Two apartments ago, my boyfriend and I experienced a special kind of New York City euphoria: We moved into an apartment with a small backyard. It was a very, very happy accident, and it meant we could ...

It is no surprise that raised garden beds are becoming increasingly popular, and learning the best layouts for your raised beds will maximize growing space. Raised beds have many advantages over ...

Just about everybody agrees that raised beds are the way to grow vegetables in a home garden, especially when your alleged “soil” is lousy clay or construction fill. Raised beds elevate plants up and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raised garden beds Nothing’s tastier than tomatoes picked fresh off the vine, but maintaining a vegetable garden can be hard work, ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Many who dream of a verdant horticultural paradise will, in at least one corner of the garden that swims in their mind's eye, have reserved a ...

One effective method of gardening in a spot with subpar soil is to build a raised bed, and as these videos show, they can also be built from scraps, and in a way that allows the garden beds to water ...

Raised beds can make gardening easy for a number of reasons. They warm up faster in the spring, they are easier to weed and maintain, and they give a garden a nice, organized look. Also, the soil does ...

Its self-watering feature is just the start.

Control freaks (guilty!) can sometimes have conniption fits out in the garden, where everything from the weather to the worms simply cannot be tamed. But a DIY raised garden bed? In many ways, it’s ...

If you don't have the time or inclination to build your own garden bed, raised beds are relatively inexpensive and can ultimately save you time and energy. They instantly make your garden look ...