How to make them harmonious

Integrate raised beds harmoniously and practically into the garden

If you mainly want to grow vegetables, you should create several raised beds if possible - especially when you provide yourself and your family with as many home-grown vegetables as possible want. However, so that these raised beds do not look like boxes placed randomly in the garden, a well thought-out and harmonious grouping is recommended.

Frame the terrace with raised beds

Two or three raised beds are particularly attractive and practical at the same time. to use a seat. The beds can be with vegetables planting - extremely practical when the patio door is near the kitchen - or as Privacy screen with correspondingly tall trees or shrubs. For example, berry bushes or low fruit trees are very suitable - you and your family can still nibble fresh fruit from the bush over coffee in the afternoon.

Terrace culture with raised beds

Another very smart idea is the staggering of raised vegetable beds of different heights or the combination of raised beds with vegetation of different heights. Beds with tomatoes, runner beans or berry bushes stay in the background and are positioned in front of walls, walls or fences. One floor below there are lower raised beds or those with lower-growing vegetables such as cabbage, leek or zucchini. However, think about the necessary space between the beds - otherwise you will not be able to cultivate or harvest the rear bed.

Build a suitable raised bed for your terrace yourself

If you only have a small garden, but have a lot of terrace, you can use the raised bed or the raised beds too without ground contact place directly on the terrace. Table raised beds, for example, are very suitable for this, but "classic" raised beds closed at the bottom can also be set up. One problem in this case, however, is the lack of drainage for excess irrigation and rainwater: if you have such a raised terrace bed If you want to build yourself, you have to somehow find a form of drainage - for example by placing perforated boxes in the bedding boxes (e.g. B. Plastic shopping baskets). These are best placed on bricks so that the water can run off and the plants do not get “wet feet”.