Spring is on its way and that means it's time to prepare for your warm weather garden! Have your picked out your plants? Check. Soil & Compost? Check. Determined your location? Check. Now wait - have you thought of a raised garden?
If you are interested in getting your garden started easily and quickly, creating a raised garden is the only way to go. By creating a raised garden, you choose your location, build the walls of your raised garden and fill it with dirt and the plants and flowers of your choice. No weeding, tilling, or removing rocks! It's the simplest way to beautify a small space and keep everything neat and organized.
There are many great advantages of a raised bed garden. Here are a few reasons why you should look into starting your next plot in a raised garden bed:
* Reduces compacted soil. In a traditional garden, you can't avoid walking in the garden while tending to your gardening tasks. With a properly designed raised garden, you can easily work on your entire garden from the walkway leaving your plants untouched and unharmed. This also eliminates the gardener getting dirty and tracking soil and plant material outside of the bed.
* Raised gardens also drain more efficiently, keeping your garden safe from saturated soil as well as enabling you to control the condition of your soil. Water won't pool around plants and attract insects and animals.
* Due to eliminating the need for walking THROUGH the garden, you can plant closer together increasing weeding as plants grow. Grouping clusters of plants together is also a lot easier, making fun color combinations simpler to make.
* Instead of drawing up an entire landscaping plan that is usually time consuming, expensive and tedious to put together, raised garden beds are affordable and only require a couple of tools to assemble.
* Adding an organized look to your garden and helping extend your gardening season as the soil warms up sooner in the spring and in the late fall is another advantage of using raised garden beds to keep your plants, flowers fruits and vegetables neat and orderly.
There are many more advantages of a raised garden, I think one of the most important that I didn't list above is you can garden from your garden path, you don't have to bend over as much to weed. This eliminates back pain and lets you plant as much as you want! You can garden from the comfort of a small bench and easily pull your gardening tools with you in a little garden wagon on the path. This makes gardening easier on the back and much more enjoyable.
Raised garden beds also allow you to design and landscape your yard much more easily. Form a traditional corner plot or make something much more intricate with diagonal or L shapes. These raised beds also hold necessary water and nutrients really well, while allowing excess fluids to drain, leaving manageable and healthy soil.
Author Resource:
Everett Rose is an avid gardener, horticulturalist and botanist. She is constantly doing research for a variety of publications and journals, and feels that raised garden beds are the ideal solution for small-scale landscaping.
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