Benefits of installing Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne

Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne are increasing in popularity every year. From trouble-free, sustainable structures to graceful, elaborate works of garden art, sandstone garden beds run the gamut of sizes, styles, and spending. Garden is a place of peace and happiness. Attractiveness is a major feature which every garden should possess! While the gardeners grew plants in the ground for many years, why is gardening in a sandstone garden bed so appealing?

Following are the reasons and benefits of carrying out gardening in Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne: –

• Superior soil –

Firstly, Sandstone Garden Beds allow you to control the soil. If you battle clay soil or you have experienced a soil-borne disease in the garden, sandstone beds provide you with a perfect soil condition. Within the framework of the garden bed, you control the structure and content of the soil, ensuring a nutrient-rich environment for the plants. It is convenient to test the soil every season, adding the missing nutrients or the essential compost, to keep the soil productive and healthy.

• Healthier harvests –

With several Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, dedicated to your ‘kitchen garden’, you can easily plan & practice ‘crop rotation’. Rotating crops helps to maintain soil health & thwarts pests which overwinter in your soil. As freshly hatched pests emerge in the spring season & find out that their food source has shifted to another bed, they will attempt to relocate themselves to the novel bed. Fortunately, most of the pests die along the way, being victims to birds and other animals.

• Water control –

Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, allow the soil to drain well, keeping away from the waterlogged challenges of in-ground gardens. ‘Irrigation’ is also easier & less wasteful in the restricted space of a sandstone garden bed. ‘Properly installed drip irrigation systems’ target the roots of the plants, ensuring healthy plants. Also, this helps you in saving money on watering bills. After all, just growing the plant is not what one looks for. ‘Smart growing’ (keeping your expenses in check) is what is needed.

• Season extension –

In the spring season, the soil in Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne tends to warm before the ground, permitting you to plant the spring crops sooner. Along with this, with the addition of just a simple support, you can give rise to low tunnels over your garden beds to extend the season into late fall or winter, depending on your ‘hardiness zone’. With the addition of ‘reclaimed windows’, you can even create a ‘cold frame’ for the winter growing, utilizing your raised bed as a foundation or base.

• Pest protection –

Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, can guard the plants and crops against becoming food for the animals or wildlife. By ‘reinforcing’ the base of the garden bed with a barrier, voles & gophers cannot access the tasty root crops, while a ‘row cover’ can keep those cabbage worms at bay. This is an effective method.

• Prolific produce –

By adding vertical supports, you have the liberty to plant intensely and in a widespread manner in Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, thus maximizing the growing space. Peas growing on a trellis can easily be ‘under-planted’ with lettuce while growing a boundary of radishes along with the garden bed’s edge. To maximize the garden output, you can take into consideration ‘Square Foot Gardening’, a concept which makes use of a grid to divide the garden bed into ‘square-foot’ increments.

The concept further shows how many plants can fit in each square: for case in point, a single eggplant per square foot, 16 carrots per square, two cucumbers, and four corns. The grid lays flat atop the Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, taking the speculation out of how many plants you can fit in each bed, aiding in maximizing the planting & harvest in that space without ‘overcrowding’. Overcrowding is a problem everywhere, be it with humans, be it with plants. If the plants are grown is proper symmetrical rows and columns, the outcome is undoubtedly better. The full-grown plants are healthier and have a longer lifespan.

• Last but not the least:

Aesthetic aspirations – Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne, provide an aesthetically pleasing structure to your garden. Many of the homeowners want to grow their produce, but the famous company Domko frowns on untidy gardens. By producing artistically designed raised garden beds, the crops and plants are contained, edible flowers & pollinator plants can add visual interest, and the raised garden bed becomes an eye-catching focal point in your garden. Build several beds, nestle them at equal intervals or in ‘potager-inspired’ designs, add an arbour and stone paths, and suddenly you have a gorgeous edible garden that is worthy of a magazine photo shoot or a book’s photo album.

From saving a bit of back pain to controlling the composition of the soil, Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne provide you with many of the benefits in the garden. Most of the vegetable crops prefer full sunlight, at least ‘6-8 hours’. Some of the crops, such as lettuce & Swiss chard, can tolerate less sunlight, but for good quality production of fruiting crops, sunlight is extremely important.

A nearby water source is significant. Select a site near the rain barrel or garden hose for ease of watering. Take into consideration the proximity of your garden to the kitchen. A garden which is closer to the house adds a whole lot of convenience when cooking meals. In addition to this, a garden near your home often is better tended as compared to the one tucked into the far back corner of your property. It is easier to snip fresh herbs, harvest beans, or pull an errant weed when your garden is close by.

Choose a level site for Sandstone Garden Beds in Melbourne. Trust us! We have built many sandstone garden beds and installed them in sloping gardens. While sloped gardens can still support these beds, it is much more work to construct the bed and prepare the location or site. Domko does all of it for you and even – Limestone Paving in Melbourne!