Gardening Series: Dig in the Dirt! Soil Preparation: How Do You Prepare Garden Soil for Planting? P7

By Catherine Boeckmann

March 14, 2025

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A Note on Raised Beds

If you’re struggling with your soil, another option is raised garden beds. With raised beds, you control the soil that you put in the bed. Whether you decide to plant directly in the ground or in a raised bed,

make sure that you don’t walk on your newly amended soil, or it will get compacted. The general rule is to make sure a bed is no wider than four feet—or has a garden path—so that you don’t walk on the soil. 

Raised beds also help in colder climates to advance your growing season by a couple of weeks. Speed things along by covering the beds with something light-blocking and non-porous, like black plastic anchored down with rocks. If you’re not keen on plastic, you could lay old salvaged windows over the bed. At a minimum, we like to cover our beds with cardboard or old carpet remnants to keep weeds from growing.

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