Raised beds:-

Growing Vegetables in Raised Beds

Raised beds are also known as deep beds, and though organic gardeners didn’t invent them they know the true value of them.

For large or small gardens, for vegetables, flowers or a mixture of both, deep beds are ideal. You’ll be surprised what you can grow in it.

They are usually double dug when they are first made, so as to give a good depth of workable soil.

Green Manuring

Green manuring is a technique which goes back at least 3000 years, and until relatively recently European interest in it centered on the Mediterranean. Whilst it is mainly used in vegetable or crop rotations it can also be used in initial preparation of ornamental beds, lawns etc.

Recent interest in green manuring has developed as organic gardening and farming have taken on a more 'scientific' slant centered on the need to replenish organic matter in soils impoverished by chemical fertilisation.