[Califreak]

I’m older with a very bad back.

Those tall raised beds sure look good to me!

Filling them is very expensive if you have no available soil in your yard that’s for sure-even if your beds are shallow.

I wonder if a person could use straw to stretch store bought topsoil?

Since it breaks down pretty fast whatever is in the bed would have to be replenished or topped off.

Piles of manure and straw have made my awful clay soil workable. It used to just be hard like a rock.

[Blurb2350]

You might want to think about repurposing livestock troughs or bunk feeders -- they're all the rage these days among backyard gardeners. My local Tractor Supply has bunk feeders in all sorts of lengths.



Or you could use metal water troughs up on some sort of sturdy platform -- maybe made of heavy metal pipes -- at a comfortable height for you. These also come in a wide variety of lengths and depths.