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6 Incredible Benefits of Modular Raised Garden Beds for Backyard Farmers

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6 Incredible Benefits of Modular Raised Garden Beds for Backyard Farmers

Raised garden beds have a lot to offer. They make it simple to care for your plants and give a neat appearance in the garden. If you have a paved backyard or soil that isn't optimal for growing many plants, a raised bed could be your route to growing your food.

By definition, a modular raised garden bed is an enclosed unit that we construct up rather than down. For backyard farmers, raised garden beds solve a variety of problems.


Raised soil beds aren't exactly a novel concept. They have had a devoted fan base since 300 BC amid the human settlers of the Andes mountains. The people there used them to stop soil erosion. For thousands of years, raised garden beds have retained their popularity.


And why would someone not love these garden beds? They make gardening easy, keep most predators away, help retain fertile soil for longer, and provide better water drainage. Here, we have enlisted the top 6 benefits of raised garden beds for your backyard farm.


1. Better Soil Quality


When you plant something in the ground, your crop has to limit itself with the nutrition and condition of the ground soil. The soil may not be apt for growing plants at all. You may improve the soil by adding mulch and compost, but that is a labor-intensive process.


With garden beds, you can apply a top layer of compost, mulches, manures, and other soil conditioners without the need for breaking your back. Managed bed soil will hold this nutritious soil better than the ground. Plus, you can put in the fertile soil in the beds, as we do in flowerpots.


2. No Human Tilling Required


Gardeners frequently till their ground to prepare for growing crops and remove weeds. However, tilling soil with hands depletes its structure.


Earthworms, also known as backyard farmers' best friends, can till the soil considerably more efficiently than humans. Using raised beds, you can let nature work for you.



Because they are above ground, these garden boxes also act as natural barriers for weeds. Gardeners also grow crops at just enough distance from each other to prevent weed growth.


3. Keeps the Critters Away


No backyard farmer will want menacing animals attacking their hard labor. Fencing your garden and using modular garden beds do help to a great extent.


Although many pests, like slugs, can climb. But they are, as the name says, sluggish. Raised garden beds offer you an opportunity to stop them before they reach the plant.


With raised beds, pets are less likely to urinate directly into the vegetables and herbs you're growing. Additionally, you can use a blind inset HDPE food-grade panel to keep the moles, groundhogs, and squirrels at bay from your plants.


4. Reduces Heavy Metal Contamination Effectively


The urban landscape comes with its often unavoidable challenges for backyard farmers. One of them is soil contamination with heavy metals.


Heavy metals such as lead pollute the ground soil. These pollutants come from automobile pollution and other sources. Plants like tomatoes and spinach absorb these heavy metals that pose health risks (like cancer) for the consumer.



Modular raised garden beds offer a unique chance to bring in uncontaminated soil in your garden. Elevated soil above the ground will save it from the heavy metal mixed water rushing from roads during rains. Also, composts added year-on-year reduce contamination by diluting heavy metal levels with time.


5. Offers Better Soil Drainage


A raised garden bed could be the only option to enjoy a complete growth cycle in areas prone to floods or swampy yards. The soil drains better in raised garden beds. Loamy, loose, and granular soil is well-drained.

Likewise, people frequently walk on the ground soil, compressing it and reducing its ability to drain water properly. That's not the problem with raised beds.


6. Movable Gardens


Garden beds provide you the much-needed flexibility if you're a tenant. Sometimes landlords also don't want you to grow anything in their backyard. For such conditions, raised beds gardens are the perfect solution for you.

When the time comes, you can take your garden bed with you on a truck and grow your plants at your new home.


Conclusion


You can create garden beds by simply piling dirt into a mound or enclosing and modular containing soil with boxes. The best part is that they are expendable, and we can stack them up if your plants need deeper roots.

At Roost and Root, you get customizable modular raised garden beds for deep-rooted vegetables. We've made them from cedarwood and 100% USDA-approved toxic-free food contact material. Give us a call at 877-741-2667 and discuss the best size suitable for your needs.


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