Creating your own vegetable raised bed garden is an excellent way to economize and head off over paying for produce. This type of gardening can also be very rewarding in terms of the satisfaction derived from growing your own food.
Compared to ground level gardens working in a raised bed vegetable garden is less of a burden when doing weeding, sowing, and harvesting. If you don’t already know weeding is one of the major maintenance activities to owning a garden. Anything that saves a little of that work is usually well worth the effort.
Raised bed gardens have been around since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, where flowers were grown in tiers. These ancient civiliazations had the right idea. Defining the growing space of plants allows for efficient landscape design.
Getting started in vegetable raised bed gardening is relatively easy. Decide which plants will thrive in a raised bed and which plants you like the best. Vegetables grown at a height of 1 foot are going to give their produce at your chest level, or stomach level. So you are not going to bend down to harvest those vegetables.
A raised bed garden also has the advantage of being able to tailor the quality of the soil. A raise bed has the benefit of less weeding than a ground level bed due to close spacing between plants and less space for the weeds to grow.
Another benefit is that people in the garden walk around the perimeter of the raised bed and not in the garden itself.
A raised bed will thrive if you choose a place that has good drainage and plenty of sun.
The walls of the bed should be selected of durable material that will weather the elements.This could be pressure treated wood, plastic composites, or wood composites.
Once you have measured the right space, bought the restricting sidewall material, the fertilizer and soil and filled the bed then sow the seeds, water regularly, and reap the harvest of your vegetable raised bed garden.
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