Bed

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the asteroid of the same name, see (4026) Beet .

Monastery garden in Seligenstadt : artistically designed beds with surrounding planting

A bed is a divided and agriculturally or horticultural area for growing vegetables , ornamental plants or even tree nursery crops . The creation of beds is therefore particularly common in gardening centers as well as house and allotment gardens . Contains build are on beds plants usually sown in rows or planted. As a rule, agricultural beds and horticultural offspring beds are monocultures , but herb and ornamental beds are more of a composition of different species, permaculture beds even on principle .

Plant and purpose

As beds, long rectangular strips are separated from the underlying floor area to be ordered, which are separated from each other by mostly annually newly created and unpaved strips of land that serve as paths. The spaces kept free between the beds serve as paths for the manual cultivation of the crops, if possible without entering the bed areas themselves, or as tramlines for machines such as tractors . If the beds are maintained mechanically, the bed widths are usually adapted to the width of the tractor track so that it can drive over the crop with the wheels on the paths.

For the purpose of a predominantly hand-tended plant cultivation z. B. in a vegetable garden is a bed width between 1.1 and 1.2 meters wide with steps between about 30 cm wide as appropriate. For design reasons, however, flower beds are sometimes also created permanently and surrounded by borders, for example small boxwood hedges.

Large-scale planting of carrots in agriculture

In agriculture, it is called the prepared for sowing arable regional seedbed , but is properly the name seedbed .

See also

• Raised bed
• Hill bed
• Vegetable patch
• seedbed
• Cold frame
• Deep cultivation bed
• Perennial bed
• Carpet bed
• Cottage garden
• Herb spiral
• Potato bin
• Gardener construction

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Ulrich Sachweh (Ed.): The gardener, Volume 3, tree nursery, fruit growing, seed growing, vegetable growing . 2nd edition, Ulmer, Stuttgart 1986/1989, ISBN 3-8001-1148-9 , e.g. BS 97 or 130.
2. ↑ Winfried Titze: Fresh vegetables from the garden . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8001-6293-8 , p. 40.
3. ↑ Ulrich Sachweh (ed.): The gardener, Volume 3, tree nursery, fruit growing, seed growing, vegetable growing . 2nd edition, Ulmer, Stuttgart 1986/1989, ISBN 3-8001-1148-9 , scheme C 9 on p. 198.
4. ↑ Winfried Titze: Fresh vegetables from the garden . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8001-6293-8 , p. 40.