Raised Bed Gardening Facts

These are great for raised bed vegetable gardening and flower gardens. You can have them any shape imaginable, you can make them yourself or purchase a raised bed garden kit commercially –whatever suits you.

The idea is to raise the garden bed above the actual soil level – this saves your back from heavy work, eases drainage problems, helps reduce pests such as snails, allows for a longer growing time and stops any soil compaction as you never have to walk over the actual garden.

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The sides for Raised Bed Gardening can be made from many products.

They are great for small plots where you could grow vegetables and or flowers.

You can plant closer together as you don’t have to make space for walking over the garden, ALL of the space is for planting.

You may find, as I do that the plants grow much faster and larger in these gardens.

The temperature of the soil is warmer so you have a longer growing time – maybe this is why a lot of people from Canada and Alaska buy this ebook.

This style is suitable to use with the square foot gardening method as well.

They help reduce weeding as all of the soil is new and uncontaminated with weeds to begin with. Because you use the No Dig Garden process to fill the Raised Garden Bed you have increased the value of your soil, making it much easier to grow very healthy plants.

It is also easier to keep slugs and snails off the actual garden as you have the sides of the Raised Garden Bed as a barrier.

It is easier to treat the soil with any mulch etc as it is contained within the barriers of the Raised Garden Bed.

They certainly prevent soil compaction as the beds are designed so that you do not have to walk over the garden bed.

You can certainly monitor the soil conditions and make changes when appropriate more easily as it is a smaller and more easily controlled area.

You normally get much better drainage as the garden is raised up off the ground level, this is an asset for those who have water soaked soil such as Florida and Cairns.

A massive benefit for those of us living in drought conditions as I do. I only watered my garden for the first two weeks during a very hot summer and it still thrived.

You only have to water the actual garden itself, no water is wasted on the exterior i.e. path or surrounding lawn, this is a huge issue for those of us on water restrictions – not one drop of water is wasted

There is also the benefit for your back as you don’t have to strain and stretch over the garden to tend it.

The design allows for easy reaching – never straining or heavy stretching so you don’t get muscle cramps or injury.

The garden is very compact so you don’t have to be carrying heavy items to it on a regular basis – once it is set up you have a relatively maintenance free garden.

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