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Raised Bed Depth?

18 years ago

I was just wondering how deep most of you make your raised beds? In the book it says only 6" is required but that seems rather shallow to me. I've made one 12" deep bed and one 6" deep bed. Do you think 6" is really enough?

Thanks!

Aimee

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