Gardener Scott’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening

Imagine growing thriving vegetable plants, fragrant herb gardens, robust perennials and stunning annuals. It’s time to think inside the box -- one that’s filled with good-quality soil teeming with beneficial soil organisms, that is.

Raised bed gardening is a wildly popular method that gardeners everywhere can take advantage of, no matter your space or the quality of your native soil. Raised bed gardening has numerous benefits for both the beginner and expert gardener, but chief among those is the ability to build the best soil for your plants. Gardener Scott’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening is a no-fuss, step-by-step guide to planning, building and growing in your first raised bed. With his signature approachable, easy-to-follow style, YouTube’s Gardener Scott shepherds you through every stage of creating a thriving, productive raised bed garden -- from the crucial planning phases where you’ll consider the design and how you’re going to use your raised bed, to building your first raised bed, filling it with soil and growing your dream garden. The book features:

• Seven detailed, step-by-step building projects to try at home
• Excellent advice on building good soil and creating the best soil blends for your raised bed
• Information on garden planning, including successional planting and intensive planting
• Expert recommendations on growing and garden maintenance, such as watering, weeding, trellising and harvesting
• Advice for protecting your plants from the wrath of pests, diseases and extreme weather
• Guidance on planning and maintaining your garden year-round
• Money-saving tips and informative features.

Gardener’s Scott’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening is replete with hundreds of beautiful photos that will both instruct and inspire as you explore the wonderful world of raised bed gardening.

Scott A. Wilson, better known as YouTube’s Gardener Scott, is a Colorado-based Master Gardener. Scott’s videos have drummed up millions of views and he has more than 400,000 YouTube subscribers. A retired U.S. Air Force Command Pilot, Scott began teaching gardening classes for the Master Gardener program in 2004 and has educated thousands of gardeners since. For four and a half years, beginning in 2014, he oversaw the development of 105 raised garden beds and 20,000 square feet of garden space for the Galileo Garden Project in Colorado Springs, teaching hundreds of students about gardening and growing more than 2,000 pounds of produce for the school district each year.