Raised garden beds are the ideal way to create an easy to manage bed system for growing your own veg. Raised beds are free-draining, easily accessed, early warming and particularly useful to help you get better results on poor soils. A raised bed can even be used as garden beds for your flowers, either to display or to use for cuttings.
Yes, the raised beds have worked out very well for us. For some reason they seem to get less weeds too! And the weeds they have are easy enough to pull. I just sit on the top board and scoot along. We set up soaker hoses in all of them except the potatoes. That one I use the old fashioned sprinkler to water when we haven't had a lot of rain. So far that hasn't been a problem for us this month. Its been very cold and wet! I had to water a few days in May though!
