Beds for the lazy: photos and recommendations for creating a vegetable garden. The best types of beds for growing cucumbers Mobile beds in boxes
The season of beds and fields is approaching, which means it's time to start replenishing your arsenal of knowledge in the field of gardening.
In a new review on concrete examples will be shown new, very interesting ways design of green spaces and beds on your site. Happy viewing, folks.
1. Orderly garden
Instead of randomly planting an entire summer cottage with vegetables, create a neat, fenced garden on your territory, with separate beds for growing different crops.
To create such a garden, you will need boards, a grid and available wooden and metal containers. Plank beds dug into the ground are perfect for growing cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, while metal and wooden containers can be used for growing zucchini, pumpkins and herbs.
2. Raised beds with support
Cucumbers, melons, legumes and any other liana plants are very demanding to care for. These plants need warm soil. a large number of sunlight, and eventually also a support. For successful cultivation such plants are best suited raised beds, which can be made from wooden planks. Between the two beds should be placed a trellis from a bent mesh.
3. Spiral beds
On a plot with limited space, it makes sense to build spiral beds. Such structures look very attractive and are perfect for growing greens, herbs, carrots, strawberries and flowers.
4. Raised beds
To create raised beds, you can use bricks and paving slabs. Such a trick will allow you to beautifully zone the garden and will not allow the roots of plants to spread too much, interfering with other crops. In the center of such a garden, you can put a large trough or barrel of water for easy watering.
5. Tapestries
From ordinary branches tied with ropes in the form of a wigwam, you will get wonderful trellises for growing climbing plants.
6. A bed of cinder blocks
From unnecessary cinder blocks, you can build an original and practical raised bed.
To do this, you need to outline the shape and size of the future beds and arrange the cinder blocks along the intended perimeter, slightly digging them into the ground. Inside, the bed can be covered with oilcloth or cardboard, cover the bottom with fallen leaves and any organic waste, compost and cover it all with fertile soil. Plants in such a flower bed are not afraid of night frosts and temperature changes that occur in spring.
7. Bright flower beds
Raised flower beds with colorful borders are perfect for growing flowers, herbs and some vegetables. It is much easier to care for such beds than ordinary ones, and they appearance will please the eye and attract the attention of neighbors.
8. Pallet beds
From unnecessary wooden pallets you can build wonderful beds that are ideal for growing greens, herbs and lettuce. Plants in such beds look very neat, and their leaves will not get dirty with earth during the rains.
9. Baskets
To create insulated raised beds, literally any container is suitable. Even banal tomatoes and cabbages will look exquisite in beautiful wicker baskets.
10. Gabion flowerbed
High flowerbeds of gabions will be a real highlight suburban area. Due to their flexibility, gabions can be used to make various original frames and even create real works of art.
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11. Metal bed
Sheets of metal can also be used to create beautiful raised beds. For example, using metal sheets you can create a beautiful multi-level structure for growing flowers and greenery.
12. Lazy garden
Make a box of the desired size from the boards with small bars on the sides. The bars need to be dug into the ground after which, be sure to check the sides of the beds with a level. From the inside, to the wooden sides, you need to attach trimmings of PVC pipes for hoops with mesh or film, cover the bottom of the bed metal mesh and fill with soil. This design can also be equipped automatic system glaze. The harvest on such a bed will be early and rich, and caring for it will not bring much trouble.
It all started with surplus seedlings of zucchini and squash. Where to plant it? Only the borders separating the site from the neighboring ones, cement paths near the foundation of the house and tulip ridges remained free (the stems and leaves of the bulbs have already partially withered). And then my eyes fell on a pile of plastic lattice boxes, measuring 40x30x20 cm, which were stacked on top of each other against the wall of the barn.
I put large “t-shirt” bags into the boxes, making holes in them for drainage from the bottom. excess water and started filling. In addition to the packages, pieces of cardboard were used: they were placed against the walls of the boxes so that the earth could be poured higher. By the way, the cardboard perfectly "held" the ground, it was enough for the whole season.
I put small pebbles on the bottom of the boxes as drainage, broken brick, wood chips. Above - dried weeds from weeded beds. And on them - cubes of sod from the boundary (ground up) and a little earth from the passages cleaned with a shovel near the beds (to fill the gaps between the sods in the boxes). Here's a puff pastry!
Prepared 10 boxes in one day. In each of them, I made a hole in the center, planted one plant from cups in them, watered and mulched the top layer of soil with sawdust mixed with small chips (so that moisture did not evaporate).
In turn, she took the boxes to the garden in a wheelbarrow and placed them in a garden bed with plantings of tulips and daffodils. The distance between them left about 20 cm.
It turned out that it is very convenient to grow plants in such boxes: if any of them suddenly interfered with me, I simply transported it to another place. And for the possibility of such movement, I called this site a “mobile garden”.
