Many gardeners who are interested in making raised beds have asked; what is the best material to use for framing the garden beds? My preference is to use nothing as a frame for the beds, but if you insist there are a number of materials that work well when making raised beds.
The most popular choice [...]

Straw mulches can serve many beneficial functions in the home garden. Straw is inexpensive and readily obtainable from garden centers, or even more economically from local farmers. Just be sure to purchase straw rather than hay, since the latter is more likely to contain weed seeds.
Straw is an organic material that breaks down slowly and [...]

Ten of Kenny Point’s pointers on growing a higher yielding and better looking vegetable garden with less work:
1.) Raise those beds. Loosen your native soil two shovel-lengths deep (if possible) and work 3 or 4 inches of compost or other organic matter into it. Use stakes and string to mark off beds that are about [...]

(From the Harrisburg Patriot-News, August 18, 2005)
Take one look at Kenny Point’s vegetable garden, and it’s obvious he’s doing something right. And different.
This suburban Lower Paxton Township back-yard garden is a far cry from the fairly typical vegetable garden you see this time of year - ones that have degenerated into ignored, sprawling, weed-infested, groundhog-chewed, [...]