Flowers in the raised bed: ideal temporary use
A former, now largely rotten one Vegetable raised bed is made for typical meadow flowers like Corn poppy, Cornflower, Corn wheel, field delphinium, chamomile, dyer's chamomile and Daisy to accommodate. They thrive much better on a nutrient-poor, loose soil than, for example, on a meadow. Before the sowing you do not have to rebuild the raised bed layers, instead just fill in a lean substrate. With a bit of luck, the arrival of seeds will result in unexpected surprise guests such as Mullein, Evening primrose or wild teasel. You can re-open the wildflower bed every year - the above-mentioned annual seeds themselves - or the raised bed, if necessary, simply again for growing vegetables reactivate.
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Green manure with summer flowers
Marigolds, lupins, bee friend, sunflowers, mallow and clover are in many
Green manure mixes included, with which you can grow your raised bed in between and so for replenishment with fresh nutrients care for. You will be delighted by the lush flowers over the summer eyeAfter blooming, simply let the plants rot over the winter.Suitable types for low-maintenance raised beds
Various summer flowers from the bedding and balcony plant range such as lobelia, summer sage, Beard thread, Spider flowers, zinnias, snapdragons, Elven mirror, Nasturtiums or Cape Sunflower can be cultivated on a raised bed, but they require a little more attention than the wildflowers already described. During the summer months you should regularly feed these flowers with suitable liquid fertilizers.
Colorful signs of spring in the raised bed
Plant the bulbs of tulips as early as August or September, Daffodils, Bluestars, Grape hyacinths and other spring flowers, you can look forward to a wonderful sea of flowers in the following spring. When the onion flowers turn their first soft green in March, it is best to still set them Gold lacquer, colorful Primroses, forget Me Not, Maßliebchen, Horned violets and Pansy added. When the spring-like splendor is over, the onions can stay in the bed. On the other hand, withered pansies and Co. are removed and replaced with annual summer flowers.
Tips
If you cultivate the spring flowers as a preculture in the raised vegetable bed, you should do so after they have faded Take out the bulbs and keep them in a dry box until the end of summer store. Then plant the vegetables you want.
