{"id":4485,"date":"2013-04-30T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:12:36","slug":"raised-bed-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/raised-bed-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Raised Bed Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130428a_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130428a_10-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"20130428a_10\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130428a_10-224x299.jpg 224w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130428a_10-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130428a_10.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe have many raised beds, all built up and modified each and every year since 2002.<br \/>\nIn 2012 they were roughly 3 courses of garden ties, maybe 9&#8243; deep.  <\/p>\n<p>That is not enough.  Preferred depth is at least 12&#8243; to give more soil to work with, better ability for water retention, more room for roots to grow, easier access to sit on the edge and weed, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So this spring we added another courses to the various raised veg beds.  We are now sitting at 12-13&#8243; for each one and in a few days will start adding a lot of dirt to top them off.  Garden mix dirt.  We&#8217;ve already added bags and bags of composted sheep manure (0.5, 0.5, 0.5), 15kgs apiece, at a rate of between 1 bag\/25ft^2 to 1 bag\/50ft^2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have many raised beds, all built up and modified each and every year since 2002. In 2012 they were roughly 3 courses of garden ties, maybe 9&#8243; deep. That is not enough. Preferred depth is at least 12&#8243; to give more soil to work with, better ability for water retention, more room for roots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}