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- The basic raised bed care in the annual run
- Spring: time to plant and sow
- Hacking and weeding
- mulching
- Fertilize
- Summer: watering and harvesting
- Autumn: Create a raised bed and renew it
- Winter: frost protection and cultivation of winter vegetables
- Tips
In the spring is planting time
The basic raised bed care in the annual run
Raised beds not only facilitate the usual garden work by their practical and back-friendly height, but also require otherwise hardly complicated measures.
Spring: time to plant and sow
Usually the garden year starts as soon as the ground is no longer frozen. In the raised bed, however, you can usher in the growing season much earlier, as the plants get enough heat from below, at least in a classic compost raised bed. A cold frame attachment also protects against the above-ground cold.
Hacking and weeding
Regular hacking and weeding, as well as the loosening of potting soil between the planted crops are as necessary and important on a raised bed as on a conventional turf.
mulching
Open soil between plants should be mulched, d. H. cover the soil about one to three centimeters high with dried grass clippings, straw or hay bales. In this way, you suppress unwanted weeds on the one hand, on the other hand you get a loose soil structure and protect the earth from dehydration. In the case of a compost bed, continuous mulching will also prevent a sudden slump in the bed. Mulch only in thin layers and never with moist material - this favors the one hand, the settlement of mushrooms and on the other hand attracts snails. Instead, fill in the mulch material regularly instead.
Fertilize
The fertilization of vegetable crops is eliminated, at least on a conventional stratified raised bed. Renew the inner life regularly at the latest every six years, remains that way. If, on the other hand, only garden soil is filled up at the top, as soon as the bed sinks or the raised bed is filled with soil anyway, you have to fertilize it like on normal ground beds.
Summer: watering and harvesting
In addition to the usual care measures in the summer in raised beds above all the casting in the foreground. Because of the elevated position, the higher temperatures and the drainage layer inside, they usually have a higher water requirement than flat beds. In the summer, plant raised beds abundantly and regularly, especially in the case of very water-demanding crops such as tomatoes or pumpkins.
Autumn: Create a raised bed and renew it
Autumn is the perfect time to put on a raised bed or to set it up again. Only the digging, as is common on Bodenbeeten with heavy earth, omitted.
Winter: frost protection and cultivation of winter vegetables
In winter, a non-planted raised bed should also be covered with mulch material (eg compost and manure) to prevent it from drying out and thus losing nutrients. Under a film tunnel, winter-proof vegetables such as winter spinach can be cultivated and harvested.
Tips
For raised wood beds in locations that are very exposed to the sun, a white or light coat of paint or a corresponding cladding of the bedside walls helps to prevent excessive drying out. Even a simple irrigation system is quickly installed: Fill PET bottles with water and put them back in the bed. They can be refilled again and again, so that the bed can sometimes be left alone for one to two days.