The landscape design of the summer cottage is considered to be an inadmissible luxury, accessible only to the elite. In fact, no colossal effort or expenditure is required. Ordinary beds are easy to turn into a design composition. All the necessary materials are in any ordinary garden. If you need to buy something, then it will cost quite inexpensively, because the most valuable thing here is the idea. You just have to decide on the idea you like and begin to implement it.
Idea 1. Beds "in the frame"
Framing from ordinary boards will help to make a garden bed neat. You can use a beam, lining or other available wooden material. In order for the bed to serve more than one season, it is important to protect the sides from rotting. You can impregnate wood with a special protective substance or use a more budgetary tool. For example, copper sulfate (aka copper sulfate) will come to the rescue. It is enough to dip each board into the solution, and then paint from the outside. After this treatment, the bed will survive at least five years.
The tree must not be soaked with used engine oil, otherwise toxic substances will penetrate the soil.
Idea 2. Beds with unusual sides
Surrounding the bed with sides, you can raise it above the ground. This simple solution looks very advantageous. For the construction of the sides, any available materials are suitable: bottles of plastic or glass, tiles, pieces of tile - the more unusual, the more interesting. The constituent elements you just need to drive along the contour of the future beds; If the sides are massive, make grooves for them, otherwise the design will turn out unstable.
Carefully review the selected material. Dirty or damaged fragments must be selected in advance, otherwise they will spoil the view.
Idea 3. Moving Up
A modern trend is high beds. The rains do not wash them out, the bright sun does not dry out, and the plantings are easy to care for, since you do not have to bend low. Even plants on such beds are stronger and healthier: the design does not allow weeds and prevents pests.
High beds can be given any shape, and build it from any material. True, in this case, strength comes first. Typically, bricks or concrete blocks are chosen for such a bed. If you prefer wood, use the most reliable decking.
It is most convenient to care for the garden bed, which has a height of 1 m and a width of 90 cm.
Idea 4. Pots instead of flower beds
The plant can be planted in some kind of spacious container. This not only looks stylish, but also allows you to move the flowerbed around the site: put it in the sun or carry it away from the rain. Plastic pots, barrels, old pots and other vessels stored idle are suitable for the role of "pot." Do not forget about the recent fashion for growing in bags.
It is better not to make beds in car tires, as they can poison the soil with chemicals.
Idea 5. Beds from several levels
Multi-tier beds will help save space in a small area. Such designs look very original, but to create them will require a little more effort. Wooden boxes placed on top of each other will become a simple version of a multi-tiered bed. The finished frame can be found in the store.
It is recommended to plant zucchini or root crops on the first level, and climbers, such as cucumbers or peas, on the top. Greens, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables will perfectly fit in the middle tiers. In addition, in such a garden flowers look spectacular.
Idea 6. Uniquely designed beds
The bed will be unique if you use unnecessary things stored in it for you. Look what was lying in the barn. Flowers growing in an old boat look like an exclusive design object. Vegetables can be planted directly on the table, filling the holes in the countertop with soil. Pour the earth into the old bathtub - you get another unique bed.
Unusual geometric shape can have not only a flower bed. The beds with vegetables located in the composition look even more interesting.
Idea 7. Paths between the beds
Convenience and neat appearance to the site will add unusual tracks. The space between the beds can be filled with sawdust, gravel, pebbles and other available materials. Particularly stylish look log cuts. From broken tiles and colored pieces of ceramics you can lay out real mosaics. Someone makes paths from the remains of linoleum or old carpets, it is inexpensive and no less interesting.
Advantages of decorated paths:
- weeds do not grow on them;
- more comfortable moving around the site.
Regular beds will sprawl, so make sides at the edges of the path.
As you can see, vegetable beds can be beautiful and interesting. We described only a few ways, in fact there are many more. As soon as you start designing your site, you will have new ideas waiting to be implemented.
