The Raised-Bed Gardening (Siembra Organica)

What is Raised-Bed Gardening?

The raised-bed gardening or ecological agriculture is the natural gardening of plants in a culture without using any type of pesticides or other types of chemical elements, already be fruits, vegetables, vegetables, leguminous, cereals, etc. This type of cultures helps to the environment since he respects the land and the plants. A very common method of culture is named bench-covers (bancales) established by Rudolf Steiner in 1924. This method consists in that to there be done divisions of the area of 1m. Of width and of any length. This way the land is not trodden, and does not get damaged.

Care of the Plants

The base of the raised-bed gardening is the correct caring that you have to have with the plants that you cultivate,  most commonly used vegetables, and give to them what they need. Is very important to keep the water and sun level in high quantities, because its necesessary for the plants to have it. The vegetables like lettuce need a lot of nutrients and water to grow correctly, and in the harvest time they will be weak and small.

Because is raised-bed gardening, we don't have to use any type of pesticides or chemical nutrients for growing the plants, and here are some recomendations:

• You don't have to plant only one type of plants, because that is what the insects like, so you have to do what is called plant rotation, that consists in that you have to change the different type of vegetables every time you harvest in a raised-bed, for example: if in a bed you harvest grains, in the next planting you have to put flower-type vegetables.
• You have to put some natural chemicals for using as pesticides, for example the "piretrinas" (name in spanish) that are obtained from the crisantemo flower. This are air bacteries that produce a toxic pesticide.
• The garlic plant is biodegradable, and can be used as a pesticide because the insects hate it's essence.

Plant Fertilization

The fertilization of the plant is one of the most important things while you are cultivating any kind of plants, including the chemical planting. There are principally two ways to fertilize the garden:

• A bunch of rotten plants and animal's excrement mixed in only one compost help the plants to take the nutriets better.
• Planting some other death plants, because when the plants grow, it will be food for it

The Raised-Bed Gardening is very interesting, and I recomend for everybody to practice it.



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