How A Raised Vegetable Garden Saves 90% Of Your Gardening Time

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A raised vegetable garden is not just a pretty ornament to make your garden look nice – they can produce an endless supply of healthy food with very little time. In this article I want to point out just how much time you save with a raised garden as opposed to traditional gardening techniques.
It is very common to see gardeners planting their veggies in long lines about 3 feet apart. However, this method requires far, far more time than necessary. Why? The answer is digging and weeding.
It’s not that most people are too lazy to tend to their gardens, but that they have so much going on in their lives already to have the time or energy for growing vegetables. Many times it’s only when the kids have left home that parents have the chance to grow vegetables – which is too bad as I know a secret shortcut….. raised bed gardens.
So why isn’t there a raised vegetable garden in every backyard? Because of tradition. Its just the way it has always been done, and nobody seems to know how much better raised beds are.
Planting in lines has been done for generations and generations, going right back to the agricultural revolution. This layout was first conceived to allow ploughs to be dragged over fields, and a scaled down version was adopted by gardeners. The problem is that for small spaces, this is really not that efficient in terms of both the space usage and the amount of time needed to prepare and maintain the garden.
Digging the ground is something that put off the majority of people who would love to grow vegetables at home. If that isn’t bad enough, you’ve also got to weed the soil. But with a raised vegetable garden, you can avoid these problems completely because the plants are so tightly packed that the weeds are shaded out.
As there are no walk ways put between rows, around four times as much plants can be grown in the same amount of space. This means that you can grow more veggies, or that you can reclaim your garden and build that shed that you previously had no space for.
There are other advantages of raised vegetable gardens such as needing 80% less water, and being able to grow on bad soil, or any surface for that matter. However, the biggest reason for building a raised bed is the huge amount of time saved. It’s no joke that as much as 90% of time spent gardening can be saved. Instead of an hour or two a day, you only need to dedicate a few minutes.
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