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Originally Posted by vailpass
Anybody have experience with box gardening? Here in the Valley of the Sun the soil isn't worth a shit even if you could get a shovel in the hard-as-rock ground.
I'll have to figure out what will grow in this climate but I would very much like to grow a few fresh veggies to show my kids what a garden is.
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Yep, I use raised beds. Mine are mostly peat moss and some garden soil (my dirt was not great either) I built the boxes fairly shallow using fence slats and just let the worms come dig the soft dirt under. For a few tomatoes and some peppers, some garden stuff it works fine. My herb garden is in 'regular dirt' but with several bales of peat dug into it. They're doing great. If you have to dig hard dirt, get out the hose & run some water on it tonite and dig it tomorrow or the next day (don't dig 'mud', dig it before it turns back to concrete).