Category Archives: Raised Bed Gardening

You can improve your garden and the food it produces by ensuring you have high quality soil deep enough for the veggies you’re planting.
At Backyard Boxes, our raised garden boxes have a planting depth of 10″, 16″ or 23″.

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Paige Payne, the founder and lead landscape designer at Online Landscape Designs based out of Montrose, CO. Paige seeks to enhance people’s lives by connecting them to the natural world through outdoor spaces.⁠ We are excited that our organic friendly,natural cedar garden boxes will be an option to her customers as will our eco-friendly poly whey stains and sealers from Vermont Natural Coatings. 

Raised garden beds have skyrocketed in popularity in the post-covid era. The desire to grow your own food and be relatively self sufficient is on the minds of many. Though we believe raised beds are the best way to go, here is a list of pros and cons to help you decide whether raised beds are right for you.

What do raised beds, horticulture therapy and the flint hills have in common? Read more to find out how a trip to Denver, and some Backyard Boxes furthered Tara’s journey back to her family and horticultural roots.

Planting Cover Crops in Raised Beds Planting cover crops in your raised beds might just be the best thing for your garden that you’re not doing, but should be.  Curious what a cover crop is, why you should be planting them and when?  Read on for more info on this natural way to replenish yourContinueContinue reading “Planting Cover Crops in Raised Beds”

Do I need to seal my garden box?  Can I stain or paint it? These are excellent questions that we get all the time.  There are a wide variety of products available today that can be applied to wood to help it look its best.  Here we’ll go into a few of them and talkContinueContinue reading “Protect Your Cedar Garden Box”