The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening: All the know-how you need to build and grow a raised bed garden [Paperback]

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 gardenersovercome rocky or less-than-ideal soils, there’s little tono weeding involved, and they can be as large or as petite as you’d like. You can even use anelevated or mobile raised bedif the only sunny space you have to grow is on a patio, deck, or driveway. InThe First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening, you’ll learnhow to select the best raised bed for your space,what to fill it with, andtips for staking and trellisingplants tosave space and improve yields.

Additional advice found inside includes:

• DIY plansfor building quick-and-simple beds
• Info on thebest soil mixesfor filling raised beds
• How to mulch, water, and fertilizeyour new garden
• Illustrated planting plansto help you determine how many plants fit in each bed
• Step-by-step project plans for unique raised bedtrellising systems
• The bestbeginner-friendly cropsto get you started
• How tomaximize productionfrom 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 isperfect for beginners, as long as you have a pro like CaliKim sharing heressential know-howandcheering you onto veggie-growing victory.

This book is part ofThe First-Time Gardener’s Guides seriesfrom Cool Springs Press, which also includesThe First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and FlowersandThe First-Timls­