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- Caring low raised bed with colorful flowers
- Flowers in the raised bed: Ideal temporary use
- Green manure by summer flowers
- Suitable species for care-poor raised bed
- Colorful spring messengers in raised bed
- Tips
Even flowers feel comfortable in the raised bed
Caring low raised bed with colorful flowers
For a colorful flower meadow, you do not have to sacrifice your lawn right away. Instead, you simply transform your former vegetable high bed into a magical wildflower meadow - and thus ensure that not only bees and bumblebees feel at home with you, but at the same time for a natural green manure.
Flowers in the raised bed: Ideal temporary use
A former, now largely decayed vegetable raised bed is perfect for accommodating typical meadow flowers such as poppies, cornflowers, cornflowers, field knight spur, chamomile, dyer's camomile and marguerite. They thrive on a nutrient-poor, loose soil much better than, for example, on a meadow. Before sowing, you do not need to rebuild the raised bed, just fill in a lean substrate instead. With a bit of luck, unexpected surprise guests, such as mullein, evening primrose or wild card, can be added by seed approach. You can re-plant the wildflower bed every year - the mentioned one-year-old self-emigrate - or simply reactivate the raised bed when needed for the cultivation of vegetables.
Green manure by summer flowers
Marigolds, lupins, bee-lovers, sunflowers, mallows and clover are contained in many green manure mixtures, which allow you to overgrow your raised bed in between to provide replenishment with fresh nutrients. Over the summer, the lush blossoms delight your eye, after the blooming let the plants simply rot over the winter.
Suitable species for care-poor raised bed
Various summer flowers from the bedding and balcony plant assortment such as lobelia, summer sage, beard thread, spider flowers, Zinnias, snapdragons, Elfenspiegel, nasturtium or Kapsonnenblume can be cultivated on a raised bed, but need a little more attention than the wild flowers already described. During the summer months you should provide these flowers regularly with suitable liquid fertilizer.
Colorful spring messengers in raised bed
If you already plant the bulbs of tulips, daffodils, blue oysters, grape hyacinths and other spring flowers in August or September, you can look forward to a wonderful sea of flowers the following spring. In March, when the onion flowers make the first tender green, it is best to add gold varnish, colorful primroses, forget-me-nots, little darlings, horned violets and pansies. When the vernal splendor is over, the onions are allowed to remain in the bed. Flowered pansies and Co. are removed and replaced by annual summer flowers.
Tips
If you use the spring flowers as a preculture in the vegetable raised bed, you should also remove the flower bulbs after the blooming and keep in a dry box until the end of the summer. Then plant the desired vegetables.