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 approach is much much more time consuming than it need be. 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. Often it’s only when the kids have left home that parents finally have the time to grow vegetables – which is a shame as there is a fantastic short cut to all this hard work…. raised bed gardens.
So why isn’t there a raised vegetable garden in every backyard? Because of tradition. Its just the way it has always been done, and nobody seems to know how much better raised beds are.
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, you’ve also got to weed the soil. But in the case of the raised vegetable garden, these problems are no longer an issue since 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 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. It’s no joke that as much as 90% of time spent gardening can be saved. 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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