This question came up in my glog post --
I'm putting in raised beds in my yard to grow peppers (2 5x5 foot beds, 1 3x6 foot bed). I'm making the beds using 7-inch redwood fencepost material, so I currently have 2 boards per side (14 inches tall).
I was planning on filling the beds to about 10 inches, but is that enough? Should I nail a third board up (21 inches) and then add more soil -- how much?
The beds will be sitting directly over bare soil, but the native soil is very poor (full of rocks and clay, and I don't have a tiller). I'm trying to avoid digging down into the soil (because it's difficult to do so), even if that means I need to build up the bed higher.
Here's a photo of the two 5x5 beds:
I'm putting in raised beds in my yard to grow peppers (2 5x5 foot beds, 1 3x6 foot bed). I'm making the beds using 7-inch redwood fencepost material, so I currently have 2 boards per side (14 inches tall).
I was planning on filling the beds to about 10 inches, but is that enough? Should I nail a third board up (21 inches) and then add more soil -- how much?
The beds will be sitting directly over bare soil, but the native soil is very poor (full of rocks and clay, and I don't have a tiller). I'm trying to avoid digging down into the soil (because it's difficult to do so), even if that means I need to build up the bed higher.
Here's a photo of the two 5x5 beds: