Filling Raised Beds

Community Community General Gardening Sowing and Growing Filling Raised Beds

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #31931
    plantmark
    Participant

    I have built some raised beds 450mm high. I have a plentiful supply of well rotted horse manure with no straw or wood chip. Would it be wise to fill my beds with this or should I add some topsoil?

    #31933
    charles
    Moderator

    That is deep beds and if you fill them with organic matter only, such as compost/manure, the level will sink within a year to three quarters or less, depending how much you squash it in (I would walk on top). So I would look to fill halfway with soil, then compost t/manure on top.

    #31963
    plantmark
    Participant

    Thank you for that Charles.

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Forum Info

Registered Users
35,010
Forums
10
Topics
2,940
Replies
10,416
Topic Tags
567
Empty Topic Tags
2,261