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Medium for raised vegetable bed

15 years ago

I'm in the process of building a raised bed in which I'd like to plant tomato, arugula, cucumber, basil, parsley, and zucchini. The bed will be about 1 foot deep. I'm limited in what components I will mix together into the medium: My choices are leaf based compost, peat moss, fine pine mulch, and topsoil. My questions:

1) Can I make an adequate mixture from these materials and what ratios of each should I use?

2) Should I add lime to the mix and if so how much and what ph should I aim for?

3) I have 10-20-10 fertilizer. Should I add this to the mix and if so at what rate?

Thanks.

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