Several years ago my wife and I decided we had the space in our backyard to do a raised bed garden. Prior to that, we had planted several gardens in the linear fashion directly on the ground. After reading about raised bed gardening it seemed to be a good thing for us to do. Our soil in Missouri is rather hard and a lot of clay. Tilling was a beast at times. It seemed no matter how many times I tilled a spot, it was never deep enough or fine enough to get a good yield. In addition, we added some fertilizer to garden area but really never did it "right" to get the maximum benefit. As you can see from this picture, we now have 4 "squares" that measure 4'X4' in the middle. We also have 4, "L" shaped beds on the outside of each square. They measure 1' across in both directions. To build all of the beds I used deck boards.
The depth of the beds is 8". This gives a good depth for most home vegetable gardening. Over the years we have filled the beds with regular dirt, top soil, some potting soil, mixtures of the same and added fertilizer. Over the past 2 years we have used mostly potting soil mixture (commercial) and added our own compost.
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