Adding Soil to the Raised Garden Bed

After building the raised garden bed frame, and attaching the gopher proofing, Jason and I wrestled the box to its new location – in full sun and away from the root structure of existing trees.

For soil, I chose the Local Hero Veggie Mix from American Soil in Richmond, CA. This sandy loam blend ensures good drainage, and is fertilized and ready for planting. You can read about the Local Hero blend, and other specialty blends available for the San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.americansoil.com/soils.html.

American soil offers several options – you can buy soil in bags, or in bulk; you can use your own truck to pick up the soil from their site, or have the soil delivered to your site. After doing some calculations and weighing the pros and cons, I decided to pay American Soil to deliver the soil in bulk on our driveway, and to provide the woman-power to move all that soil into the raised garden bed.

It took two of us to excavate dirt for the posts,
and move the garden box to its new location.
We used a level to determine its final positioning.

Future proofing - we planned to irrigate using a hose system,
and drip irrigation. But wanted to build in the
potential to tap in to the existing sprinkler system.

American Soil delivered the soil to our driveway in bulk.

We added the soil to the raised garden bed,
and filled in the post holes.

The raised bed is almost ready for planting. Next time - adding irrigation to the raised garden bed.