Martha Stewart Grows Vegetables On Raised Beds—Here's Why

03.05.2024 - 14:19 / thespruce.com / Martha Stewart / Christianna Silva

Martha Stewart is the queen of many things: cooking, baking, decorating, aging with style, being best friends with Snoop Dogg, and, of course, gardening. She has written books on gardening and consistently notes that April is a great month for getting to work on your vegetable garden.

“My large new vegetable garden is so much fun to visit right now because of all the growing produce—here’s something new popping up every day,” Stewart wrote in her blog in 2023.

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She has been known to grow her vegetables in the ground but, as part of a 2024 Miracle-Gro event to introduce the new Miracle-Gro Organic Raised Bed & Garden Soil, she noted that there’s a different method that might work even better: raised garden beds. She said the raised beds keep her vegetables organized and prevent over-planting, which can cause some vegetables to overshadow others.

“Last year, I changed my whole attitude towards vegetable gardening,” Stewart said at the event. “I'm not going to eat more than a cabbage a week...so, don't plant anymore. Plant something else.”

She, with the help of her head gardener Ryan McCallister, planted vegetables in 56 large raised beds, according to Stewart’s website.

“We had artichokes in a month and a half. We had 10-pound cabbages within two months. I couldn't believe what was happening in this garden,” Stewart said. “We had a crop of asparagus the first year—you never have that. They tell you to wait three years before those roots will produce asparagus.”

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Raised beds can be a bit of a learning curve to set up. You either have to buy them pre-built or build them yourself, and there are a few things you need to consider when gardening with them that you might not