Discover what to plant in a raised garden bed, including the best vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers for healthy, high-yield growth. Raised beds can be as simple or as elaborate as you would like. The benefits of raised garden beds include better soil drainage, easy access to plants, portability, soil customization, increased soil control, and also the ability to keep weeds and pests at bay. Almost every kind of plant will grow better in it for many reasons. The soil is loose and fluffy since you aren’t walking on it. You can target the necessary amendments where they are needed. The soil will warm up faster in the spring, allowing you to plant earlier. The size and shape of the bed will make it simple to cover when cold nights threaten in the fall so you will be able to extend both ends of the growing season. You will have higher yields since you can plant intensively. Depending on the height of your bed, it will be easier to tend, reducing strain on your back and knees. Anthony will show various raised bed layout ideas and also demonstrate how to use some of the necessary hand tools.

Biography

Anthony and his family live in Cedar Grove, NJ. Seventeen years ago, he and his wife bought a 25-acre farm in the Black Dirt region of Pine Island, NY. Anthony had intended to be a hobby farmer on just an acre growing his family the cleanest produce possible using non-GMO seeds, hand cultivation of weeds, old fashioned farm equipment, picking only when ready, and without chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides or herbicides, and allowing the soil to naturally regenerate each season. These sustainable farming techniques produced a shocking abundance of produce. After just one season, Bracco Farms was born out of the demanding momentum of the growing food movement.

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