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Build a herb bed yourself - the advantages

In order to keep your own small herb and medicinal garden, a simple cultivation in the open does not always make sense. Especially if your garden does not have a suitable space for it or you only have a balcony. In that case, it makes sense to make a box bed out of wood yourself. Framing with subdivisions is also useful in order to segment herbs with different requirements from one another. A raised bed also has special plant-related and handling advantages.

So what speaks for building a box herb bed yourself:

• Mobility - freer choice of location
• Possible segmentation of different herbs
• more influence on the substrate and easier management of the raised bed

The box bed in the open

If you have a suitable place in the open air for your herb bed, you can still structure it well with a wooden structure. It delimits the herb culture from the outside and can take into account the vegetative properties of the planned herbs with separate inner boxes. For example, varieties that spread and grow strongly, such as lemon balm or peppermint, can be kept in check.

In addition, the individual box segments can be filled with different soil mixes - for example, you can use herbs that require nutrients such as parsley, lemon verbena or tarragon and varieties with a preference for poor soil such as thyme, rosemary or marjoram in a confined space cultivate.

Of course, you can also leave such a functional box bed as a low, free-standing construction and not sink it into the open air. Then it is a bit more noticeable, but also mobile in case of doubt for site experiments or wintering.

The herbal raised bed

With the free-standing box bed, we are no longer far from the raised bed - only that the raised bed is, according to its name, even higher and thus offers further advantages.

On the one hand, this results in a comfortable working height - you can go to for even more comfort Your wooden construction still has side, all-round bench surfaces with cross supports or legs screwed at the bottom attach. For the care of the herb planting and the harvest, this can be very pleasant, especially for older people.

On the other hand, you can put together a deeper substrate in a raised bed construction - insofar as it is suitable A herbal raised bed is especially suitable for varieties that require nutrients such as chives, parsley, or basil Lovage. With a herbal raised bed made of wood, you also give the plants a relatively temperature-resistant and breathing soil climate.

Build it yourself - pay attention to the size

For a box bed at ground level, you should not estimate more than 1.20 m in width and length. Otherwise access will be difficult. Boards about 40 cm high are suitable for the construction.

With a raised herb bed, you can of course go further with the edge length - provided that the depth still allows you to reach the herbs planted in the middle. The rule of thumb of a maximum of 1.20 m also applies here.