Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Designs

Using a raised garden bed design is an excellent way to get more garden out of a limited amount of space.  By raising each plant up rather than out, more crops can grow at one time.  Some plants grow much better in the raised garden bed design.  Plants like squash and cucumbers prefer a raised garden bed.  Strawberries flourish in the raised beds as well.  If kept in their own space, these raised beds will produce a larger harvest of vegetables and fruit. The weeds are kept to a minimum where the plants grow because the raised beds allow only enough room for each plant. There is little to no space for weeds to take over.

Weeds will manage find their way into any garden and they need to be tended to with as much attention as is spent on the garden itself.  If left to grow in between the raised beds, they will soon seed and take over the garden.  When they are left to grow, they also become tough and sometimes thorny, making it extremely hard to remove them.

The best way to get weeds out is to pick them when they break through the surface of the soil.  This is why a raised garden bed design is so useful.  When seeing plants that are small but outside of the raised beds, a person doesn’t have to wait to see if it is a weed or a plant.  Pick anything outside of the raised beds. It's best to wait a little longer to pull weeds in the raised beds just to make sure it isn't a plant.

Raised Garden Bed Designs Offer Protection

If the gardener’s home is in a northern climate, a raised garden bed design can actually insulate root systems during the cold of winter.  Some plants will return every year to reproduce more fruit or vegetables.  An example of this would be strawberries. The raised garden bed's soil will insulate the roots.  They will come back year after year as long as the gardener puts down a little mulch at the end of the season.  The same is true for rhubarb plants.  Take care of them and you will be rewarded with a new crop every year.

The bottom line is this: a raised garden bed design is an excellent way to keep a garden healthy without using any sprays or pesticides.  If a person has never gardened with raised beds, this coming year would be an excellent time to begin.  Talk to neighbors who might use this design or go to a nursery where workers are experienced with this kind of garden.  They will be very helpful in planning out a raised garden in the space you have available.  Just make sure to take a drawing with the dimensions on it, and this garden will be spectacular.