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