Recently, more gardeners are moving away from the usual rectangular forms of beds, trying to give the garden a pleasant and interesting view. The whole use of land for growing vegetables and greens is preserved. There are lots of options for decorating beds in the cottage. Let's consider some of them.
Kinds of beds in the country
First of all, beds can differ in their shape and be square, rounded, in the form of animals, with abstract outlines. There are absolutely no restrictions on this. Only when designing and arranging them you need to pay attention to the features of the relief.
There is only one recommendation regarding the shape and size of the bed: it must be accessed from all sides, so that it can be reached without difficulty to its middle. Especially it concerns the beds near the fence - their width should be such that you can easily reach its second edge.
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Quite popular mixed beds in the country, when plants are planted not in monotonous rows, but in close proximity to other cultures. This gives a positive result not only from the point of view of aesthetics, but, first of all, with agronomic. With such beds, you can achieve increased yield on your site. But you just need to be able to correctly combine cultures. Together grow well:
- onions and carrots;
- tomatoes and cabbage;
- cabbage, onions and dill;
- radishes and carrots;
- salad, beets and tomatoes;
- parsley, cabbage lettuce and kohlrabi cabbage;
- salad and parsnip.
In this combination plants will develop better. But there are incompatible cultures that suppress and oppress neighbors. You do not need to plant such crops on one crop as, for example, cucumbers and onions - the yield of cucumbers will be low, and forcing the onion on the pen will stop.
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Many people prefer to equip high beds in the country to facilitate labor and increase yields. A huge plus of these beds is that by technology you put a metal mesh on their bottom to protect against rodents, and then fill with organic, which will slowly decompose, making the soil soaked and warm.
As a fence of high beds, wooden boards are used most often, but there are variants with wickerwork, metal profile, concrete, brick and so on.
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If there are not enough places without giving, you can try to increase the useful area due to vertical beds . There are certain cultures that are well suited to the vertical way of growing. This - strawberries, onions, salads, spices, zucchini, cucumbers and so on.
Vertical beds in the garden can be made with the help of ordinary stingrays, wooden boxes, and you can even use fences or walls of farm buildings, nailing plastic boxes with them on the ground.
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Another option for a miniature villa is a mini-garden. In this case, vegetables and greens are not planted on a garden or a greenhouse, but in containers and pots. Also containers can serve as boxes, vases, old pots and buckets, tires.
In such mini-beds spicy herbs (spinach, lemon balm, coriander, dill, basil, mint) grow well, as well as vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers).
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Soil cultivation in beds
In any bed it is necessary to pay due attention to the soil. As a rule, it is dug twice a year - in spring and in autumn. This is accompanied by the introduction of organic and mineral fertilizers. In the autumn digging lumps and lumps do not need to be broken - so in winter in the garden more pests of all kinds of pests will die, and moisture will preserve the soil better.
Also during the autumn digging, it is not superfluous to cover the surface of the beds with a mixture of peat, sawdust and rotted compost. In the spring, all this layer will need to be removed and only after this to dig up the earth.