Do you know that your backyard is not the only place where you can create your organic garden? Depending on your convenience, there are other ways that you can use to raise plants.
A container garden in your patio is ideal if you have kids, so that you can save on space.
Try soil-less gardening or hydrophonics if you don't want to get your hands dirty.
Or if you have adequate space and ample time, you may opt to do raised bed organic gardening.
As the name implies, raised bed organic gardening requires beds three to four feet wide where you would put the soil.
The shape and length depends on your preference and the availability of space.
Afterwards, you may use a wood or rock frame to elevate the soil from the soil around it before adding organic compost.
Plants are set closely together in raised bed organic gardening.
It follows a geometrical pattern in plant spacing unlike in the conventional row garden.
The reason behind is to have the foliage of plants hardly in contact with each other thus resulting to a microclimate with conserved moisture and limited weed production.
Raised bed organic gardening comes with a number of benefits.
Planting season can be prolonged using this.
In addition, since the soil cannot be stepped on, the roots retain their spacing therefore growth is maximized.
Using compost and placing the plants closely together also bring about greater yield especially when the plants remain undisturbed.
Most importantly, a raised bed organic garden set up as high as the waist helps old and sick crops to grow with less exerted effort.
What's fun about raised bed organic garden is that you can customize it to your liking.
You may choose the plants you like to grow and the materials for the frame of the bed.
In addition, you can also do companion gardening with it, that is, growing together plants that will be beneficial to each other in ways like replenishing nutrients the other one needs.
Due to the structure of the raised bed organic garden, soil erosion is reduced allowing plant nutrients and water to be recycled and conserved especially when constructed on slopes' contour lines.
You can also make more than one garden if you wish as long as you still have space for it.
Go on; try personalizing your own raised bed organic garden today.
You will surely have fun doing it.
A more creative and efficient way of caring for your plants that ensures pest control, high yield and plant growth.
What's a little more effort for that?