My Raised Bed Garden Kit has Improved Gardening for Me!
A few years ago I hurt my back and since then have had to be careful about what I do; for instance, I can’t shovel the driveway anymore (oh darn.) Okay so maybe that wasn’t a big sacrifice but what was a big sacrifice was I was no longer able to bend over to tend to my garden! Going without fresh salad fixins simply was not going to sit well with me so I had to find a solution and boy did I. I purchased a 4 x 4 x 2 Raised Bed Garden Kit and it has worked wonders! The thing that makes this particular raised bed work so well is that it has a rail around the top that I can sit on while planting, weeding and picking, so my back doesn’t suffer. My wife (the one who does the shoveling now) was very happy with the color choices available so that it would match the house (apparently that’s important to women.)
One of my neighbors saw me out pulling weeds and stopped over to praise me for using a raised bed because apparently, raised beds will reduce the amount of chemicals and water I have to use. Here I was being environmentally conscious without even trying! Double the bang for your buck and consider a raised bed.