If you’ve ever stuck your hand into a raised garden bed on a crisp spring morning, you know the secret: it’s toasty in there! Long before your neighbors’ in-ground gardens have woken up, your raised bed is already stretching, yawning, and ready to grow. It’s like the difference between sleeping on a cold basement floor and curling up in a warm blanket near the fireplace.
Raised beds are the early risers of the gardening world—warming faster, staying warmer, and keeping plants happier for longer. But what’s really going on beneath that cozy layer of soil?
