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- Properly gardening in the raised bed
- Basic equipment for gardening in the raised bed
- These tools are handy
- Useful accessories
- Incidental work in the raised bed
- Gardening in the spring
- Gardening in the summer
- Gardening in the fall
- Gardening in the winter
- Tips
A small shovel helps to plant
Properly gardening in the raised bed
In principle, the same work occurs in the raised bed as in a conventional ground bed. Here, too, your plants need careful care so that they can grow magnificently, and from the spring to the first frost a rich harvest is possible.
Basic equipment for gardening in the raised bed
If you garden mainly in the raised bed, you need another basic equipment. Long-shafted devices such as spades, etc., are of little use here; instead, small handheld devices are generally sufficient.
These tools are handy
It makes sense, for example, to purchase these handsets:
Useful accessories
In addition to the above basic equipment, the following utensils are useful: tying cord, wire, weed fleece, transparent cover foil, various support rods made of wood or bamboo and weatherproof labels for labeling. A bucket or mesh basket is useful for collecting and transporting plant debris, crop and small tools.
Incidental work in the raised bed
If the ground is still frozen in the normal vegetable garden, you can already start the gardening season in the raised bed around February. In stratified beds in particular, it is still warm enough to grow vegetables despite the winter cold. With the help of a foil cover gardening succeeds almost all year round.
Gardening in the spring
From March / April you can sow the following types of vegetables in the raised bed: radishes, radishes, spinach, chard, cut and pickles, carrots, parsnips and root parsley. Furthermore, herbs such as parsley, garden cress, chervil and salad herbs such as rocket salad and Asian salads (for example Mizuna) are relatively insensitive to cold. After sowing, cover the sowings with white fleece (no foil!) So that the seedlings are protected from the cold.
Gardening in the summer
Heat-loving vegetables such as peppers, chili and tomatoes only come into the bed after the ice saints. You can plant early cucumbers, zucchini, aubergines and pumpkins at the end of May at the earliest, better at the beginning of June. From June, you can also use kohlrabi, broccoli, summer salads such as Romana and tubers. Spinach should be harvested now, otherwise it will start shooting.
Gardening in the fall
From August, autumn vegetables such as late broccoli, green and Chinese cabbage, radicchio and endives will be added to the bed. You can also sow or plant spinach again. From September you should also keep an antifreeze at hand, because then the nights can get colder again.
Gardening in the winter
Even in winter, the raised bed does not have to lie fallow: cold and frost, for example, do not mind leeks, sprout broccoli, parsnips, arugula, parsley and celery. Cover the bed with a white fleece and harvest until February so you can start the new season.
Tips
For a classically layered raised bed, fertilization is basically not necessary during the first three years.