You should use native soil from your yard if possible since this will be best for your plants.
Filling raised garden beds with logs.
Yep our beds are 100 full of all this good stuff.
Raised planter beds provide great drainage and well aerated soil as well as protection from weeds and pests.
We re building hugelkultur raised beds which means we re filling 1 3 of them with rotting wood.
Aside from sometimes adding bulk soil to the bottom of our deepest beds there is no other fillers at the bottom.
No need to spend a large amount of cash.
From collecting your own compost to finding free topsoil you can do so much with a minimum budget.
When fully planted not only are they beautiful but they allow you to create a low maintenance garden almost anywhere.
I did this a few years ago with my metal raised beds.
Build a trench around 8 12 inches deep and about 1 2 feet down the middle of the raised bed.
How to fill a raised garden bed cheaply.
The microbes in the soil start to break the wood down and add nutrients to the soil.
Just how the roots.
Not only is this beneficial in more than one way it helps u.
Filling your raised garden bed.
Hugelkultur gardening is a permaculture technique where logs branches woodchips and other organic matter is mounded.
Steps to create a core gardening raised bed.
The wood is composted under the soil retaining water and nitrogen.
To fill a raised garden bed you ll need enough soil to fill the bed and some organic compost.
Build a trench for the core.
Knowing how to fill a raised garden bed cheaply can make the biggest difference.
If you can t use native soil purchase a nutrient rich mixture from your local gardening store.
These steps can be used whether you have an existing raised bed or you are filling up a new empty raised bed.
The cost to fill a raised bed with bagged fertile soil planting mix adds up quickly.
The word hugelkultur roughly translates to hill culture soil is added to the top and left to do what it does.
Hugelkultur gardening is an excellent way to fill your raised beds.
Now that we have a better idea of the types of materials we want to add to our raised beds it is time to fill them up.
You can find your own ways to produce the materials you need for your raised garden.
The volume of soil you need is 12 feet times 4 feet times 1 5 feet length times width times depth.