Raised Garden Beds Sunshine Coast
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Elevate your gardening game with raised garden beds that make gardening fun and productive, just planting, watering, pruning and harvesting.
Discover the joy, ease and beauty of gardening with raised garden beds on the Sunshine Coast. It’s the perfect year-round growing strategy suitable for just about any plant, vegetable, herb, bush or tree. No more back-breaking work.
Why Choose a Raised Garden Bed?
Raised garden beds are increasingly popular on the Sunshine Coast these days especially in the kitchen garden style. They work as standalone garden areas with great drainage, well-defined spaces to concentrate your growing in, and they can also serve as a beautiful outdoor entertainment space. Whatever way you use them, they can help you do most of your gardening on your feet, without constantly bending over to weed, plant, harvest or tend to your garden.
Not only that, and especially on the Sunshine Coast, we have the perfect weather to produce vegetables, herbs, fruit and greens, all year-round.
What Purpose Do Raised Beds Serve?
Raised garden beds are a versatile and practical option if you’re looking to maximize your gardening efforts in a small space or if you have challenging soil conditions (eg. Lots of trees, degraded soil or bushland in your backyward).
- Better drainage than traditional in-ground gardens
- Prevent waterlogging and root rot
- Make it easier to control soil quality
- Customize nutrients and pH levels to suit specific plant needs
- Better soil aeration and warmth retention
- Extending the growing season
- Promote healthier root development
- Accessible for planting, weeding, and harvesting
- Reduce strain on your back and knees
- Can use them as retaining walls
How Do You Approach Setting Set Up a Raised Garden Bed?
Of course we want to choose a practical location (eg.near to the kitchen if you’re growing veggies) that receives plenty of sunlight and is easily accessible for watering and maintenance. If you’re growing a vegetable raised garden bed, it can help to see it from your kitchen or lounge areas… sight unseen might mean you forget to give it enough love and attention.
Next, you’ll decide on your materials. Maybe natural materials like timber or colorbond steel.
You’ll want to make decisions about sourcing high-quality organic matter including organic soil mix, compost, and seeds or seedlings.
When constructing the bed, the height will be from at least 40 cms high (near the ground) right up to 60cm (maximum) height if you want to include planting small trees in your raised beds. Whatever you choose must be deep enough to allow for proper root growth and drainage.
Finally, you (or Greener Landscaping!) will plant your chosen plants and support your irrigation strategy to help them establish and thrive.
With a little effort and care upfront, you’ll soon be enjoying an abundant harvest from your Sunshine Coast raised garden bed, with abundant care and attention from Greener Landscaping!
How Your Raised Veggie Patch Can Become a Fabulous Garden Feature
Raised vegetable gardens look abundant (at times!), colourful and vibrant and often are bursting with produce. There’s nothing more wholesome and gratifying than eating fresh produce from your garden… picking what you need and want, when you need and want it.
Whether your raised veggie patch garden beds are on flat or sloping ground, or if they’re standalone features or form retaining walls by sculpting your landscaping and creating more usable, workable space in your garden, they are a fantastic way to enjoy your garden.
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Where Should Your Raised Beds Go?
Where your beds go depends on many factors including sun and shade patterns, what you want to grow and proximity to water and resources/potting sheds.
Unusual or Creative Locations for Raised Garden Beds
Take a look at these raised garden beds. They define this outdoor space beautifully… lining stairs and pathways. With planning, Greener Landscaping can create a purpose-built garden that fulfills your garden growing wishes.
What Can I Grow in a Raised Garden Bed?
What you grow in your Sunshine Coast raised garden bed is only limited by your imagination. From vegetables, to herbs to palms and trees. You choose.
Sustainable and Custom Garden Beds
Maximize your outdoor space while minimizing your environmental impact.
Choosing a sustainably sourced hardwood or locally-crafted zinc metal beds, you will know these options are both chemical-free and built to last with the smallest environmental impact.
You can design them to fit any space… from tiny to large acreage.
You can consider a series of garden beds in a design with pathways between, or even terraced garden beds to manage a sloping garden and create more accessible growing space.
Need Help Deciding What Your Garden Can grow?
Greener Landscaping’s specialty service, My Veggie Patch, focuses on garden design, garden consultations, and full permaculture plans.
If you want to know what you can grow and where, or just have an expert help plan your garden out for you and tell you what you’ll need to make it work, then this could be your perfect opportunity.
Check out the packages on offer over at My Veggie Patch.
https://myveggiepatch.au/products/initial-design-consult
If you’d like help creating full permaculture plan in place, please contact us to get your free quote!
Why Choose a Raised Garden Bed?
Benefits of Growing in a Raised Garden Bed
By elevating your planting area, you can minimize bending and stooping while tending to your plants, making gardening more enjoyable and accessible for everyone. And it's better for the plants too with better pest control, better aeration and improved water drainage.
Improving Soil Quality in Your Raised Garden Bed
Customise the soil amendments you add to your garden beds. Your plants will have improved nutrient uptake and overall soil health will be enhanced.
Keeping Weeds at Bay with a Raised Garden Bed
It's simply easier to control the growth of weeds within the confines of a raised garden bed.
How to Maintain Your Raised Garden Bed Year-Round
It’s all about periodically adding fertilisers, natural pest control, weeding, mulching and topping up with soil. In the well-defined perimeter of a raised garden bed, year-round care is more manageable.
Seasonal Planting in a Raised Garden Bed
Choose your favourite crops and give them a go. There are locations on the Sunshine Coast that are better suited to certain plants. We are a subtropical climate and have a wide and diverse group of plants that thrive in our climate. We’ll be able to advise you as to what grows best, and where.
Ready To Take The First Step Towards Your Dream Outdoor Space?
Contact us today to discuss your project and receive a free quote.
Materials Needed for a Raised Garden Bed
Using Timber for Your Raised Garden Bed is Best
We supply and work with only the highest quality untreated hardwood (cypress pine) which is naturally termite & rot resistant. Wood is a wonderfully attractive and versatile garden bed choice.
Exploring Metal Raised Garden Bed Options
There’s been a recent growing popularity of corrugated iron raised garden beds. We locally source these options in custom sizes & shapes made of zinc oxide with wooden framing with Colorbond colour options so you can choose your style to suit your landscape design.
Raised Garden Bed FAQs
Here are answers to questions we're often asked about raised garden beds on the Sunshine Coast
Still have questions?
There is no one best size for a raised garden bed. However, aim for a box that you can easily reach the back of when standing in front. Or, make sure you can walk around it, or reach in from the sides.
Timber, new or recycled is a wonderful choice. You can choose corrugated iron (with a timber framework. Brick, block, stone and rock are also possible but more work-intensive to create. Have your garden’s look and feel in mind and go from there. Call Greener Landscaping to help with your vision.
What you fill your beds with is determined by how deep they are. If your beds are low to the ground and only 30cm deep, then the entire bed will be filled with top quality growing soil, with a mix of compost. If the beds are 1m high, it’s expensive to fill with soil. While you can do so, you can also employ Hugelkultur principles and place logs in the bottom to provide nutrition to your soil and take up some space.
It’s your choice on how involved you want to be in bringing water to your plants. That participation ranges from hand watering right up to a fully-automated irrigation system purpose built to deliver water when and if it’s needed. Talk to the experts at Greener Landscaping.
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