Raised bed boxes are a great idea for the home gardener too! Lower maintenance with less weeds and easier to work in (less bending over). You can grow a TON of food in a small space, and provide unlimited healthy food for your family with some planning and determination. GL 🤙
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That’s exactly what we’re thinking. We have this steep dirt hill in our backyard that makes about 40% of the yard unusable. We were thinking of putting raised beds there and a gravel or mulch walking path with stairs between them.
I hacked down a huge sugargum tree this summer to make some room for it. (Cutting down trees is so much work and I never want to do that again.)
Something to consider: Raised beds need to be filled with new soil annually, and don't offer frost protection the way "in-ground" planting does.
If you have a hillside with sun, making a terrace, or several, is a better long term solution.