Growing Carrots and Root Vegetables in Raised Beds
How to grow straight carrots, beets and radishes in a raised bed: matching the variety to your loose soil depth, sowing and thinning, and the usual reasons roots fork.
Practical Guides for Productive Raised Beds
Vegetables that do well in raised beds, with crop guides for tomatoes, lettuce and salad greens, and carrots and other root vegetables.
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How to grow straight carrots, beets and radishes in a raised bed: matching the variety to your loose soil depth, sowing and thinning, and the usual reasons roots fork.
How to keep salad leaves coming from a raised bed: which lettuce types need what room, sowing shallowly, coping with heat and bolting, two ways to harvest and sowing a little at a time.
How to grow tomatoes in a raised bed: choosing between determinate and indeterminate types, giving each plant enough room, planting deep, supporting it from day one and keeping moisture even.
Twelve dependable vegetables for a first raised bed, with the season, relative space need and starting method for each, plus the crops that take a lot of room and how to decide.