Spring TX raised bed gardening - Thanks Randy Lemmon!

Shortly after moving to Spring TX we were introduced to the book Gulf Coast Gardening by Randy Lemmon.  We have lived in 4 different states and one of the things we have learned along the way is to plant according to what plants are native to the area.  We started listening to Randy Lemmon's garden-line Saturday mornings on 740AM and ended up purchasing his book Gulf Coast Gardening.  His book is now tattered and dog eared but has helped us to find plants that are native to our area.

We have heard Randy Lemmon talk about raised bed gardening for years but kept putting it off.  For our fall garden we finally started our raised beds.  We intend to make 5 raised beds but to start off we made two.  (We probably would have done all 5 but I wasn't ready to give up my okra).  I figured two beds were enough for my winter garden. 

We decided on a very simple process.  We bought untreated wood and my husband put them together.  On Randy Lemmon's advice we put layers of newspaper before we put our soil in the beds.  I can attest to this helping with the weed problem. Randy recommended using two parts Rose soil and one part organic compost but we found that to be a bit expensive so we decided to use a garden mix.

 

I am AMAZED at the difference I am seeing between the plants in the raised beds and the plants that are not in raised beds.  I found that I had more plants than I had room in the raised beds so I planted the same plants in the beds that were not raised.  You can look and see the difference for yourself.  We are already eating bib lettuce from the raised bed gardens but the bib lettuce in the regular garden isn't ready yet.  I thinks sometimes a picture speaks louder than a thousand words and I'm now a big proponent of raised bed gardening.

Randy Lemmon was recently at our local Ace Hardware to answer questions and sign books.  I wrote a post about it at The Woodlands Ace Hardware - Customer appreciation Day!! I had thought about thanking him for his raised bed gardening advice but the line to talk to him was long so this post will have to suffice as my thank you.  

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