Opinions for a raised bed for vegetables for next season?

I think you should be able to grow just about anything you like, in 10" of well amended soil. Raised beds are the only way to garden, on a small scale, in my opinion.

I don't like seeing the concrete underneath. First of all, don't leave the garden over the concrete in winter. Trapped moisture will freeze and take the top off the concrete.....I learned that with wine barrel planters.

Second, roots of your larger plants like tomatoes, peppers, etc really want to go down as well as out.

That said, there is still plenty you can grows, beans, radish, greens, maybe squash, beets. If you want to try potatoes, think UP. You can build a cage round the potato and grandually add soil and ground up dry plant material. Do a search for potato growing alternatives.

Vegetables need to be rotated for success and to help the soil from being depleted from all the nutrients needed. Adding worms to the bed and feeding it cornmeal will help. Add vegetable trimmings etc and compost.

Strawberries have a shallow root system and can be grown year round if protected during winter, they will come back year after year. You can also put them in hanging baskets and they can be taken in during winter months and kept under grow lights. They will produce year round.

To save space, potatoes can be started in a 36 inch round wire cage or simple can with out the bottom. place loose dirt and straw in bottom, add potatoes and cover with dirt, each time potatoes have new leaves cover with dirt leaving one to three leaves exposed. At the end of the season, pull wire up and harvest from bottom up

Squash and tomatoes do better with space and allowing for good root system. 10 inch's will work, just space well for ample production. You can also plant potatoes under tomatoes and the potatoes will be harvested after the tomatoes come in.

If you can get it cotton trash mulch, sand, horse manure, pellet lime, and 12 12 12 fertilizer. 3 parts cotton trash, one part sand, apply the lime about 15 lbs, up to 5 shovels of poo, and be careful with the fertilizer. If you cannot get cotton trash any good leaf compost will be good.

Will work fine...! Save me some tomatoes & strawberries. Good luck...!

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