Focus on… Raised beds

IMPROVED soil drainage, increased soil warmth, reduced back pain – there are numerous reasons why installing raised beds is tempting for fruit and vegetable gardeners. You can build them using brickwork, paving slabs or rendered breeze blocks, but the most common and versatile construction material is timber.

Raising your expectations

All fruit, vegetables and herbs will happily grow in raised beds. Due to their larger soil volume, they dry out far less than containers so watering is simpler, and you can still pander to the needs of fussy crops such as blueberries that require specialist ericaceous compost.

“Enrich pockets of soil so root health is boosted”

The fact that you can enrich the pocket of soil with any form of compost, specialist or otherwise, means that your crop’s root health is boosted. Quite simply, it’s a win-win situation!

Building them is straightforward;