How to Fill a Raised Garden Bed for FREE!

Instead of buying expensive soil, I filled this garden bed organically with stuff I had lying around!

Here’s the free recipe:
🟫 Cardboard — weed blocker + worm buffet
🌿 Old sticks — drainage + spongey structure (the older, the better)
🍂 Dried leaves — quick compost, full of microbes
🌱 Aged compost — about 6 inches of plant fuel
🌍 Native topsoil — so my plants get a taste of the neighborhood 😉

Bonus: I dug a hole next to the bed and dropped in my cold compost bin, now worms can crawl right in and feast!

No bags. No budget. Just backyard scraps and a little soil magic.

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