Are you looking for a simple and efficient guide for beginners to grow up beautiful organic vegetables, flowers and herbs? If yes, then keep reading...
Raised bed gardening has a whole host of benefits and is a great way to neatly organize your vegetable garden while boosting your productivity. It can make gardening easier by reducing time spent weeding and digging thereby giving you more time for the fun side of gardening such as planting and harvesting. Before you start building though, take some time to plan your beds, working out the best combination of bed sizes in order to maximize your use of space. Don't forget to leave a wheelbarrow width (at least) of path between the beds. Your beds also do not need to all be the same size and you can always build some larger beds to make the most of the space available to you.
This book covers the following topics:
- What is the raised bed revolution?
- Design, materials and soil
- Create your very first raised row garden
- Choosing raised bed materials
- How to construct raised bed gardens
- Benefits of raised beds
- Fertilizing your container plants
- Companion planting and crop rotation
- Audit your growing space
- Planting your first raised row garden in spring
- Maintaining the raised row garden in summer
- Commons mistakes to avoid
- Preventing problems by promoting plant health
- Identifying pests and diseases
- Guide to garden pests and their natural enemies
- Kitchen herbs
- Growing micro greens from start to finish
...And much more
You may build your raised beds from new or you may inherit them, like I have. These raised beds were lost in weeds but were found, repaired and the soil amended to be perfect for another growing season. With raised beds, there is work up front building and preparing the beds but when this is done you will find gardening becomes much easier. The soil mix is of vital importance for a raised bed and you need to ensure your beds are a minimum of six to eight inches deep, though they will need to be deeper for deeper rooted plants. Make the best soil mix you can afford; you can always amend it over the coming year, improving it as you go and have spare cash. Remember that the soil needs to be loose and nutritious because you are going to plant more densely than normal and so get a more abundant crop. Raised beds are becoming very popular with gardeners, bo
