- Combine the pleasant with the useful
- Improve the privacy factor of the raised bed through clever landscape planning
- These tall vegetables turn the raised bed into a seasonal privacy screen
If a garden is to be surrounded by a privacy screen or divided into different garden areas, the choice usually falls on stone walls, privacy hedges and more modern materials such as plexiglass. Under certain circumstances, however, a raised bed can also provide the desired view blockage and at the same time ensure high yields when harvesting vegetables.
With high-growing vegetables, the raised bed also protects you from prying eyes
Combine the pleasant with the useful
As in almost all areas of life, the same applies to the garden: Skillful planning makes life easier and in many cases you can easily kill two birds with one stone. More and more garden owners are using raised beds to protect their vegetables from the voracious snails. However, growing vegetables in a raised bed offers even more advantages:
- a thicker, permeable layer of topsoil for root vegetables
- easy work and weeding without bending down
- better drying and utilization of the sun's heat
With a clever choice of location, raised beds can fulfill a function in the garden that goes beyond their practical purpose. The raised beds, usually made of wood with an average height of around 1.20 m, can act as a privacy screen for the terrace, the pool or a seating area in the right place.
Improve the privacy factor of the raised bed through clever landscape planning
The privacy factor provided by a raised bed is basically limited by the height of the raised bed. But of course there are ways to maximize the privacy effect of raised beds with an interesting landscape design in the garden. For this purpose, raised beds are simply set up in a garden area that is raised naturally or artificially by earth filling. Conversely, a seating area behind the raised bed can also be integrated into the garden in such a way that a deepening of the ground creates a particularly private corner for relaxing in the fresh air.
These tall vegetables turn the raised bed into a seasonal privacy screen
The privacy factor of a raised bed does not have to end at the top edge of the respective raised bed material. During the gardening season, you can use your raised bed as a high privacy screen like a hedge if you grow high-growing vegetables such as leeks, pointed cabbage or Brussels sprouts.
tips
Insert trellis into the soil on the inside of your raised bed and plant them with beans. You can also loosen up this natural privacy screen with annual climbing plants such as the climbing nasturtium.