Why Raised Bed Gardens are the best !

Quite simply, with a contained raised bed garden, you can create the ideal growing environment in your own backyard, select the ideal location, and create the ideal soil condition,  to meet your own personal gardening needs .. a large garden or small, one or many, standard or customized.

ü    Achieve super high yields  …  Deep, wide beds with rich, loose soil give you super root growth 

ü    Grow more in less space, any space … Ideal where space may be limited or where the soil is less than ideal

ü    Garden with greater ease and comfort  … No bending, No kneeling, No aching

ü    Enjoy aesthetically pleasing design… A beautiful eco-friendly addition to your backyard landscape

ü    Work less with greater efficiency … Easier to weed, water, fertilize, maintain

ü    Get started earlier and enjoy longer growing season … Soil warms earlier, stays warm longer

ü    Maintain easier crop rotation …Multiple isolated beds enable easy crop rotation, soil amendment

ü    Manage pests and disease  … Raised beds offer degree of pest and disease deterrence 

Super High Yields … Deep, rich, loosely packed soil   

·         A raised bed garden allows you to create a deep wide rich growing environment for your plants.

·         Although roto-tilling will typically loosen soil in a regular garden to a depth of about nine inches, plants can grow much more extensive root systems if given additional depth, width and the right soil conditions.  

·         Roots absorb moisture and nutrients that are found in the spaces between soil particles.   

·         Loose soil provides good drainage, enabling water, air and fertilizer to penetrate easily to the roots of your plants, thereby supporting abundant root growth both vertically and horizontally.  

·         In a traditional narrow row garden, walking on soil exerts pressure that compresses the soil, restricting air and water entry and movement within the soil.

·         In a raised bed garden, you get both depth and width, and because no one steps into the beds, the soil remains loose and aerated, with no compaction.   

Grow More in Less Space … Ideal for urban settings where space may be limited

·         Because you don’t need to reserve space for walking in a raised bed garden, plants can be spaced closer together enabling dense planting and thus increase productivity per square foot.   

·         A wide bed garden will provide 5 to 10 times more un-compacted soil to your plants in the same amount of space as in a traditional garden.

Greater Ease and Comfort … No bending, no kneeling, no aching

·         Our raised bed gardens bring your garden closer to you.  No more bending over or kneeling to pull weeds or trim plants.  By raising the soil level, we make your raised bed gardens just the right height so it's comfortable to work alongside.   

·         With our wide seat top, you can sit down at your raised garden bed and work in a comfortable position, easily reaching all areas of the garden.  

Aesthetically pleasing and Eco-friendly ... A safe and beautiful addition to your backyard landscape

·         Contained raised beds tend to bring more order and pleasing geometry to your garden.  They can be designed to meet your personal specifications and dimensions, and personalize to achieve harmony with your existing backyard living space.

·         We use only untreated wood in the construction of your raised bed garden.  If you want to add colour to your garden structure, we can paint it using genuine Old Fashioned Milk Paint, guaranteed to be environmentally safe, fully biodegradable, completely non-toxic  and entirely solvent free with zero VOC’s.   

·         Walkways around and/or between beds can remain grass, can be compacted to bare dirt, or can be layered with a variety of materials, e.g. gravel, river rock, stone.

Less Work, Greater Efficiency … Easier to weed, water, fertilize, maintain

Easier to weed

·         Wide beds enable denser planting with leaves just touching, inhibiting weeds because soil is shaded

·         For weeds that do grow, they are easier to pull out of the loose soil since there is no compaction.  

Easier and more efficient use of water  

·         Watering can be concentrated with efficient irrigation systems easily installed in wide beds, allowing you to direct water right to the plants, not the walkways.  e.g. soaker hoses, drip irrigators

·         Deep beds provide a reservoir for water, making more water available, requiring less frequent watering.

·         With dense planting, raised bed gardens can create a microclimate that saves water by reducing evaporation.   

Easier and more efficient to fertilize and maintain ideal soil properties

•   Raised beds are the solution when topsoil is thin or not suitable for gardening purposes
• Soil conditions can be easily amended, with fertillizer, compost and mulch applied more carefully and efficiently
• Because soil never gets compacted, it is easier to work amendments in.  No more back breaking days of labour to work the soil, no more "roto-tilling" or digging year after year.
• With minimal soil maintenance requirements, most soil conditioning tasks can be met with the use of hand tools.  No need for expensive tools and equipment.

 

Earlier and Longer Growing Season

• Raised beds can extend your gardening season.  They  warm up sooner in the spring, allowing you to work the soil and plant earlier, and they remain productive longer in the fall. 

 

Easier Crop Rotation

• Crop rotation allows you to keep a particular family of vegetables from modifying the soil nutrients after continuous years of planting in the same location.  With multiple beds you can maximize the benefits of crop rotation by managing different soil characteristics among isolated beds.

 

Pest and Disease Deterrence

·         Crop rotation also helps in pest and disease management by relocating crops away from troubled soil.  

·         Contained raised bed gardens can serve to deter pests such as slugs and snails.

·         Other friendlier “pests”, such as dogs and children, may not be so likely to run through your garden bed when it’s contained and raised.

What exactly is a Raised Bed Garden?

A raised bed garden is built on top of your resident soil, sometimes incorporating existing soil, sometimes filled with new soil.   Adding soil on top is an easier way of achieving deep soil, compared to working the soil deeper below. 

 

Raised bed gardens can be free form or they can be contained by a structure built of a variety of materials such as wood or stone, to keep the bed intact.