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 requires far, far more time than necessary. Why? The answer is digging and weeding.
It’s not beause people are too lazy to do their gardening, it’s because few peple have the time avaiable in their hectic lives. 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 of the soil is a job that puts millions off growing their own vegetables in their home. If that isn’t bad enough, then you’ve also got to get rid of all those weeds. 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.
As there are no spaces left between rows, you can fit about 4 times more plants in the same area. This means that either you can grow more vegetables or have more space in your garden for the lawn, shed, patio, etc.
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 am not kidding when I say that you can save 90% your 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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