Content
- Planting a raised bed: How to plan correctly
- Crop rotation and good and bad neighbors
- An example plan for the planting of the raised bed in the first year with heavy-weights
- An example plan for raised bed in the second year
- Example plan for the raised bed in the third year
- The fourth year: the year of rest
Salads and summer flowers are weak-eaters and are suitable for cultivation in the third year
Planting a raised bed: How to plan correctly
When planting a raised bed, there are several things to plan: which plants are compatible with which neighbors, in which month what is grown and which plants are heavy-eaters and which are weak-eaters. Find out below how to plant your raised bed and get a sample plan.
Crop rotation and good and bad neighbors
When growing a raised bed, there are several things to keep in mind, such as: the crop rotation and which plants are well tolerated. For example, cabbage is not compatible with other types of cabbage and onions at all. So you should not plant them next to each other. Cabbage and cucumber, on the other hand, have a positive effect on mutual growth. Here you will find a comprehensive overview of good and bad neighbors.
When planting a raised bed, it is particularly important to observe the crop rotation. You need to know which plants are strong and which are weakworms, because then the cultivation plan depends on:
An example plan for the planting of the raised bed in the first year with heavy-weights
You can find a complete overview of all starvation as well as their sowing and harvesting time here.
Of course, you can also intervene with a few medians, such as:
An example plan for raised bed in the second year
You can find all the mean eaters and their sowing and harvesting time here.
Example plan for the raised bed in the third year
In the third year, it was mainly weakers who were to be cultivated. Although you can interfere with a few Mittelzehrer, you should completely abstain from starvation. These would hardly thrive on the nutrient-poor soil. Therefore, build:
The fourth year: the year of rest
In the fourth year, you should let your raised bed settle down and grow green manure. For green manuring, e.g. Phacelia, buckwheat, mustard or the yellow lupine. In order not to lose a whole year, you can also carry out the green manuring in autumn. Lupines, phacelia, clover, winter rye and mustard (among others) grow at low temperatures and can be seeded wonderfully in autumn. Before flowering, the plants are mowed or manually crushed and left lying on the raised bed so that they rot there and thus provide the raised bed with nutrients.