By Alison Kerr

Here’s a simple 5 step process which will take your garden from overgrown and wild to ready for raised bed vegetable planting in about an hour.

What you need:

A 4 foot by 4 foot area of garden (1.2 meters by 1.2 meters). If you have a built raised bed use that, but, if you don’t, any area of non-shaded garden ground will do. Hands and feet – use gardening gloves if you prefer to keep your hands out of dirt, bugs, or spiky plants. Lemonade, or other thirst-quenching beverage to taste. A long-handled garden fork. Compost (more on that later). Seeds. How to prepare your raised bed vegetable garden for planting in 1 hour

 

Step 1 – pull out annuals (5 minutes)

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