First you need to choose a place where the garden will be located. It should be fully illuminated by the sun's rays.
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Let's take a look at the main advantages:
- Due to their height, they are convenient to handle.
- The garden bed can be filled with any kind of soil, as well as fertilizers purchased from the store.
- The height provides early warming of the soil at the beginning of the season, therefore, seeds can be sown earlier.
- The beds on the site look more neat and well-groomed.
- A minimum of weeds.
- The drainage system prevents water stagnation.
Despite a number of advantages, high beds have their own limitations:
- Rapid drying of the soil due to the high level.
- Plants in these ridges need frequent feeding.
- Expensive, both from a material and physical point of view.
Nevertheless, there are much more positive aspects, so there should not be any special difficulties in use.
High bed material
To create a high bed, you need to make a fence (box or separate sheets). The choice of material is made based on the possibilities. Most often used:
- brick, distinguished by its safety and durability;
- boards or beams that need to be treated with an antiseptic;
- asbestos-cement sheets, but you need to pay attention to their fragility;
- plastic: lightness and affordable price.
Manufacturing procedure yourself
The size of the beds should be determined at 1 meter wide, about 2 meters long and about 90 cm high. If you have fertile soil, a height of 15 cm is sufficient.
For manufacturing you will need:
- a hammer;
- screwdriver and self-tapping screws;
- shovel;
- level;
- roulette;
- boards;
- priming;
- wire mesh;
- organic fertilizers;
- vegetable waste for drainage (branches, pieces of bricks).
Next, you need to perform a certain number of actions:
- Clear space for a new bed.
- Use a tape measure to mark the dimensions.
- Install boards according to size.
- Secure them with self-tapping screws.
- Cover the bottom with a net to protect plant roots.
- Lay out drainage and organic fertilizers.
- Lay out the soil and level it.
As you can see, it doesn't take much to make a "home" for your plants. Every amateur gardener has such tools and materials. In just 30 minutes, your garden is ready!
High bed care
Proper care will ensure its longevity. In the fall, it is necessary to replenish the bed with organic fertilizers and fill it with nutritious soil. And in the spring it will be ready for planting, it is not necessary to dig it up.
High beds are not only a beautiful and well-groomed area, but also a minimum time for weeding, as well as a large harvest!
Do you know how to make high beds?
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