What is the advantage of the garden bed?
On the site there can be a flower bed, a flower bed with vegetables or a combined option, that is, your possibilities are not limited by anything. If you just want to add a little beauty to the use of vegetable planting, it is enough to form groups of plants the way you would do with flowers. For example, in the center plant tomatoes, around them a ring of ordinary white cabbage or cauliflower, then, for example, beets, and the outer rows can be decorated with onion, salad, celery or other rapidly rising greens.
The combination of successively growing species will look original. For example, lettuce rises and, accordingly, is collected before parsley, and one green is replaced by another throughout the season. However, it is much more profitable to use multi-tiered and pyramidal flower beds, not to mention vertical ones. For example, using the pyramid variant, when the design consists of a set of upwardly rising pockets, you can obtain significant space savings.
On a plot of 1 square meter, you can construct a structure with tanks, the total soil area in which will correspond to two squares of .Vertical structures give even more space for planting vegetables. For example, a flower bed for strawberries can be made in the form of double-sided boxes installed on the support, from where the whips with berries will hang beautifully.
Vegetable flower beds in symbiosis with flowers
One of the frequent problems that gardeners have is different winged pests attacking suddenly and without warning. The constant protection of vegetables takes a lot of time, while flower beds are fluttered only by butterflies and bees. But some types of ornamental plants can become reliable protectors of edible crops. For example, marigolds and calendula, in addition to being useful in themselves, decorate vegetable beds and drive away many types of pests. In particular, marigolds will become an obstacle not only from aphids, but also from fungi. Chopping the stems in autumn, and digging with soil, you can improve it.
For vegetable beds, even those plants that are considered weeds can be useful, for example, wormwood is an excellent protection against many types of pests.
Calendula, better known among the people as a nail, improves the soil and while growing on it, not to mention the protection of vegetables planted nearby, from pests. A wonderful neighbor for edible crops is the borage. This plant loosens the soil, ensuring a deep penetration of moisture and air into the soil. Moreover, it is an excellent honey plant, which means it will attract many insects not only to themselves, but also to the nearby vegetables that blossom. As a result, the harvest will be more abundant, and if you have an apiary, you will get a double benefit. Nasturtium protects vegetables and root crops from weeds, and itself is edible, it can be added to salad, butter, cottage cheese.
Flowerbeds in the garden - we provide easy access
By planting flowers and providing them with watering, you can forget about the flower bed or the rabbit for a long time, only from time to time inspecting for weeds. With those varieties of plants that go to food, such a number will not pass, they need to be taken care of much more. In addition, if the flower garden can be planted completely, with a long sight, that no one walks on it, the flowerbeds in the garden should be placed so that each vegetable or root vegetable is at arm's length.
It is optimal to make the diameter( width) of the flower bed within 2 meters of .Tracks on either side or around will provide an approach to each sector of landings. To give the plot with the beds the desired shape and height, it is not enough to pour the land along the previously drawn contour, it is necessary to install fences for beds and flower beds. It is easiest to encircle the planting with a stone wall or building blocks.
Cement is not necessary to use, it is enough to stack the material so that nothing staggers anywhere, that is tightly. From a tree of a fencing turn out reliable, but short-lived, they demand annual leaving. Slightly better in this respect are wicker-woven walls for flower beds, most importantly, do not scrape off the bark from the flexible branches. But it is best to use special structures made of metal, covered with polymers, or fences directly from plastic, both of which are highly reliable.