Raised Bed Gardening

Raised bed gardening offers another way to do your gardening. As against the normal form of gardening where you just sow seeds all over a wide area, raised bed gardening employs several separate 'raised beds' of extra soil in which the seeds are sown. Each 'raised bed' is a portion of land where the soil is raised above the ground level. The bed is normally enclosed by a short boundary wall made of either concrete, wood or any other material.

 

The logic behind raised bed gardening is that it offers an opportunity to create a microclimate at each raised bed depending on the type of plant to be planted at that bed. The soil, mixed with compost, used in a raised bed can be changed after every harvest and when new seeds are sown so that the soil is always rich in nutrients. Also, employing small, separate raised beds means that the gardener can access al his plants without actually walking on the soil which means the soil will not be compacted. Most people employ raised beds with a 4 x 4 feet area. These raised beds are also used in square foot gardening where these beds are further divided into smaller areas.

 

Some beds are even made waist high which makes watering and tending to the plants easier for the old and weak by eliminating the need for bending over the plants. Raise beds also reduce weeding since weeds cannot spread across separate beds. Raised bed gardening is especially useful in places where the soil quality is very poor.

 

Besides, all these advantages, raised bed gardening also adds to the beauty of a garden by giving it a neat and well organized look. Owing to all these advantages, raised bed gardening has been embraced by a lot of gardeners and this form of gardening has gained a lot of popularity of late.

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