Elevated garden bed offering better drainage, soil aeration and warmer soil than a conventional garden bed.
plant, flower or vegetable beds raised off the ground using wood, brick or stone around the edges. An advantage to raised beds is a quality soil can be added. In the summer small raised beds have a tendency to dry out faster than normal soil.
a mound of prepared soil which has been imported from another area of the yard, or delivered from another site (nurseries, landscaping supply, topsoil companies)
a prepared area with a soil level that is higher than the surrounding soil
A bed that is higher than the surrounding area, often contained within a low retaining wall.
A slightly dome-shaped or flat-topped ridge of soil. Raised beds are generally a series of parallel ridges formed by cultivation with shallow furrows in between. Bed size depends on the crop grown and the number of plant rows per bed but is usually in the range of four- to eight-inches high and two- to four-feet wide, with one to three rows per bed. Advantages of raised beds include improved soil drainage, earlier soil warming, and easier picking of some crops. But beds also dry out more quickly and make irrigation a more critical requirement for many crops.
a gardening area where the soil has been elevated above ground level. This gardening technique is especially used where soil drainage is poor. Beds can be raised in a structure of wood, brick, cement blocks, etc.
A raised bed is a planting bed used in gardening that is above the existing soil. Raised beds produce a variety of benefits: they extend the planting season; they reduce the need to use poor native soil; and they can reduce weeds if designed properly.
