Jul 13 2010
Can A Raised Vegetable Garden Save 90% Of Your Time?
A raised vegetable garden is not just a pretty ornament to make your garden look nice - they can produce an endless supply of healthy food with very little time. In this article I want to point out just how much time you save with a raised garden as opposed to traditional gardening techniques.
It’s so common for gardeners to plant their crops in long lines about a yard apart. However, this method takes up much, much more time than is needed. Why? The answer is digging and weeding.
It’s not down to lazyness, but more due to their not being enough hours in the day to fit it in to their busy schedule. Usually, only when the children have grown up and left for college that the parents can start to consider growing vegetables - which is a shame as there is a great shortcut to all this hard labor….. raised bed gardens.
So why isn’t there a raised vegetable garden in every backyard? Because of tradition. It’s the way it’s always been done, and not many people know the secrets of raised beds.
Planting in lines has been done for generations and generations, going right back to the agricultural revolution. This layout was first conceived to allow ploughs to be dragged over fields, and a scaled down version was adopted by gardeners. The problem is that for small spaces, this is really not that efficient in terms of both the space usage and the amount of time needed to prepare and maintain the garden.
Digging put most people off the idea of growing your own vegetables at home. If that isn’t bad enough, you’ve also got to weed the soil. But when using a raided vegetable garden, these issues are no longer a proble as the plants are so space-efficient that the weeds have no space to grow.
Since there are no aisles needed between rows, you can grow at least 4 times the amount of produce in your own garden. This means that you can grow more veggies, or that you can reclaim your garden and build that shed that you previously had no space for.
There are other advantages of raised vegetable gardens such as needing 80% less water, and being able to grow on bad soil, or any surface for that matter. Yet, the best reason for making a raised bed is the amount of time it saves. I’m not joking when I say that people could save 90% of the time spent gardening. As opposed to spending over an hour on the garden each day, you only need to give it a couple of minutes.
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