The following content also has some reference value for raised garden beds.Cultivate your own food in your own style and create unique and beautiful vegetable gardens, which are rich and charming. Don't be surprised if you find yourself more eager to weed - you don't want to leave your beautiful plot.
1. Also bring fruits and herbs
Most people think that a vegetable garden is a row of green leafy plants. But you can think outside the box - even if you are planting on an elevated bed. With some plans, you can plant edible plants that can be displayed as well as any garden. Although the garden is relatively small (about 20x20 feet), it includes mouth watering fruits, vegetables and herbs as well as flowers. A combination like this is hardly amazing.
2. Select the correct position
The key to a successful garden design is to ensure that you have the right location. Most vegetables grow best in full sunlight - at least eight hours of direct sunlight a day. No matter what kind of soil you have, if you use organic substances (such as compost) to improve the soil before planting, your vegetables will thank you. Greening will also be more adequate.
Here's a tip: locate your garden where you can easily enter. If you can quickly rush out and grab what you need (especially when you are cooking) without having to travel across the yard, the burden of harvesting fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs will be reduced.
3. Garden entrance
Make your garden an attractive entrance. Here, a towering white tree interspersed with climbing roses is enough. Although these flowers are a classic choice for arbors, you can choose almost anything from ornamental clematis or morning glory to edible safflower beans or kiwifruit to beautify the garden.
4. Just add flowers
Why have a separate garden when you can grow them next to vegetables? Flowers, especially those of the daisy family, will attract beneficial insects, which will attack and kill pests such as tomato hornworms or aphids. Other useful insects can pollinate solid vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins and melons, so you can get more harvest. Better yet, choose plants with edible flowers, so that they can be both used as food and eye pleasing.
5. Protect your plants
If hungry deer, rabbits or other small animals often visit your garden, please protect your plants to prevent pests from harvesting more than you. For this small plot, a 3-foot high wire fence is attached to the surrounding posts to prevent small animals from entering the vegetable garden. Remember that if rabbits, gophers, or other burrowing animals have problems, your barbed wire needs to extend at least one foot below the ground to prevent small animals from digging under it.
6. Growing up on an elevated bed
If you need the power to build an elevated bed, consider these benefits for your garden: you can fill the elevated planting space with any type of soil (this is an advantage if your ground is full of clay, sand or rock). The elevated bed is preheated early in spring, so that you can harvest in the planting season. Also, if you build your box 3 to 4 feet wide - so that you can easily get from both sides to the middle - you will never tread to compact the soil.
