feet is probably the widest you want to make them.

Raised beds with wood side walls. Protect the wood with oils or even plastic. The bottom should drain into the soil beneath it.

Wooden side walls need to be protected. Doug fir works great and is resistant to rotting and does not have some of the natural oils and resins that redwood and cedar contain. They will need to be replaced over time but you can protect the side walls by oiling them down or stapling plastic sheeting to the inside. The bottoms must be open to the soil beneath it and there should NOT be plastic under the soil. No rocks are necessary. The bottom of the bed is rock free and the Viragrow garden soil is in direct contact with the soil. Fill the raised bed to the brim as it will settle a couple of inches with time and use.

Corner braces

A high phosphorus fertilizer is a good idea when planting. You can use bone meal, triple super phosphate or even ammonium phosphate as a pre-plant fertilizer raked into the soil prior to planting. We have organic and conventional fertilizers.

Seed or plant transplants directly into Viragrow garden soil at the proper time of year. If you want a copy of our vegetable planting calendar email us at info@viragrow.com and we will send it to you. It was put together for 36 degrees north latitude and about a 2000 foot elevation.

Sidedress vegetables (apply a small trickly of fertilizer two inches from the row of plants) and water it in once a month. Use Blood Meal or a high nitrogen fertilizer like ammonium sulfate.

 

 Growing in a good garden soil, preparing adequately before planting, planting at the right time of year and fertilizing regularly as it grows and as you harvest will go a long way to having a successful raised garden. Viragrow Delivers!

Viragrow demonstration raised beds at their facility on 1100 E. Dehli St. North Las Vegas, Nevada