For ages, gardening involved digging, weeding and regular watering. Bending over and sweating it out was inevitable while gardening during the traditional times. With the evolution of new designs, gone are days of aching backs and tilling the soil. With the invention of raised garden beds, gardening has become a pleasurable experience. Raised bed gardening is perfect for small plots of vegetables and flowers. The raised garden bed keeps the weed away from the garden soil and prevents soil erosion. It provides good drainage for the garden and serves as a barrier to pests such as slugs, rats and snails.
Raised beds are available in a variety of different materials and sizes or they can be made with minimum difficulty. Raised gardening is great for households with a small backyard as it produces more per square feet than ordinary beds. Raised flower beds bring order and beauty to one’s garden as the soil level is raised and it gives a pleasing geometry to one’s garden. The raised garden bed kit is normally made of different kinds of wood. Cedar is most commonly used wood as they look naturally beautiful and are resistant to rot and insects.
Raised garden bed kits are available at reasonable prices. This encourages more people to take up gardening in spite of limited space availability. Not only does it add to the aesthetic value of the house, but it also contributes towards the environment. If every house, every apartment have a small little garden, it will create wonders to the depleting environmental conditions. These raised gardens can be moved from one spot to the other with great ease. One of the main advantages of raised garden beds is water conservation. Watering of raised garden beds normally is in most cases done through drip irrigation. This technique uses 30 - 50% less water than conventional watering methods such as sprinklers and watering directing through pipes. Drip irrigation not only saves water time and energy, it also improves the growth of the plants and discourages the growth of weed. Another main advantage of raised garden beds is that it helps reduce soil erosion as it prevents the topsoil and fertilizers from getting washed away or blown. The other benefit of raised flower bed is that it promotes natural aeration and drainage. As worms and other soil life are important to healthy soil structure, their channels provide aeration and drainage.
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