Planting My First Garden

[thebayratt]

I made one of my raised beds with a 2x8s. Put a mixture of potting soil, cow manure, peat humus, and some ash from my burn barrel. I don't use any of that "fancy" soil (Ie: miracle grow, jungle dirt, etc....) its all cost and wood bark. I mixed them together and put in a real light sprinkle of 8-8-8 or plant/vegetable fertilizer. Mixed them togther and watered it thuroughly. I did all this a few weeks before I planted to I didn't burn the plants with the fertilizer.
I did break up the grass and tilled it in and pulled alot of it out and put it in the burn barrel to burn off then use the ashes in the garden.