5 Ways to Put Your Garden Beds to Bed for Winter

How to Prepare a Raised Garden Bed for Winter | This Old House

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook puts a vegetable garden to bed for winter. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)

How to winterize a vegetable garden - see our 5 expert tips

Topping up the bed with compost fixes any gaps as the soil level drops over time and adds nutrients to the soil as it breaks down. Raised beds ...

6 Steps to Preparing a Raised Garden Bed for Winter – SavanaGarden

"Many of our weeds are bearing seeds now. Some seeds can live for 30 to 40 years or more." For raised beds that are only covered with weeds, ...

Raised Bed Gardening Do's and Don'ts

Do Consider Bed Height · Ease of Working in the Garden Bed · Weed Pressure · Animals · Filling the Beds · Height of Crops · Access to Ground Soil.

How to Build a Raised Garden Bed: Step-by-Step Guide

Raised beds can be filled with the ideal soil that your plants will love. Burrowing pests and weeds can be blocked off from below with hardware ...

Prepping spring garden beds quickly and easily for planting

Less work in spring. With an established garden bed there's not much prep you need to do to start planting in spring. If you cleared out and ...

How I Prepare My Raised Beds for Winter - Kevin Lee Jacobs

[…] put the garden to bed for the winter too. I followed Kevin's instructions over at A Garden for the House and laid newspaper across the beds ...

Make your garden look good in winter - Sweet Life and Lemons

The best way to ensure you have a garden that looks great in winter is to give structure and shape to the space.

Preparing Your Garden For Winter - the cottage peach

Prep new garden bed areas with cardboard and compost ... If you're planning new garden beds for the next growing season, winter is an excellent ...

Lasagna Gardening: How to Layer a Raised Garden Bed

Essentially, I’m putting in various layers of organic materials like cardboard, mulch, garden trimmings, and soil.

Complete Raised Bed Gardening Guide For Beginners

I'd even suggest applying a no-till method to your in-ground garden! With a raised bed garden, tilling is not needed at all, you can simply add ...

Planting Raised Garden Beds: Spacing & Growing Vegetables and ...

Companion planting is especially important to get the most out of your raised bed. Combining buddy plants will let you grow more vegetables and ...

How to Decide Where to Put Your Garden - Gardens That Matter

Is it sunny enough? How do I know if the soil is okay? What else do I need to think about? In this post, we'll explore five factors to ...

Gardening in Winter (Cold-Weather Growing Methods)

If you live in a climate that doesn't get too cold in the winter (doesn't dip more than a few degrees below freezing), you may get away with ...

How to Start a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden for Beginners

If the raised garden bed is being placed in an area of bare ground with no weeds, grass or sod then you can put the raised garden bed frame ...

How To Prepare An Old Garden Bed For New Plants

Twice a year before switching the beds over, I top off the beds with a layer of compost from my compost pile and local compost. I also add worm ...

How to Make Raised Garden Beds - Wyse Guide

Prepare your area by clearing the grass or anything that may be setting roots into the ground. I like to make the bed above ground then set it ...

Garden prep ~ How-to smother weeds with cardboard, newspaper ...

The basic idea is to use biodegradable and eco-friendly material (cardboard and newspaper) to squash weeds and remaining plants in the garden to prepare the ...

Galvanized Steel Raised Garden Beds Plans & Tutorial - Growfully

Why did you choose to put landscape fabric under the bed? Why did you make the beds so deep? How long do you think these will last? Do you have ...

How to Use Garden Bed Covers to Protect Your Vegetable Garden

Unlike those used for temporary frost protection, covers for pest prevention are typically left in place for weeks or months and must therefore allow light to ...