Raised beds can be used and designed in many ways. The palette ranges from misused fruit or wine boxes to elegant stone raised beds with ornamental plants as room dividers in the garden to smart table raised beds with herbs on the balcony or terrace. Before the construction, however, there is first of all careful planning.
With the raised bed, the crop rotation must be observed
The right raised bed for every garden
Before you create a raised bed, you should first think about your requirements - and which type of bed will best meet them. You choose the material according to your wallet and your personal preferences. But also make sure that the raised bed matches the style of the house and garden.
What is the purpose of the raised bed?
Should the raised bed be more of a part of the kitchen garden and primarily enable practical and back-friendly cultivation of vegetables? Then there is a rectangular and inexpensive variant made of boards or round wood. With a little craftsmanship, you can easily build this type of raised bed yourself.
Suitable materials for raised bed construction
Raised beds made of prefabricated plastic elements are even quicker and easier to set up. The trade also offers kits for composters made of wooden slats, which can easily be converted into raised beds. If you can invest a little more, you should choose more expensive but much more durable hardwood for the bed. Do you want your raised bed construction to be even more durable? Then raised beds made of stone are the first choice. However, they are more complex to build and more expensive than models made of wood.
A raised bed for vegetables
Vegetable raised beds need a sunny, warm and wind-protected place. You either plant them in the vegetable garden or place them close to the house and terrace - then the harvest routes are short. If you have several raised beds, you should also leave enough space for paths for daily care. In addition, raised vegetable beds require a great deal of effort to replace the substrate every few years.
A beautiful raised bed in the ornamental garden
If, on the other hand, the raised bed is not used for growing vegetables, but for redesigning and beautifying the garden, you should choose the material very carefully. In addition to raised beds made of stone, there are also those made of metal, wickerwork or other materials. Raised beds for ornamental plants can also be implemented in almost any place, for example to structure and enhance the garden.
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Raised beds are usually square. However, there are also round, polygonal or curved variants. These are premium design elements, but take up more space and are more complex to build than rectangular shapes.