Our new place has a little postage stamp of a backyard. Part of it is landscaped, and we want to keep that. But part of it is kind of sad-looking grass, and I want to turn the whole grass patch into a little garden. Who of the people I'm reading here can I pick the brains of for figuring out how to do that? I don't want a garden this year, but do want one next year, and I'm happy to do things this summer to make that more likely.
I think that depends on your soil, largely. In Florida I would never try to plant directly in the sand that comprises our whole property, but at our homestead we have amazing edge-of-forest soil, and we're planning a bit of both raised and in ground.
To be clear, I haven't tried these, but when I was asking here once about how to make raised beds, I got quite a few good suggestions(I think) from aircrete with forms to things like this amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H5G3CC8/
I haven't fully figured out how we're doing our raised beds yet, either, so maybe you'll get some ideas we haven't thought about yet, too.
@BE Wonderful! I look forward to exchanging ideas, then. ❤️
@IPEdmonton @BE raised beds can be as easy as putting some recycled railway sleepers down to give you that extra depth
@IPEdmonton @BE long chunks of roughly rectangular in cross section wood.
Often cheap.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sleeper+raised+bed&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
@BE That's one of my open questions. It's small enough that I could do the whole thing as two big raised beds with a path down the middle, I think. Or I could do it in the ground. What do you think would be better? I would have to get someone to build the raised beds if we go that route, and probably won't have money for that until next spring, in case that would be too late.