Content
- Ideas for the meaningful planting of a raised bed
- A raised bed for salad lovers
- spring
- summer
- autumn and winter
- Vegetable raised bed for self-catering
- spring
- summer
- autumn
- Tips
If you plan properly, you can harvest salad from the raised bed almost all year round
Ideas for the meaningful planting of a raised bed
You want to use the space on your newly built raised bed effectively, but do not really know how? Then we would have some suggestions for a successful mixed culture and crop rotation.
A raised bed for salad lovers
An already three to four year old raised bed is perfect for growing on fresh salads and leafy vegetables - they should not be planted on a freshly layered bed, otherwise they accumulate too much nitrate. The also grown, consuming tomatoes receive an extra portion of ripe compost. And so you plant your salad raised bed:
spring
Between March and April, sow fast-growing salad, arugula and radish. Pickling salad and spinach can also be sown, but you can reap faster after planting young plants. Protect the seedlings and young plants with a cover made of fleece from cold and frost. Only choose varieties that are suitable for spring cultivation.
summer
Because spinach blooms in summer, replace it in May with head or romaine lettuce. Also from mid / end of May, instead of cut salad, plant tomato plants in the bed, accompanied by basil and rocket. In addition, chard and radicchio fit very well in the bed. Tomatoes, radicchio and chard remain in the bed until the end of the season. Lettuce is replaced in autumn by chicory salad, z. B. endives. Romanasalat can stay in the bed until October and be harvested on an ongoing basis.
autumn and winter
In the salad raised bed, you can even harvest in winter, if you sow in late summer corn salad on all vacant places.
Vegetable raised bed for self-catering
This raised bed will provide you with fresh vegetables throughout the season, which you can use in the kitchen or preserve for the winter.
spring
Already in March you can put preferred peas in the raised bed. To do this, sow a variety of early and medium-early carrots between which you sprinkle a few dill seeds. As a result, the carrots germinate better, also you have the same delicate dill tips for seasoning in the kitchen. Even parsnips or root parsley can enter the bed, their aromas give soups and stews only the right whistle. One or two spring onions complete the spring bed.
summer
After harvesting the peas, cut off the shoots just above the ground. However, leave the roots in the soil because they contain nitrogen-containing nodule bacteria and are thus perfect for planting high-consuming vegetables such as zucchini and squash. A few bush beans in between, and instead of the early carrots, provide plenty of fresh beans for stews & Co. The place of the harvested spring onions now take broccoli seedlings.
autumn
Zucchini and pumpkin, but also broccoli take on considerable proportions during the summer. Gradually harvest the remaining carrots and beans before they are crushed with zucchini, squash and broccoli.
Tips
An ideal raised bed for children should be kept as low as possible and contain easy-to-cultivate nutritious vegetables and fruits. Strawberries, peas, bush tomatoes and carrots are ideal, for example.