Raised Vegetable Garden

“Plants like tomatoes like full sun. Cool-weather crops like spinach and lettuce do alright in partial shade. If it gets too hot in full sun, it will ruin those plants. They do alright for a while. Cool-weather crops can be planted 2-3 weeks before the last frost. Other crops have to wait until all danger of frost has passed. You can also plant a fall harvest for lettuce and spinach. You could get a truck load of topsoil, but they sell bags of top soil fairly cheap at home centers. Potting soil costs more, but a heavy bag of top soil is only a couple of bucks or so. It sounds good that you are diverting the runoff around the garden. The traditional way to garden is to take two wooden stakes and string a line between them across the garden to mark each row.”