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- To plan a raised bed below
- Why a raised bed usually always has contact with the ground
- Lower elevated bed for balcony and terrace
- Drainage for raised raised beds below
- Tips
Raised beds without direct contact with the ground need a very good drainage
To plan a raised bed below
There are countless varieties of raised beds of very different materials, in different sizes and shapes, with or without ground ... Since raised beds are becoming increasingly popular, resourceful gardeners and retailers have come up with quite a few things, so that such a bed not only in the Natural garden can be placed. For balcony and terrace, for example, you should choose a raised bed below - otherwise it will flood the ground, where excess water can not seep into it.
Why a raised bed usually always has contact with the ground
Conventional compost raised beds always have an open floor and thus ground contact for two main reasons:
In order for both to work, the substrate should be prepared accordingly before placing the bed and filling it.
Lower elevated bed for balcony and terrace
Now, open floors are not always possible: on the balcony, for example, you might quickly get into trouble with the landlord and the neighbors living below with such a bed. For this reason, in such cases, only bottom raised beds are possible, although there are many variants here. Practical are about the table beds, which are actually not classic raised beds. Nevertheless, they offer a comfortable working height and plenty of planting area. Also from discarded fruit and wine crates can be built in a jiffy "raised beds". While you always have to keep an eye on the statics in balcony beds, you can set up larger and heavier raised beds on the terrace as well as on other surfaces.
Drainage for raised raised beds below
But whether on a balcony, terrace or anywhere else: Bottom raised raised beds absolutely need a good drainage, so that excess water can drain and the vegetable bed does not turn into a swampy landscape. But how do you do it when the closed ground no longer offers drainage? Here you can get creative and ensure drainage in the following proven ways:
Tips
Raised beds with a flat planting trough (such as the table beds) are not suitable for composting due to the small depth. Instead, they can simply be filled with soil.