Vegetable Gardening with Raised Beds

Bringing your vegetable garden up off the ground not only makes it more accessible, raised beds are easier to manage and often produce higher yields. They're especially ideal for South Florida, where the soil can be thin and rocky. Best of all, it's simple to create your own.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Vegetable Gardening in South Central Florida

UF/IFAS Publications

• A Guide to Raised-Bed Gardening in Miami-Dade (PDF)
• Minigardening

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Fall Vegetable Gardening
• Fertilizing Your Vegetable Garden
• Maintaining the Vegetable Garden
• Renovating Your Flower and Vegetable Gardens
• Spring Vegetable Gardening
• Vegetable Gardening: Introduction
• Vegetable Gardens from Seed

Other Sites

• Block Style Layout in Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens--Colorado State University Extension (PDF)
• Build a Raised Bed--University of Illinois Extension
• How-to Video: Making a Raised Garden Bed--National Gardening Association
• In Praise of Raised Beds--Galveston County (Texas) Master Gardener Program
• Raised Bed Gardening--Ohio State University Extension
• Raised Bed Gardening--University of Missouri Extension
• Vegetable Gardening in Raised Beds--Chesapeake Home Magazine
• Vegetable Gardening: Raised Beds Help Problem Areas--Mississippi State University Extension Service
• Therapeutic Gardening: Creating Raised Bed Planters--Iowa State University Extension (PDF)