More and more friends like to grow their own vegetables to meet the daily needs of their families. But for some friends, the natural conditions in their backyard or vegetable garden may not be suitable for the growth of vegetables. For example, the light time is short, and the soil is not suitable for vegetable growth. For such friends, garden planting beds have become their good choice.

For those of you who haven't built your own garden beds, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Today olle will talk to you about 5 factors that need to be considered before building a garden planting bed. help.

1. The size of the garden planting bed

The width of the garden planting bed is generally less than 1.2 meters, and the length is generally controlled at 1.8-2.4 meters. This size planting bed allows you to take care of all your vegetables without having to walk in while planting. And it's not a long detour to go from one side to the other.

The height of garden planting beds is also important. If your garden planting beds are placed on a concrete surface, the minimum height of the planting area should be 25-30 cm. If the bottom is land, this has little effect.

2. Where to set up the planting bed

Garden beds don't have to be in your backyard vegetable garden, they can be placed on grass in your front yard or on a walkway next to your garage. As long as there is sufficient sunlight.

3. How to prevent ground grass from growing into flower beds

The method of weeding is actually very simple. The method I recommend is to spread a layer of cardboard where the planting bed meets the ground, then add nutrient soil to the garden planting bed. After about three months, the grass on the ground will rot and then further decompose into organs.

When weeding in this manner, garden beds should be set in fall. This gives the underlying grass enough time to rot and decompose before the following spring planting is ready for use.

With this method of weeding, you can't immediately grow those deep-rooted vegetables. You can choose to plant vegetables with shallow root systems, such as lettuce, spinach, amaranth, etc.

4. Selection of garden bed soil

Do not use pastoral soil dug from the vegetable garden, which is not very permeable to water and air. Use organic nutrient soil such as compost as much as possible, so that the vegetables grown in the future will be of high quality.

A more economical option is to prepare the soil for your garden planting beds yourself. The simple formula is 50% pastoral soil + 50% other various organic matter, such as compost, peat soil, cow and sheep dung, etc.

The biggest cost of garden planting beds is the soil, and many friends are not aware of this problem. So be sure to have a rough estimate before making your garden beds.

5. How to Secure Garden Planting Beds

After the garden planting bed has been used for a period of time, it will be deformed due to force. Generally, it extends from the top to the outside, which is quite normal. The reason for this is, on the one hand, the pressure of the soil, and on the other hand, because the soil is wet, the wood will spread.

Therefore, it is very important to fully consider how to fix the garden planting bed in the early stage. Because the garden planting bed is deformed, it is almost impossible to repair it.

This is the main factor that we need to consider before building a garden planting bed. In the actual construction process, we need to make adjustments according to our own situation. For example, some friends don't want to bend over to grow vegetables all the time, so they can raise the garden planting bed a little bit. Some friends have built a small garden planting bed, so they need to consider the problem of fixing. You don't want your garden planting beds to be moving slowly.