The purchase of a cottage or a suburban area promises the owners a lot of pleasant minutes, they have the opportunity to spend time in nature, the design of the site can be done to your liking, embodying creative ideas, ingenuity and artistic talents. But, breaking a beautiful garden, equipping lawns and flower beds, the land owner in any case will think that it would be nice to grow fresh vegetables on the site for his family. Proper care of vegetable crops requires some knowledge and skills, in particular - the ability to properly break the beds is very important.

Content:

1. Types, features of high beds video video
2. Creation technology
   • choose a location and determine the size
   • about style
   • important point - borders
   • design creation order video
   • how to prepare the soil
3. Choosing the material for the sides
4. About the benefits

Types, features of high beds

By the type of creation of beds for vegetables or strawberries can be:

• high i.e. elevated above ground level
• zero, coinciding in level with the surrounding area,
• buried, the level of which is below ground level.

High beds are especially popular today, they look very attractive, can significantly increase the yield of some crops, but before you start creating them you need to familiarize yourself with some of the nuances, there are cases when their creation turns out to be irrational.

As the main criterion for choosing the type of beds is the composition of the soil and its degree of moisture. For example, it is not recommended to break them into areas located on the southern slopes of high hills with loose sandy soils. In this case, water will not linger in the upper layers of the soil, watering will be unproductive, plants will wither in the summer heat - high beds will lead to even faster drying of the soil. It can be concluded that the construction is advantageous if the site is low-lying, with excessive humidity, clayey, moisture-tight soils.

It is extremely rare to create buried vegetable gardens, and if you want to equip elevated areas, special methods of preserving moisture are used.

It is not rational to plant plants on the high bed, the fruits of which will be intended for winter storage, for example, carrots or potatoes. But early crops, especially if cultivation is carried out in the northern regions, can be planted a couple of weeks earlier. This will allow you to quickly get a crop of early radishes, herbs, strawberries or wild strawberries.

If you do not take into account exclusively agrotechnical features, but also take into account the aesthetic side, then created and created well-groomed beds may well fit into the overall picture of the garden and become part of its landscape design.

About how beautiful tall beds can be - in the video:

A convenient and attractive option is flower beds, created by the same principle. The arrangement of high beds is also used in greenhouses - this greatly simplifies the care of plants.

Creation technology

choose a location and determine the size

As for the location, it is best to initially allocate space for them on the site, drawing a plan, then make sure they are conveniently located by marking the beds directly on the ground. There are no restrictions on the shape and size, but guided by common sense, it is advisable to determine the width - if the beds are too wide to carry out weeding, watering, loosening and harvesting will be inconvenient. It is not recommended to become feet on such beds - this will lead to compaction of the soil, and there will also be a chance of damage to plants.

Standard beds, for example, manufactured by EuroOgorod, have beds of different lengths and widths of the order of 0.5 m - 1.5 m. When creating beds with your own hands, it is advisable to adhere to this parameter.

Experience shows that making beds wider than 120 cm wide is not rational; this complicates the process of caring for plants. However, a width of 1.2 m allows planting of vegetable crops in two rows, while the plants have enough space for normal development, and the area itself is used to the maximum.

The length of tall gardens is limited only by the size of the plot - the use of prefabricated structures allows you to create a reliable frame of any size.

It is desirable to locate them in an area that is illuminated by sunlight for at least six hours a day.

about style

Gardens created in this way can have a different style, the most common:

• french,
• english,
• in a rural style.

But strictly sticking to the topic is not necessary at all, even ordinary rectangular beds with lush, well-groomed vegetation will look very attractive.

important point - borders

A particularly important point, both for the washout structure and for its appearance, will be curbs for beds. They will prevent the destruction and loss of their original shape and height. Therefore, the boundaries of the beds are enclosed in a box. Most often it is made with your own hands, made of wood, but the desire to get a strong and reliable frame that will last a long time leads to the idea that it is more rational to buy beds from galvanized steel.

If you decide to make a wooden box, then for construction you can use a board with a width of 25 cm to 50 cm, it is advisable to deepen the manufactured frame into the ground, this:

• will increase the stability of the installed structure,
• prevent the spillage of soil through the cracks that occur at the base of the box.

Optimum Height:

• 15 cm, if the garden is isolated and has no contact with soil rocks,
• 30 cm - if the structure is built into the ground.

