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- The best tips for the raised bed
- What size is ideal for the raised bed?
- How can I best fill the raised bed?
- How can I best extend the gardening season with a raised bed?
- Can I also operate a raised bed on the balcony?
- Tips
Raised beds facilitate harvesting many times over
The best tips for the raised bed
A raised bed offers many advantages: On the raised bed, it is easy to garden while standing, with no back pain, thanks to a compostable filling, you save fertilizer and also prolongs by the heat in such a compost raised bed by itself the garden season.
What size is ideal for the raised bed?
Depending on your height, it should have a height of between 85 and 100 centimeters so that you can work comfortably on the raised bed. Ideally, the upper edge of the finished raised bed is approximately at the level of the iliac crest. In terms of width, a raised bed accessible from both sides should not be wider than 120 meters. An arm length for processing a bed area is estimated at about 60 to 70 centimeters.
How can I best fill the raised bed?
It all depends on what you want to plant in the raised bed. Vegetables are best served with a classic compost raised bed that provides plenty of nutrients. However, as this quickly sinks due to the rotting process, you should fill it in the fall, refill in the spring and save by constant mulching during the summer months from sagging. If the planting is perennial (for example, fruit trees or shrubs), then you should only fill soil - and by no means do without good drainage!
How can I best extend the gardening season with a raised bed?
If you have set up a compost raised bed, you can use it at least two to three weeks earlier or longer, thanks to the development of heat both in spring and autumn. If you also use a cold frame or greenhouse attachment, there is nothing in the way of unlimited gardening - even in winter you can find vegetables that you can cultivate without worrying.
Can I also operate a raised bed on the balcony?
For the balcony there are special balcony raised beds, which are exactly matched to the statics of the building - a normal compost raised bed can not be set up here, because it is simply too heavy. But also table high beds or misused boxes (such as fruit and wine boxes) are very good.
Tips
No matter what material you use to build your raised bed, where it stands or how you fill it: drainage and a functioning water drain are extremely important for successful gardening.