After almost 5 years, we have decide to convert some of the garden sections to raised beds.  After the crazy heavy rains and flooding we have had… we have lost potatoes in the ground and other crops due to the soaking wet ground…we are going to try some raised beds.  This way, the roots and root crops will at least be out of the standing water logged ground.

Another reason is the maintenance.  We have been spending way too much time weeding, since everything is on ground level so the runners for both grass and weeds get to crossing over into the growing row and we simply can’t keep up.  So the raised beds should help with keeping the beds cleaner.