{"id":1062,"date":"2014-04-27T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2015-11-21T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T03:35:57","slug":"how-to-make-a-garden-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-garden-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Garden Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What you will need to make a Garden Bed:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Garden Hose<\/li>\n<li>Flour or marking Paint<\/li>\n<li>Sod Cutter (optional)<\/li>\n<li>Sharp Spade<\/li>\n<li>Garden Rake<\/li>\n<li>Compost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-make-a-garden-bed.jpg\" target=\"\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1066\" title=\"How to Make a Garden Bed\" src=\"http:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-make-a-garden-bed.jpg\" alt=\"How to Make a Garden Bed\" width=\"830\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-make-a-garden-bed.jpg 900w, https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-make-a-garden-bed-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-make-a-garden-bed-751x500.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Step 1 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using a garden hose, outling the shape of your garden bed.\u00a0 Strive for a shape that allows easy access to plant rows.\u00a0 Mark the shape of the bed with flour or marking paint and remove the hose.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Step 2 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remove the sod with the help of a sod cutter or a sharp spade.\u00a0 Work diligently to remove the turf&#8217;s entire root zone.\u00a0 This will make for minimal weeding later in the season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Loosen the soil in the garden bed with a spade.\u00a0 Sink the spade into the top 6-8 inches of soil and turn it over.\u00a0 Use the spade to break up clods as you go.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Step 4 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spread a 2 inch layer of well-decomposed compost over the entire garden bed.\u00a0 Use a spade to mix the compost into the top 6 inches of garden soil.\u00a0 Rake the mixture smooth in preparation for planting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you will need to make a Garden Bed: Garden Hose Flour or marking Paint Sod Cutter (optional) Sharp Spade Garden Rake Compost Step 1 Using a garden hose, outling the shape of your garden bed.\u00a0 Strive for a shape that allows easy access to plant rows.\u00a0 Mark the shape of the bed with flour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,126,194,159,20,27],"tags":[278,277,275,276],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-exterior","category-home-gardens","category-home-tips-tricks","category-out-door-tips","category-spring-home-tips","category-summer-home-tips","tag-five-steps-garden-bed","tag-garden-bed-how-to","tag-gardening","tag-how-to-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hottapsparky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}