How to build a raised garden bed, according to master gardeners

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5. I thought small

and dug out a 10'x10' plot in soil that was equal parts sand and rocks. Dug in 2 bales of peat moss. Gardened that plot intensively, stayed flush with veg all summer and had enough to can. The canned stuff didn't last the whole winter, but winter there lasted until mid May. That garden fork, roll of hardware cloth buried a foot deep and stapled to stakes cut from back yard wood, bales of peat moss, and yearly seed order all paid for itself several times over. Composted leaves and kitchen waste with horse poop from a neighbor did it for fertilizer every year, and every year the plot produced more.

It was also entertainment value every late summer when I put a side dressing of fish emulsion on stuff that needed a nitrogen boost, the cats were hilarious!

I wasn't interested in being a reality TV star, I just wanted to grow food. I knew I could handle a small plot and do it well. That's what I did.

And no, it didn't involve any raised beds.