Raised Bed Gardening

Are you thinking about building a garden, but you don't have the time, space, or inclination to till up a patch of open ground? Maybe you've always wanted to grow fresh, healthy food or beautiful flowers at home, but you've got mobility concerns or physical limitations that won't allow you to bend and twist in a traditional garden. Or maybe you live on a rental property where you want a garden, but it can't be a permanent installation. No worries! You can be a gardener, and you can do it with raised beds! 

Raised bed gardens are a great way to address any of these restrictions, and with the development of compact varieties of many common garden plants, you can grow almost anything you'd normally see in a traditional native soil garden. By definition, a raised bed garden is any garden that utilizes materials to create a planting space that sits above the elevation of the ground, and the only limit on what you can build is your imagination. Raised bed gardens can be built from a variety of materials, eliminate much of the guesswork of soil quality, and will provide a rewarding hobby you'll enjoy for years to come. 

In This Book You Will Learn: 

 Raised Bed Gardening

 Designing and Building a Raised Bed Garden

 Choosing Plant Varieties That Thrive in Raised Beds

 Easy Planting and Maintenance Techniques

 Planting Your Seedlings

 Watering for Maximum Plant Health

 Fertilizer and Compost for Optimum Growth

 Dealing with Weeds, Pests, and Pathogens

 Maximize Space with Vertical Growing

 Harvesting and Overwintering

 On Basic Botany and Being a Gardener

 The Four Elements of Basic Botany

BONUS!

 Traditional Vegetable Gardening

 Designing and Building a Traditional Garden

 Choosing Seeds and Plants for Beginners and Novices

 Troubleshooting Weeds, Pests, and Disease

 How to prevent and treat insect and pathogen problems

 How to use crop rotation, vertical gardening, and succession planting to maximize space

 How to harvest food and flowers for use in the home

 How to use companion planting for the benefit of your garden 

 How to attract beneficial insects and other organisms to your plants and soil 

 How to keep a garden journal to record your activities for future planning 

And much more! 

So if you're ready to open your eyes to a whole new perspective on...