Using Raised Planting Beds to Grow Your Own Food Year-Round

Using Raised Planting Beds to Grow Your Own Food Year-Round

I used to think that growing your own food on a year round basis meant having to go out and build or buy a greenhouse, learn all you have to from the greenhouse gardening books and dedicate yourself to being close to home all the time in order to watch over your puny plants and not let them die. I got this impression because I was raised in a farming house that never left home because of the animals or plants.

While you can pretty much automate a greenhouse if you have the budget, you still have to have one to grow your own food, right? Wrong. There are habitancy who are using all kinds of different ways to grow at least some of their own food year round. Some are using highly new innovative ways such as Aero Gardens while others are just getting creative.

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One of those creative avenues is using your raised beds on a year round basis in conjunction with a cold frame or small portable greenhouse on the days the thermometer dips below 45 degrees. Placement of the bed is leading as well as the broad area you live in as this recipe will not be as victorious in Alaska as it will be in Kentucky just due to the extreme elements in Alaska so use tasteless sense before you try this.

What I like about this recipe is that the plants can be exposed to the elements when they are suitable and covered when they are not. Because the greenhouse that is used to cover the planting beds is smaller it takes less heat to maintain the proper temperature inside. That means you do not have to spend in a large heater or incur large heating bills to pull this off.

Two other tips that can of course pay off are; use a tired planting bed so you can plant more is less space and; if you do not want to use a planting bed, try it with containers that are at least 9 to 12 inches deep. Either way, having lettuce and spinach and other of course grown herbs and produce fresh from the yard is a great feeling and worth the effort.

Using Raised Planting Beds to Grow Your Own Food Year-Round

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