The Best Raised Garden Bed Sticks Ideas. Twigs and dried plant matter like palm fronds (this helps aerate the soil) layer 4: Starting with the cardboard box your garden bed comes in, followed by layers of logs, sticks and leaves, before topping with about 30cm depth worth of soil/potting mix.

We recommend filling in a layered technique; Web here’s a simple guide to building a raised bed that is 2.5 metres long and 1.25 metres wide, adapted from this guide by gardening australia. Three quarters of the beds are filled with branches, logs and sticks, and then back filled with composted soil from our chicken and goats and topped with mushroom compost.