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You should choose a sunny spot for your vegetable garden. The most valuable is the afternoon sun. If the part of the garden designated for vegetables only gets sunshine from 1 p.m., it will still be a good choice. You don't have to dig up the area for growing vegetables. If the soil is very compacted by walking, you can loosen it slightly by sticking in a gardening fork and moving it around a bit. Don't dig over! The raised bed should be 120 cm wide. It will allow good access to the plants from both sides. The border is made of pine boards with a cross section of 50x200 mm (in my case, these were boards with a cross section of 70x200 mm). Cardboard was spread on the bottom of the bed. There is no agrotextile there! I put unsifted compost on the cardboard, and on top as a second layer, sifted compost. Raised beds should only be filled with composted organic matter: compost, composted manure, composted sawdust, composted wood chips or bark. They do not need to be filled in their entirety. A few centimetres of living organic matter will be enough to grow vegetables on them. The cardboard will soon decompose, attracting a group of earthworms, and the roots of the vegetables will cope with it by burrowing into the ground. In the first year, I do not recommend growing root vegetables with long roots, such as carrots, parsley or parsnips, on such a new bed. 0:00 why now? 0:44 where in the vegetable garden? 1:09 what about the turf? 4:53 what boards, what size of boxes? 10:08 remove agrotextile 10:41 cardboard down 12:43 what and how to fill it? 19:30 no dig bed 21:47 what plants will be in the new beds Contact: [email protected] Subscribe to our YT channel: / @naturalnieoogrodach --------------- What is this channel "Naturally about gardens"? We talk about natural, ecological, useful, rural, urban and English gardens. We promote and encourage you to garden ecologically, in harmony with nature, without chemicals. We also recommend Katarzyna's vlog: / @katarzynabellingham3991 #naturalnieoogrodach #nodig