Are you looking for a complete guide on raised bed gardening? Then keep reading...
Traditional gardeners have been making use of raised beds to grow their vegetables for many years. They would double dig the beds, creating circular or rectangular mounds a foot or so high with the sloping edges on the sides of the beds. This is especially effective in areas that receive lots of rain since it guarantees good drainage. Additionally, it allows a bit more space to grow your veggies.
One of the most popular styles of gardening today is raised gardening. Why is this type of gardening so popular? Why do people prefer it to regular gardening or container gardening, which is relatively simpler to set up and easier to maintain? Why are so many eBooks on raised bed gardening becoming bestsellers overnight?
This book covers the following topics:
- Why people should choose raised bed gardening
- deciding on your raised bed garden
- essential tools for a vegetable garden
- how to construct raised bed gardens
- high-yielding garden: the secrets
- planting your vegetable garden
- plant profiles
- growing an organic home garden
- watering your garden
- keeping your garden in good shape
...And much more
There are many, many advantages that one can enjoy with this type of gardening. Here are 13 of the top quoted reasons:
Raised bed gardening is great for small areas of land.
You can plant more because you do not need to worry about having a path in between the plants for walking.
You do not have many about which weeds to worry.
It is easier to keep pests away - especially slugs and snails.
It is a great option for places that are drought-affected/ have water scarcity.
Raised gardens can be built to suit any height needed. It is easy to garden for people who cannot bend, are confined to wheelchairs or have any other type of physical challenges.
Raised gardens require little to no maintenance.
Raised gardens make it easy to adapt the square foot gardening method. Square foot gardening is when you divide the garden into one square foot plot.
You do not need much digging once the garden is set up for the earth is compact and well aired.
The raised bed can be made into any shape - as per your desire and/or need.
You can have different types of soil for different beds. For example, you can have rich soil for pumpkins, sandy soil for carrots, and so on. You can also easily rotate your plants/ flowers in any way that suits you.
You have the best drainage with this type of gardening. This is of immense help if you live in an area where the soil is waterlogged. You will not have to worry about root rot.
You can bid goodbye to gophers or any other burrowing pests as you can "close" the bottom of your raised garden with wire mesh (like you use in chicken coops) to prevent any pest from burrowing into your garden from underneath.
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