RAISED VEGETABLE GARDEN BED, ORGANIC PLANTING, AND LANDSCAPING ROLLED IN ONE

RAISED VEGETABLE GARDEN BED, ORGANIC PLANTING, AND LANDSCAPING ROLLED IN ONE

Article by AnaDew

There are several reasons why Raised Garden Bed method goes hand in hand with organic planting and landscaping. In fact, I’ve tried it out myself and yielded good results. Here are some tips of the trade that you guys can try:

I. First off, construct your raised vegetable garden bed and apply your own personal touch when building it. It’s always inspiring to see your own work and it’s always nice to work in an environment that relates to your personality.What I did since I’m a vegetable lover is that I selected a permanent location in my back yard and mapped out two 4×5 ft garden beds with a height of 2ft. Using cobble stones, cement, and big milestones I constructed the frame of the garden beds then built a small pond in front of the 2 beds with a height of 12 inches that ran through the middle of the pre-mapped area forming a T shaped pond in between the two beds.You may want to try out your own creativity and ideas to create your own landscaped raised vegetable garden beds.

II. After construction, it’s now time for you to apply the organic planting technique. Look for loam type of soil, since this type of soil is a combination of silt, sand, and clay, it makes it perfect for planting because of its fine and course qualities. Then mix it with decomposing leaves, compost, or cow manure and then add the final touch, add earthworms to the soil to help with the decomposition of dead organic matter and help with the mixing of your nutrient rich soil.Raised Garden Beds are suitable for organic planting because it allows you to control the soil that you use for your plants. The soil mixture that I used was a combination of cow and horse manure, decomposing pile of vegetables, loam, and compost, a big pile of leaves, and lots and lots of earthworms.III. Once everything is set, you can now plant! While waiting for your seeds to grow, you can finish your landscaping by adding the final touches.What I did for my landscape is I connected the two garden beds with a bridge and placed several bonsai trees to make the entire settings look like two small islands. Then, for the final touch I added figurines to imitate little people in the island and Japanese Koi fishes in the pond. After several weeks, my plants started growing and made the entire landscape come to life!So you see, there are a lot of uses for Raised Garden Beds it’s clearly not only for gardening and organic planting; you can also use it for landscaping it all just depends on how you look at it.

About the Author

The author has been doing vegetable gardening for almost 5 years and discovered gardening techniques that are essential for growing vegetables in limited spaces. Are you one of those people who love gardening but don’t have much space in their backyard to start one? Well, check the author’s site http://www.raisedvegetablegardenbeds.com and check how wonderful raised vegetable garden beds are in making your gardening dreams a reality.