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- With these vegetables you can plant the raised bed in August
- How to plan a favorable crop rotation
- Sow in August for the autumn harvest
- Sowing for the spring harvest
- Tips
Also in August new things can be planted in the raised bed
With these vegetables you can plant the raised bed in August
July and August are the main months in the garden: As the harvesting baskets fill, the rows clear in the raised bed. Fortunately, there are still a number of vegetables that can be sown or planted for the autumn harvest.
How to plan a favorable crop rotation
A successive cultivation of different types of vegetables with different nutrient requirements on a bed for a longer time away, the gardener referred to as crop rotation. On the classically layered raised beds, starvation feeders such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage, leek or celery should be cultivated in the first two years; middle earners such as endives, tubers, kohlrabi, chard, carrots, radicchio, radish, beetroot, salsify or sugarloaf, as well as in the fourth and fifth year, weak eaters such as lamb's lettuce, lettuce, ice-cream salad, picking and sliced lettuce (oak leaf lettuce, batavia, rocket salad), radishes, spinach and onions.
Sow in August for the autumn harvest
Many salads grow very quickly and can therefore in August and often in September in the bed. For late sowing, typical autumnal salads such as lamb's lettuce, radicchio, endive and sugar loaf are very good, but also different picking and sliced salads as well as arugula become ripe in time for the first frost. Autumn spinach and chard are also suitable for sowing, although you can overwinter chard even after the autumn harvest: To do this, cut the plants back to about five centimeters above the ground. You will then drive out again in the spring so that you can bring fresh chard to the table in March or April. If you are in the mood for something other than salad or leafy vegetables, you can sow these species directly in the raised bed:
The cultivation of various herbs such as parsley, chives, lovage, dill and garden cress is still worthwhile.
Sowing for the spring harvest
Otherwise, it is time to think about the next gardening season: starting in August, the first plants will be planted for the next harvest season. These include, for example, strawberries, but also spring and autumn onions.
Tips
In raised beds, the garden season can easily be extended by a few weeks: You only need to provide the bedding box with a cold frame. In any case, many plants in a raised bed can be cultivated longer than in traditional garden beds, because there it is nicely warm due to the rotting process.