Raisedbed & coldframe
Hi~
My veg garden has been a failure the last two years what with wet spring, old tiller I can't start myself and poor garden location. Wet spring = soup starter rather than early start in a garden.
A couple of weeks ago I decided my garden was moving to new location for next year and I got a headstart. I want to try a raised bed method of sorts.
I started with a coldframe style raised bed...the back is several inches higher and the 4 old kitchen windows we replaced fit exactly across the top. (I built it myself as an experiment - NO experience with coldframe gardening!)
How high should the soil level be? (Right now it's about the same as the ground level outside the box-perhaps a little bit higher.)
Have now built a 2nd raised bed same size - no extra height in back but thinking temporary hoop house cover idea workable if spring gives us a hard time again next year.
Ground prep: Dug up grass/sod & shook out all topsoil I could into a pile next to the bed. Dug out another (5) inches and piled it to the other side - rocky! Discovered layer of bigger rocks at next level (probably filled in there by previous owner as this used to be a potato farm before the barn burned down and this area may have been the outer edges of the barn entrance). Once the rocks were out ground forked over pretty well...lots of worms throughout, so hoping that's a good sign.
Loosened another level of soil depth of fork.
Dirt back in: Sifted out rocks bigger than a quarter; subsoil back in first, then topsoil; then bag of purchased bag of cow compost.
THE OOPS!: Need more fill - level barely back at ground level. What best to fill a raisedbed & how high?
Have lots of questions re/coldframes & raisedbeds - will wait to see if anyone responds (or tells me which forum to go to!)
Laurie in Maine
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