If it is supposed to fertilize plants with compost and to shelter plants from spring frosts or cold snap in the summer, then it makes sense to break a bed up to half a meter high.

design creation order

The bottom of the structure should be lined with a metal mesh, this will prevent the possibility of penetration of rodents. To protect the garden from germination of weeds, its bottom can be lined with a layer of geotextile.

To minimize the possibility of contact of moist soil with wood, the inner side of the walls of the structure is upholstered with polyethylene. Next, good quality soil is poured into the box and watered, supplemented with soil and poured into the places of formation of the recesses and watered again.

Watch a video about the principle of creating high beds:

how to prepare the soil

If the soil will be used directly from the site, you will have to take care to give it a higher fertility.

In particular, sandy soil will require the addition of per square meter:

• half a bucket of rotted sawdust,
• buckets of peat
• buckets of compost with turfy soil.

If the soil is heavy, clay, you will need to add per square meter:

• a bucket of sand
• a compost bucket
• half a bucket of sawdust.

The beds obtained in this way will be warm, they will be able to retain moisture well.

Choosing the material for the sides

The service life of the garden we created will largely depend on the strength of the material used in the construction of the sides. In conditions of high humidity, an ordinary pine board will rot in two to three years, naturally, it will need to be replaced.

More budgetary will be a slate design. Of course, the appearance of the gray gray surface of the slate is far from perfect, but you can use tyn, woven from branches, as a finish for the slate sides.

This option will bring liveliness and zest to the landscape solution of the garden, the garden will look completely different, the picturesque fence will give it an original look.

As the material for the sides, you can use plastic, he:

• lightweight
• not afraid of moisture
• has a long service life,
• may have different colors.

In principle, it is possible to use garden tape, it is advisable only to choose a high density material and wide enough. To fasten the tape, pegs driven into the ground can be used, they will need to be placed at the corners of the structure and along each wall, at the same distance from each other.

Of course, such a design will not have much strength.

The ideal solution is to purchase ready-made beds with a polymer coating, for example, ordering them from EuroOgorod. The appearance of such borders for beds and flower beds are ideal, high-quality characteristics, appropriate, high. Installation is no more complicated than assembling a child’s designer, the assembly is performed in grooves, anyone without special training can handle this work.

Among the additional conveniences of a factory-made structure - extreme strength and stability, for example, if necessary, an adult can become a side - the permissible load is about 200 kg. To install the structure, you don’t have to hammer the pegs - the lower part of the side is equipped with legs 12 cm long. The thickness of the sides themselves is from 0, 6 to 2, 5 cm, the height of the structure varies. An attractive point is the possibility of acquiring composter from the company Eurocity, the dimensions of which can be selected in accordance with the needs of your farm.

Galvanized beds from Eurocity, summer residents' reviews received the highest, including due to the lack of the need to clean them for the winter in the room - galvanized material is not subject to corrosion and can withstand temperature extremes.

If the style of the garden involves the use of extremely expensive natural materials, then as a frame for the garden you can use a stone wall built by yourself.

Thus, a composition of vegetable beds can be created, which, with good care, can serve as a decoration. A brick border will look no less attractive.

Of course, such work will be quite expensive, both in time and in materials, in particular, it will be required:

• brick or natural stone of suitable sizes,
• cement and sand for masonry mortar,
• enough free time.

The gabion created from a metal lattice and beautiful stones will look even more picturesque. Gabions themselves in their pure form have often been used recently to decorate the garden, but if they are complemented by beautiful plants and flowers, then the original garden design will benefit from this. To exclude the possibility of earth spilling through the walls of the gabion, their inner side should be tracked with a layer of geotextile.

Making all the beds high is not necessary, you can limit yourself to those that are located in plain sight and require special decoration, or, if you approach from a purely practical point of view, to a few, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich will allow you to get enough greens, early vegetables or berries.

About the benefits

In conclusion, you can summarize the information received and clarify what advantages have high beds:

• the ability to grow flowers, herbs and any vegetable crops, except perhaps corn and sunflower,
• experienced gardeners and beginners get the opportunity to more comfortably care for plants, weeding, applying fertilizers, controlling weed growth and ripening is much easier,
• the possibility of arranging high-quality drainage or a water retention system - depending on the need,
• the ability to regulate the fertile soil layer,
• the ability to use high-quality purchased soil,
• the possibility of obtaining a rich crop of sufficiently high quality,
• increase the aesthetic appearance of the entire site.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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