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Is it best to grow vegetables in raised boxes? Best for the vegetables? Best for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I grow my vegetables in the ground in my current garden, growing in raised boxes might be right for you. I’ll go through the pros and cons of growing vegetables in raised boxes, mostly in comparison to growing in the ground, with the hope that it will help you choose the best setup for your situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAISED BOXES: pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the advantages of raised boxes are related to being in total control of the medium in which your vegetables will grow, plus more easily preventing damage from certain pests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boxes can be filled with an awesome growing medium. You can buy a rich mix that has fast drainage in which any vegetable will grow to its full potential. So it doesn’t matter what the dirt in your yard is like — slow draining, shallow, low fertility, heavy clay, super sandy, doesn’t matter. You get to create the optimum environment for your plants’ roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My aunt’s vegetable garden boxes in Encinitas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The mix should also not contain any micro-organisms that cause diseases in vegetables, such as root-knot nematodes or verticillium wilt fungi. That’s a big advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There should be no weed seeds in the raised-box mix either. Brick paths, as shown above, and gravel paths, as shown below, around the boxes can further reduce the introduction of weed seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A friend’s boxes full of broccoli in San Diego.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If the boxes are high enough, they can make gardening activities easier on your back and knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also if the boxes are high enough, rabbits cannot get to the vegetables. Two feet up is high enough for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOT high enough: these garden boxes I saw in Vancouver, Washington have beautiful cosmos flowers but will not prevent rabbit damage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To prevent gophers from entering, you can line the bottom of a box with hardware cloth. You can also raise the box off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden box raised off the ground in Vista; no chance for rabbit or gopher damage here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can incorporate structures for plant support or protection, such as shade covers, nets, and trellises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden boxes with trellises, waiting for plants to climb on them, at a school garden in Kearny Mesa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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MY VEGETABLES: in the ground<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if I haven’t convinced you yet, I have just convinced myself that growing vegetables in raised boxes sounds ideal. Listen to all of those advantages! Raised boxes solve so many problems. Then why do I grow my vegetables in the ground?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carrots and lettuce, in the ground in my vegetable beds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My yard has ideal soil. It is a sandy loam with excellent drainage. When we were house shopping, my wife went inside to look at the kitchens and bedrooms while I walked the land and grabbed handfuls of dirt. All I cared about was how well the property could grow food. Raised boxes offer fewer advantages if you are standing on good dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, my yard is sloped, and it takes extra work to build boxes when there’s much slope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My vegetable beds are all running north and south on the contour of the yard’s slope toward the east (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also wanted our young children to have total access to the vegetables. Boxes raised high enough to prevent rabbit damage are too high for a two year old to reach in and harvest carrots. You can’t have it both ways. I chose access for the kids as the priority. This is also why I’ve never put fencing around our vegetable area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prevent this? I would never.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RAISED BOXES: cons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those are a few of the reasons I chose to grow my vegetables right in the native soil rather than build boxes. Here are a few other negatives about using raised boxes, most of which have to do with the initial costs and labor involved in creating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You must buy the boxes and install them or buy the materials to create the boxes (wood, concrete, metal, whatever).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concrete boxes at the Carpinteria Community Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You must buy a mix to fill the boxes unless you have good native soil that you can excavate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raised boxes need to be maintained, especially those built with wood. They eventually bulge, warp, and rot. I’ve seen the hardware cloth preventing gophers sometimes fail and need patching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raised boxes require more frequent watering. This is because they’re always filled with mixes that drain faster than actual dirt. The necessity of frequent watering can be a challenge if you live inland where summers are hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden boxes with pop-up sprinklers at a school garden in San Juan Capistrano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I grow my vegetables right in the ground mostly because my soil is good, my yard is sloped, and I want my kids to have easy access to all the food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if my yard were fairly flat and my soil was not good in some way (shallow, very rocky, very clayey, slow draining), or if it gave my body trouble to tend to a garden at ground level, then I would definitely build raised boxes in which to grow my vegetables. Raised boxes offer lots of benefits that can make them worth their cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good mixes for raised boxes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve seen many different mixes work well in raised boxes so there certainly isn\u2019t one recipe that everyone should use. Some nurseries and garden centers sell bulk mixes for garden boxes that are cheaper and work very well so if you have a place like that near you, try what they offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise, you can purchase bags of mixes. In my experience, the best mixes that you can buy in bags are:
EB Stone\u2019s Recipe 420<\/a> and G&B\u2019s Blue Ribbon Blend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would also consider mixing in some \u201ctopsoil,\u201d which is usually a sandy loam type of dirt, or even some other kind of real dirt. This is because the dirt adds minerals and gives the mix more density and better water-holding capacity. A topsoil blend that you can buy in bags that I\u2019ve used is EB Stone\u2019s Topsoil Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(The art at the top of the page was created by my eight-year-old son, Cass.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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