Your beds look great!!! My wife is a 4-H leader in Southern Illinois. We planted a community garden in 1999 and donate all the food to our local food pantry...25,000 pounds and growing. We started out with clay soil and had a traditional garden...lots of tilling, weeding and hoeing. We have amended the soil over the years, and finally had some great soil. Then my wife wanted to try raised garden beds to 1) reduce the amount of hoeing, weeding and tilling and 2) raise more food for the pantry by planting plants closer together. I built 8 4x8 raised beds out of cedar - lucked out and knew someone who had some cedar trees blown down during a huge storm. So, last year was the first time we planted in the beds. I laid geotextile fabric around the beds and in the walkways and mulched on top of the fabric. We filled the beds with 1/3 mushroom compost, 2/3 topsoil and added some peat moss. Of course the weather last year wasn't conducive to a good gardening season, and it was the worst garden we ever had. The plants all were light green in color (lack of nitrogen) and had no root system at all. We planted 16 tomato plants and they did not produce. We did add some 12-12-12 to the garden soil last year. This year we amended the soil with some cow manure compost from our farm. The plants are looking healthy with nice color and growing nicely. So far so good. I was just wondering with your 20 years of experience with raised gardens, what type of soil did you put in your beds, and how do you amend it each year? We do rotate our plants in the beds each year. Thanks for any feedback in advance. gwece
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