I planted seedlings in boxes on June 25-27 and a month later I picked the first fruit. Plants developed normally, no worse than in ordinary beds. I adopted this method. Now I arrange a “mobile garden” every year. I still think to find a convenient place to expand it more: after all, the boxes can be installed not only in the beds, but also in the yard. On unexplored land.
not everyone can arrange a spectacular decorative vegetable garden in the country due to the lack of sufficient space, time, financial capabilities, physical strength. But after all, an ornamental garden can be small, mobile, not requiring high costs if it is made from small portable beds.
To do this, you can use paved and asphalted areas, paths. Then, in the chosen place, install wood flooring on which they spread nonwoven fabric right size, fix it with frames made of thick wooden slats at least 15 cm high or with stones, pour earth and plant plants.
When the need for such a bed disappears, it can easily be turned into a sandbox for children, taken to another place, or simply dismantled.
When selecting an assortment for mobile beds, one should not only be based on nutritional and medicinal needs, but also provide for a possible perspective. decorative placement plants.
On the terrace, in the recreation area, it is good to place containers with fragrant spicy flowers, hang a balcony box with a mixed composition with edible ampelous plants(nasturtium, thyme, boudry, tenacious, physalis, ‘Tumbler’ tomato).
And if you put several containers with cucumbers or fiery red beans, directing their shoots up the stretched twine, you can create a wonderful canopy or edible wall that protects from the summer heat.
It is convenient to decorate small garden beds with mobile beds. patios, as well as recently popular patios (paved areas for relaxation).
An original decoration of such places can be a mobile mini-reservoir, carrying peace of mind and peace. It is arranged in a wooden tub of water and decorated with edible aquatic plants.
AT children's corner you can put pots with racemose tomatoes, which will look not only beautiful, but also very appetizing.
Such a corner can be fenced off with mobile screens, the surface of which can be easily and quickly covered decorative pumpkins. In the summer they will protect it from winds, noise, dust, and in the fall they will turn it into a "fairy tale" with multi-colored "toy" fruits.
Small containers of plants can decorate the entrance to the house and even the front stairs. To do this, it is better to use rosemary or lavender, giving them a rounded shape.
But the most spectacular elements of container gardening will be various variegated forms. edible plants(chard beet, medicinal sage ‘Tricolor’, lemon balm ‘Aurea’, tricolor amaranth ‘Illumination’, creeping tenacity ‘Multicolor’, ‘Variegata’, bought multi-flowered ‘Striatum’, oregano ‘Aureum Crispum’).
Growing cucumbers in garden beds is more laborious process than greenhouse cultivation. However, this method has a whole army of fans. Unlike closed ground, ridges provide gardeners with more wide opportunities, because there are several types of structures for obtaining big harvests and saving space on the site.
- The beds should be located away from flowing reservoirs, streams and irrigation canals.
- The planting site of the crop without protection should be located in a place where drafts do not walk.
- Watering and loosening the soil surface should be carried out constantly to avoid the formation of a hard crust and prevent it from drying out.
- Feeding should be carried out more often than in closed ground.
- When harvesting fruits, you should try not to turn the lashes of the plant over.
- Weeding cucumbers in open ground performed more frequently, however the best way- covering the entire surface of the ridge with a black film.
As you know, cucumbers respond positively to the rich organic composition of the soil under them. That is why any beds for them always contain organic matter: humus or not rotted manure, grass, branches, food waste. These components not only make the bed fertile, but also generate heat during decomposition.
As a rule, for the success of cultivation, it is required to prepare in advance planting material. Experienced gardeners they know that the plant substrate must “ignite” in order to thoroughly warm the soil. So that the roots do not suffer from overheating, it is recommended that after planting them in the beds, water them more abundantly than greenhouse ones.
Interesting fact! With active decomposition of organic matter, the beds can heat up to 80 degrees Celsius! Under such conditions, pathogenic fungi, viruses and many pests hiding in the soil die. Thus, the natural sterilization of the soil is carried out.
How to prepare a warm garden for cucumbers (video)
Types of cucumber beds
There are several classic options ideal for growing cucumbers. Deep and tall, warm and ordinary, they allow you to grow healthy and tasty greens from early spring until the onset of cold weather. The technology of their assembly is different, so it is worth considering in more detail each of these ridges.
warm bed
culture care
In the beds, caring for cucumbers differs little from the operations applied to plants in closed ground and consists of the following:
- regular watering and fertilizing;
- loosening the soil and removing weeds;
- mulching;
- tying to trellises or supports.
The peculiarity of watering cucumbers in the garden is the need for daily abundant moisture recharge, since they are more susceptible to drying out than others. In addition, when the substrate dries up in the lower layers of the ridge, the process of decomposition of organic matter will stop. You can water the classic way from a watering can or hose, or use systems drip irrigation. A prerequisite is to avoid getting drops of water on leaf blades.
Together with watering every 7-12 days, top dressing is carried out organic fertilizers or ash. In warm ridges, there is no need for constant feeding, as they are a fairly nutritious "sandwich", saturated with various trace elements and minerals. In cloudy weather, cucumbers can be fed foliarly by spraying them with a solution of urea. During the season, two such dressings are enough: at the time of formation of 4 and 12 true leaves.
