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<blockquote data-quote="jakerz" data-source="post: 2034997" data-attributes="member: 18966"><p>We did the raised bed this last spring and it worked out great. And store bought dirt is easier then trying to make your dirt better. We used 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss and this made a very fluffy easy to manage dirt mix. Now that we have that in our boxes, we only have to add compost from now on. We took this mix from the "square foot gardening" book. Our box was 7" deep (I would recommend going deeper) and 4'x4'. In one box we grew the following:</p><p></p><p>4 corn stalks</p><p>3 cucumber plants</p><p>4 heads of lettuce</p><p>2 zucchini plants</p><p>6 tomato plants</p><p>16 carrots</p><p>4 broccoli</p><p>4 okra</p><p>16 onions</p><p></p><p>Quite a bit in a small space. The other box mainly had herbs and peppers. I installed bottoms on the box and drilled drainage holes and installed chains on the sides so I could move it around if I needed to. This was dumb. Once the dirt was in the box it was WAY too heavy to move by myself. I can hook up the lawn mower to it and move it if I need to though. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jakerz, post: 2034997, member: 18966"] We did the raised bed this last spring and it worked out great. And store bought dirt is easier then trying to make your dirt better. We used 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss and this made a very fluffy easy to manage dirt mix. Now that we have that in our boxes, we only have to add compost from now on. We took this mix from the "square foot gardening" book. Our box was 7" deep (I would recommend going deeper) and 4'x4'. In one box we grew the following: 4 corn stalks 3 cucumber plants 4 heads of lettuce 2 zucchini plants 6 tomato plants 16 carrots 4 broccoli 4 okra 16 onions Quite a bit in a small space. The other box mainly had herbs and peppers. I installed bottoms on the box and drilled drainage holes and installed chains on the sides so I could move it around if I needed to. This was dumb. Once the dirt was in the box it was WAY too heavy to move by myself. I can hook up the lawn mower to it and move it if I need to though. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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