The wooden sides of my very old raised vegetable beds have been growing more wobbly by the minute. But like with any big job, I’ve been putting off starting over and building new ones—as if my magical thinking (a.k.a. procrastination) would make it all better or something. Want to guess how that’s working?

Well, when I saw early this year that my friend Joe Lamp’l – who has a far bigger, more ambitious layout of raised beds than mine – had dug in and redone his when they reached a similar point of no return …. and that the results were both beautiful and bountiful….  it helped me get unstuck.  I talked to Joe about the choices he made, from building materials to the soil mix he filled the new beds with and more.

Joe, also known as Joe Gardener, has been teaching others to garden for many years on television, and in podcasts, books and more. He was the longtime host of the public TV show “Growing a Greener World,” and today hosts the popular “Joe Gardener Podcast,” is author of “The Vegetable Gardening Book,” and also the creator of the Online Gardening Academy of courses in all facets of organic gardening. In between juggling all that, Joe found time to rebuild his extensive raised-bed vegetable garden.

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