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The soil inside your raised bed is everything. Get it right, and your plants practically take care of themselves. Get it wrong by packing it with straight garden soil or cheap topsoil, and you’ll spend the season wondering why nothing’s thriving. Filling a raised bed doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. Whether you’re building …

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Raised beds give you more control over your soil, better drainage, and an earlier start to the season than in-ground growing, but not every vegetable is equally happy in them.  Some crops thrive in the confined, well-amended space of a raised bed. Others need more room or deeper soil than a standard bed provides. This …

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