Vegetables and fruit from your own garden?
This is the best way to plant your raised bed
Created: 02/17/2022Updated: 02/17/2022 4:56 p.m
By: Janine Napirca
When planting the raised bed, good planning is particularly important.
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Are you toying with the idea of growing vegetables and fruit in your own garden?
Then you should not miss the tips for planting a raised bed.
Nothing tastes as good as food prepared with fruit from your own garden.
But if the space is not particularly lavish, you have to think carefully about which types of vegetables and fruit you want to cultivate.
If you follow these growing tips for planting in raised beds, you can get the most out of your garden.
This is how you find the right location for your raised bed in your own garden
In order to grow vegetables and fruit in a raised bed in the garden, it is first of all important
to find the right location
.
Because once planted, raised beds cannot simply be repotted.
So that your cultivated plants do not fight for light, water or nutrients, you should choose a location with sufficient sunlight.
In addition, you must
not cultivate the seeds and seedlings too close together
.
Don't underestimate how big some strains can get.
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What is the best way to plant my raised bed?
There are plants that are particularly well suited to growing in a raised bed, such as cucumbers or zucchini, and then there are varieties, such as corn, that take up a lot of space all year round, although the harvest is comparatively less productive.
Depending on what you want to plant your raised bed with, the nutrients to use are different.
A distinction is made between
heavy, medium and weak consumers
.
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In the
first two years
, when the soil still consists of good soil, compost and nutritious organic material, you should cultivate heavy feeders in your raised bed.
These include
cabbage, cucumber, potato, squash, zucchini, leek and celery
.
In the
third year
you can then grow medium-eaters such as
endive, fennel, kohlrabi, chard, carrots, radicchio, radishes, beetroot, sugar loaf and strawberries
.
From the
fourth year
, it is best to cultivate the following weak consumers in your raised bed:
beans, peas, garlic, radishes, lettuce, spinach, onions and herbs
.
In the fifth year the raised bed has lowered, you can fill it up again with fertilizer and compost and start cultivating heavy feeders.
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Mixed culture, pre-culture, post-culture - this is how you can plant your raised bed efficiently
You will get the most harvest from your raised bed if you orientate yourself on mixed, pre- and post-culture.
Mixed culture means that plants with different requirements are combined next to each other in such a way that they do not hinder each other's growth, but encourage it.
Deep taproot alongside shallow root system, large plants alongside small ones
.
In addition, strong-smelling herbs, such as basil, can drive the harmful away from other plants.
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Growing pre-culture and post-culture in the same spot also allows you to make the most of the space in your raised bed.
Fennel or Chinese cabbage, for example, are sown late.
This means that you can grow pre-crops such as lettuce, spinach or radishes in the same spot beforehand.
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