Garden beds with own hands

Principles of the formation of beds with their own hands

1. For the cultivation of vegetable crops, each row is directed from east to west.
2. When creating beds, try to keep their width not exceeding 160 cm, otherwise it will be inconvenient to look after the plantings. But the thickness of the earth layer can reach up to 70 cm inclusive.
3. Decorating the high beds with your own hands, you need to take care of reliable curbs. Otherwise, the land will gradually be washed by sediments and water during irrigation. The fences should be 40 cm more than the height of the bed. It is at such a distance that the walls of the curbs should be deepened into the ground.
4. Arranging the high beds in the country, be sure to put a compost on the bottom, you can even non-disposed vegetable debris. And then pour a fertile soil on top.

Care of plants on such a high vegetable garden is reduced to irrigation, fertilizing and loosening. Thanks to the ground level raised at 70 cm, everything becomes much more convenient.

But there is one limitation: only one-year-old crops can be grown, since with this design, in case of severe frosts, the earth will freeze through. And this will negatively affect the vital activity of plants. They will develop badly in the future or will eventually perish.

Material for decoration of the edge

Now among the gardeners there was a fashion: to make beautiful beds with own hands and brag about them before neighbors. To add aesthetics to your garden, the retaining walls make of planks decorated with carvings, or from logs laid in the form of a well.

Suitable for such purposes and construction slate. Only it will need to be cut into strips - do not forget about 40 extra centimeters.

Many used to fix the raised ground used car tires or industrial-made curbs of plastic.

A handmade material for decorating the boundaries of vegetable beds, can become bottles of champagne. And some fill with water even ordinary plastic and use them for the same purposes.

If your homestead is nice and you do not want to destroy the harmony of the stone garden, make the retaining walls of the vegetable patch of flat sandstone or dolomite. Such designs will fit organically into any mountain landscape.