Content
- Create privacy with a raised bed - That's how it works
- With a raised bed strange views deny insight
- Which plants are suitable as privacy screens in the raised bed?
- Screen with fruit trees
- Use high walls for raised bed construction
- Tips
Plants that would otherwise be too low can trump in the raised bed for privacy
Create privacy with a raised bed - That's how it works
A raised bed is not only suitable for growing vegetables at a comfortable working height and cultivating pretty shrubs - instead you can kill two birds with one stone and create a cozy, cozy corner with the help of a raised bed and suitable plants.
With a raised bed strange views deny insight
With a raised bed, you can stop strangers even with plants that are too low in the normal bed. A seat can be so elegant, beautiful or comfortably furnished - if you do not have a protective edge facing you, you do not feel secure.
Which plants are suitable as privacy screens in the raised bed?
At the patio, plants of the raised bed are planted with high-growth herbs such as lavender, rosemary, hyssop, sage and oregano. Not only do they smell aromatic, they can also be used for seasoning in the kitchen. Also suitable are perennials with long flowering time, for example, the Indian armchair (Monarda) or tall, upright-awake grasses such as the garden riding grass or the small zebra.
Screen with fruit trees
Even fruit trees - berry bushes and small fruit trees - can be cultivated as a screen in the raised bed. Suitable species are especially redcurrants, gooseberries, maize berries and blueberries. If you want to grow raspberries on the raised bed, you should always attach a post to the two narrow sides of the bed and pull in some tension wires. To these bind the long raspberry ribs. Even trellis-planted in rows (for example, ballerina-apple tree) are very good.
Use high walls for raised bed construction
Wherever a wall is desired or necessary, it can be converted into a low-maintenance raised bed with a second one placed in front of it. High walls do not seem so massive anymore, you also use the heat-storing effect of the stones for the plants. Even compact screen walls made of gabions or wooden sleepers can be loosened up in this way. The same applies to high, bare walls of residential and outbuildings. Not always you have enough sun for crops, but also many climbing and ornamental plants feel comfortable in raised beds. Raised beds are particularly well suited in sealed courtyards and on paved areas to create more green spaces.
Tips
If perennial plants are to grow on the raised bed, the layers in the bed must be laid out accordingly. Unlike vegetable raised beds, you first fill a drainage layer of gravel and apply a gardening fleece over it. Then again comes as a substrate a mixture of mother earth and compost.