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Here is advice on how to build a raised garden bed for your backyard. Raised garden beds are fairly easy to construct and even easier to maintain.

• Easier access and more comfortable gardening, due to less bending and kneeling
• Greater productivity, producing higher yield for the area thanks to better drainage and deep rooting
• Ideal for smaller spaces (versus a conventional row garden)
• Overcomes rocky, poor, or abused soil by creating the ideal growing mix
• Allows for a longer growing season, since you can work the soil more quickly in the spring in frost-hardened regions
• Makes gardening easier; for example, intensive planting creates shade

Sourced from almanac.com.  Visit http://www.almanac.com/content/how-build-raised-garden-bed for more in-depth details.