2025 Garden season

[Del_]

My wife and I are looking to start our first one this year. For sure some taters, maters, and squash/zucchini. Nice to know AS has a gardening forum! I'll post a thread so as not to hijack this one, since I've got many questions.

Welcome aboard!

Here's a tool that revolutionized my way of gardening.

In your area raised beds are only necessary if you have a very high water table and saturated soil is a problem.

In the north raised beds speed soil warming but in the south the soil often gets to warm. Plus there is the money spent on making raised beds. Buy a Meadow Creature Broadfork instead!

 

[JSMississippi]

Welcome aboard!

Here's a tool that revolutionized my way of gardening.

In your area raised beds are only necessary if you have a very high water table and saturated soil is a problem.

Now that's a cool tool. Unfortunately saturated soil is a problem for us, especially in the spring and into the summer.

 

[sonny580]

When they first came out,-- we got a pack of 10 Earthboxes. Still use some of them today in the greenhouse to start seeds in. We have 3 4'x10' raised beds on an old concrete floor the we dont use anymore. ( no time to water every day) BUT they worked.
Most of the methods and varieties are area specific, so check locally for more ideas.
I am wanting to reduce my 4.5 acre garden down to 2 18'x100' x9' high tunnels. Main problem here is wind so til I try we wont know if it works or not.
Having too much other stuff to do the tunnels would let us garden when its raining out or has rained and muddy and cant work outside.
Not sure the varieties for the north would work for you. Some probably will but again its a test the first year to see what works.

 

[Del_]

It's been a decade of so but we had 32 4ft. X 16ft. raised beds back in the day.

I started with raised bed gardening back in 1980.

Today we call them beds and they are not raised. They are dug 16 inches deep using a broad fork. We don't walk in them and they have a stake at each end marking their locations. Our beds today are 40 inches X 50 ft with 20 inch walkways.