Cucumbers on a vertical bed: harvesting (video)
As the lashes grow, they need to be tied to supports. Long-climbing varieties, as a rule, form tendrils that serve to climb plants up on their own. However, under the load of fruits, they can break off. To prevent this from happening, they are carefully tied to the trellises with soft fabric ribbons or rubber or latex rings.
In general, the construction of beds and those growing on them takes no more time than with greenhouse cultivation of crops. Nevertheless, the yield of such ridges is very high, especially with a competent approach to soil moisture and providing plants with nutrients.
Mobile beds allow to grow big harvest vegetables on a small land plot. A variety of organic waste is used to form warm beds. Such beds do not need digging or other autumn preparation and also does not require the introduction of mineral dressings.
Mobile warm beds are assembled in spring time, and after harvesting they are also easily "disassembled". The organic content of the beds allows the soil to work at full strength and give vegetable plants all the necessary nutrients.
Crops such as cucumbers are very fond of sunlight and heat, so the plot of land should be illuminated maximum amount time. The beds on the site should be arranged so that Sun rays fell on cucumber bushes from the side.
After choosing a place for a mobile bed, you need to take care of the materials that are necessary for the "construction" of the bed:
- Black or transparent polyethylene film.
- thin branches small size remaining after pruning trees and shrubs.
- Any organic waste.
- Garden land and river sand.
- Wood ash.
- Solution with effective microorganisms or humus.
The preparation of the beds should begin at least a month before planting cucumber seedlings. Average width and height warm beds- about 30 centimeters. The length can be any, depending on the area of \u200b\u200bthe site. Small wooden pegs are driven in along the perimeter of the beds and in its corners to determine the boundaries.
Filling a warm bed begins with branches - this will be the first layer. The next will be the mulch layer, which remained on the other beds not rotted. If its quantity is insufficient, then any plant waste can be added (for example, last year's leaves, peelings from vegetables and fruits, and herbaceous plants). by the most top layer, about 3 centimeters thick, there should be earth from the garden or sand.
In order for various microorganisms to actively start their work inside the garden, it is necessary to create greenhouse conditions. To do this, the bed is covered with a prepared film that will retain moisture and heat. Under such conditions, organic waste will begin to actively decompose and create the nutrient medium necessary for the cucumber crop. But before covering, the bed is abundantly watered with infusion of wood ash (10 liters of water - 1 glass of ash), and then also with a solution using EM preparations.
The film should not only cover the entire space of the garden, but also capture a little of the area around it. Such a cover will protect the cucumbers from the invasion of weeds. Thirty days will pass and the bed will be ready for planting seedlings, the film is removed.
A cucumber bed will become almost perfect if metal arcs pass over it, and the entire surface is covered with a special fibrous synthetic material(lutrasilom), which will reliably protect plants from sudden cold snaps. With such a “uniform”, the bed is ready for planting seedlings around mid-May. In the absence of such shelter, it is better to postpone the planting of cucumbers until early June.
Cucumbers on such a bed can be grown seed or seedling way. Seeds a day before planting must be soaked in water or a biostimulator.
You need to start by cutting holes (each 5-6 centimeters long) across the entire surface of the film at a distance of approximately 30 centimeters from each other. Two seedlings or 4-5 seeds are planted in each hole and immediately watered abundantly.
Ideal temperature regime for the growth and development of cucumber bushes - this is 28-30 degrees Celsius. To maintain this temperature at night, in cool or very hot weather beds should be covered. It protects vegetable crops not only from the cold, but also from the rise in temperature.
Protect seedlings from pests and various diseases You can use wood ash. As soon as the second leaflet appears on young plants, ash dusting can be carried out.
A warm bed under the film requires very little moisture, since evaporation almost does not occur. The first thirty days, watering is carried out directly into the cucumber holes, and after a month it is enough to water the garden around the perimeter. This method of watering promotes the development of the root system, as it forces the plants to independently look for a source of moisture. And with well-developed and strong roots, the whole plant develops normally, a large number of ovaries are formed.
Even such a "nutritious" bed requires additional fertilizer. Cucumbers respond well to top dressing. They are brought in by irrigation along the perimeter of the beds approximately 3-4 times a month (in July and August). The best fertilizer there will be a solution of water (10 liters) and compost (5 liters).
Cucumber varieties of early and medium ripening bring the first fruits at the end of June. If the beginning of summer turned out to be cool, then this period will be slightly postponed (to the beginning - mid-July).
An increase in the yield of cucumbers is possible with correct use metal arcs over the beds. These supports help keep most of the cucumber lashes above the surface. Such devices help good penetration air, light and heat to each plant.
Mobile garden after harvest
All the fruits are harvested, the tops are removed from the garden - you can remove the film. Almost everything in the garden can be used for compost or for protection. fruit trees. Branches of trees and shrubs can be burned, and wood ash useful as a feed.
If a cucumber patch did not disappoint you this season, then try to repeat your luck in next year. Only now use another piece of land.
Warm garden for cucumbers (video)