How A Raised Vegetable Garden Saves 90% Of Your Gardening Time

A raised vegetable garden is not just a pretty ornament to make your garden look nice – they can produce an endless supply of healthy food with very little time. In this article I want to point out just how much time you save with a raised garden as opposed to traditional gardening techniques.

All the time I see gardeners planting long rows with a massive 3 foot gap between each row. However, this approach is much much more time consuming than it need be. Why? The answer is digging and weeding.

It’s not that most people are too lazy to tend to their gardens, but that they have so much going on in their lives already to have the time or energy for growing vegetables. Usually, only when the children have grown up and left for college that the parents can start to consider growing vegetables – which is a shame as there is a great shortcut to all this hard labor….. raised bed gardens.

So why isn’t there a raised vegetable garden in every backyard? Because of tradition. Its just the way it has always been done, and nobody seems to know how much better raised beds are.

Planting in lines has been done for generations and generations, going right back to the agricultural revolution. This layout was first conceived to allow ploughs to be dragged over fields, and a scaled down version was adopted by gardeners. The problem is that for small spaces, this is really not that efficient in terms of both the space usage and the amount of time needed to prepare and maintain the garden.

Digging of the soil is a job that puts millions off growing their own vegetables in their home. If that isn’t bad enough, you’ve also got to weed the soil. But in the case of the raised vegetable garden, these problems are no longer an issue since weeds have no space to grow.

As there are no walk ways put between rows, around four times as much plants can be grown in the same amount of space. This means that either you can grow more vegetables or have more space in your garden for the lawn, shed, patio, etc.

There are other advantages of raised vegetable gardens such as needing 80% less water, and being able to grow on bad soil, or any surface for that matter. Yet, the most important reason for using a raised bed is the astonishing amount of time saved. I am not kidding when I say that you can save 90% your time spent gardening. Instead of an hour or two a day, you only need to dedicate a few minutes.

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