Creating a cold frame for your raised garden bed allows you to extend your gardening season — you may get a month or more on either side of your normal growing season, or you may be able to grow all year–round. There are many ways in which you can create a cold frame for your …
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How Do I Make My Garden More Accessible? We believe that gardening is an activity that should be available to everyone, regardless of their physical abilities. And for the most part, it is! With a few adaptations and using things like deep raised garden beds, gardening can be a safe and comfortable way for just …
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Yes, you can put plants or seeds in the ground and enjoy at least some success with a garden. But you’ll reap the most rewards when you go into high yield vegetable gardening with a plan, from the ground up. The type of garden bed you use, the plants you buy, and the spacing of …
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So your wooden garden beds have finally worn out and need to be replaced. Or perhaps you are ready to increase the size of your raised beds so you have more growing space. Either way, you’ve decided it’s time to “trade up” for a better garden bed. What will you go about replacing your raised …
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Diana Love and her husband, Ed, got a bit of sticker shock when they priced out having a landscape designer excavate and install garden beds for them. It was exorbitant. They knew it would be a challenging project because they live on a steep hill, but the more-than-$30,000 price was a bit too much all …
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All gardeners know that the soil they grow their plants in impacts the quality of their produce. A garden with no nutrients in the soil won’t grow good veggies, and those veggies won’t have the nutrients to pass on to the people who eat them. Likewise, good soil begins with the bed the soil is …
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Garden Bed of the Month Catherine and Blake Meike Olympia, Washington Catherine and Blake Meike searched the internet a couple of years ago, looking for a garden bed system that fit their needs. They found it in Durable GreebBeds. One challenge was that their yard is all cement, so they needed something that would allow …
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If all you have is a patio, you can still use Durable GreenBeds as patio garden beds! Grow vegetables, herbs, flowers just about anywhere. One of the remarkable things about Durable GreenBeds is that as long as the surface you’re considering putting your beds on is level, you can place these beds on any surface. …
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In early 2020, Guy and his wife, Kristen, purchased two 10x10x2 Durable GreenBeds in a U-shape. Kristen says she wanted to order more, but there just wasn’t enough room in their Hood River, Oregon, garden, surrounded by tall trees in a woodsy mountain setting. Kristen discovered Durable GreenBeds while searching online. Guy says they were …
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Health and Wellness thru on-site gardening Gardeners everywhere have heard about the physical and mental health benefits of gardening, and for seniors, those rewards are even more important. Research shows that gardening relieves stress, increases serotonin levels, boosts the immune system, is good exercise, and may lower the risk of dementia. In fact, just being …
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