Posts tagged urban garden

Whenever we decide to start gardening we come up against challenges, usually brought about by our preconceived ideas of the way things should be.  For example, the neighbors might get annoyed by the untidy look of a permaculture garden, or perhaps instead of understanding a particular garden niche and growing something to suit the conditions, we decide to change the site to grow what we want.

Attaching the corrugated sheets. Chicken tractor and poly tunnel in the background.

The raised garden bed is something that is often used in both of these situations, to “tidy up” or make a site appear more ordered and to change the growing conditions by increasing drainage.

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