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- Consciously place the raised bed in the garden as a privacy screen
- Combine the pleasant with the useful
- Improve the visual protection factor of the raised bed by skilful landscape planning
- These high vegetables make the raised bed a seasonal screen
- Tips
With high-growth vegetables, the raised bed also protects from view
Consciously place the raised bed in the garden as a privacy screen
If a garden is to be enclosed with a privacy screen or subdivided into different garden areas, the choice is usually made on stone walls, sight hedges and more modern materials such as Plexiglas. Under certain circumstances, however, a raised bed can also provide the desired visual blockage and at the same time high yields for the vegetable harvest.
Combine the pleasant with the useful
As in almost all areas of life, gardening also applies: skilful planning makes life easier and, in many cases, can easily kill two birds with one stone. More and more gardeners are relying on raised beds to bring their vegetables to safety from the voracious snails. Growing vegetables in the raised bed offers even more advantages:
With a clever choice of location, raised beds can fulfill a function in the garden beyond their practical purpose. Typically made of wood raised beds with an average height of about 1.20 m can be used in the right place as a screen for the terrace, the pool or a seating area.
Improve the visual protection factor of the raised bed by skilful landscape planning
The visual protection factor through a raised bed is basically limited by the height of the raised bed. But of course there are ways to maximize the privacy effect of raised beds with an interesting landscaping in the garden. For raised beds are simply placed in a naturally or artificially increased by Erdaufschüttung garden area. Conversely, however, a sitting area behind the raised bed can be integrated into the garden in such a way that a deepening of the floor at the spot creates a particularly private corner for relaxing in the fresh air.
These high vegetables make the raised bed a seasonal screen
The visual protection factor of a raised bed does not have to end at the upper edge of the respective raised bed material. During the gardening season, you can use your raised bed as a sight screen hedge as a high visual protection, if they grow accordingly high-growing vegetables such as leek, cabbage or Brussels sprouts.
Tips
On the inside of your raised bed, insert trellis into the soil and green it with beans. You can also relax this natural screening variant with annual climbing plants such as the climbing nasturtium.