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- A raised bed greenhouse: more than just body friendly
- Material for raised bed construction
- Proper gardening needs good soil in the raised bed greenhouse
- The care of the raised beds in the greenhouse
- Tips
A raised bed enables back-friendly plants
A raised bed greenhouse: more than just body friendly
Their advantage is not only that they allow very body-friendly gardening. The raised bed greenhouse offers plants ideal growing conditions and allows much easier replacement of the soil than is the case at ground level. And you can build it yourself!
Similar to the field, the raised bed greenhouse has proven to be its weather-independent variant in the taufach plant breeding. Appropriately thought out and with a stable superstructure towards the walls, the available inner surface of such houses can be used particularly well. If then the Side height maximized according to the height of the raised bed is, even for larger plants still enough space up. Further advantages are:
Material for raised bed construction
In the trade are both complete raised bed greenhouses on offer, prepared finished wood parts that need only be plugged together and screwed also and who has mood, gets these practical wooden structures also very easily assembled by yourself, It works best with high quality larch woodwhich is connected at the corners with stabilizing posts. The material thickness may be a bit more massive, since the internal pressure of the soil in the raised bed can be quite high.
Proper gardening needs good soil in the raised bed greenhouse
Not only high-quality soil, but the different types of soil enable your vegetables and all the other plants to thrive. Nevertheless, the different growth conditions the planned planting. Basically recommended for traditional vegetable and herb cultivation is the following constellation (order from bottom to top):
Please note that really only high quality compost soil is used, otherwise it will become one increased rotting which has a negative impact on plant growth.
The care of the raised beds in the greenhouse
The top layer can be refreshed a little after each harvest. This guarantees that there is always a balance of nutrients in the soil. Overall, the content and thus the height in the raised bed would be reduced by about 10 to 15 cm, so that to the second level into it again and again refilling is to take place after five to seven years, the complete exchange of all layers.
Tips
Similar to outdoor gardening, regular soil samples should be taken from the soil of the raised bed greenhouse and evaluated in the laboratory. A quick test, which at least provides information about the current pH value, also provides valuable information in this regard.