What better beds: narrow, high, combs ...
You thought it best are the beds as you? Yes, if you find "your" type beds, which is great.
Perfect beds there. Because in some areas close to the ground water, they are vital to high beds for most crops. On the other, on the contrary, dry summers, better almost in the hole to plant.
If I did a full review of the types of beds by type of soil and suitable crops, would have been on-the-very long article.
Write only a few principles, perhaps some of them will suit you.
Principle number 1 - fenced off bed
It's almost a perfect bed, suitable for any type of soil. The easiest way to: isolate a narrow board. Sold zinc "beds". Enclose stones, slate, decorative borders, etc.
Benefits
- Weeds, if so, only vagrants
- It is clear how to make fertilizer
- Suitable for most crops
disadvantages
- Not suitable for conventional growing pumpkins, melons
- A little uncomfortable weeding hoe or near the skirting ploskorez
- Not for digging. If there are underground pests dig their way to the shovel will not work.
- You can not change width based on crop rotation (make narrower or wider), we constantly change the width of the beds.
Principle number 2 - combs
Maybe you know some other culture which is uniquely well-planted in the ridges, I know the root celery. Earth itself gradually releases the spine, the extra lateral roots can not even have time to form.
Planting and potatoes, and onions. However, some do not quite appreciate the abundance of the harvest, others are unhappy.
The main drawback of the ridges - they are washed away with water. It is not always the way we want.
Principle № 3 - high ridges
I have them for the third year in a large greenhouse. Fenced boards. It was convenient to put the remnants of tomatoes and sprinkle them with earth. Or simply fill up fresh ground. Now there was only one bed, where the land is not the top. Fill it in this year, and it is necessary to switch to a different technology, so as not to shoot a good primer.
If a high bed not in the greenhouse, it requires a special mode of irrigation, because it dries faster. On level ground the soil through the capillaries, and plant roots pull moisture from the lower layers, and when the extra 40 cm at the top, try to draw out.
Outdoors me these beds are contraindicated. If the 40 days it does not rain as often happened, I tortured watered.
In high beds poor will grow cold-resistant culture, it will be hot :)
Correct high ridges
- The bed in the sandy soil at the bottom filled with expanded clay, top quality imported black soil.
- warm beds
- If there is a problem with rodents, the bottom of the beds can be put small metal mesh.
- High bed is good where near groundwater
- The bed of the KDP or more expensive fencing is usually done for appearance
A few words about some of the other types of
Narrow beds, in my opinion, it is more convenient in all respects. From 45 cm to 60 cm - is a comfortable bed. Their only drawback - a place not saved. Therefore, they are made usually from 80 cm to 1 m.
Wide beds are ideal for pumpkin, corn and melons. I they are 1 m wide, would have preferred a wider pumpkin. Uncomfortable weeding, mulch saves.
Narrow trenches for hill crops (potatoes), you might really like. Not suitable for this type of beds lowlands and wet summer.
What kind of beds do you prefer and why?
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