Raised beds offer a fantastic way to grow flowers and food at home and can be ideal low-maintenance features in any garden. No matter the size or material you choose for the bed, the long-term success of any raised bed will depend on the health of the soil inside. The dream for any is lots of flowers and bumper harvests of delicious homegrown vegetables.
To keep that dream alive, fertilizing the soil annually is a key way to keep plants in any raised bed happy. How often you fertilize a raised bed, and what you feed it with, will vary depending on the plants and the products. However, there are some good rules to follow to keep the soil in any raised beds healthy year after year.
You need to fertilize raised garden beds to manage the soil health as plants will use up the nutrients over time - and that soil will need rejuvenation. I have grown vegetables, flowers, and herbs in raised beds over my years as a professional kitchen gardener and have sought advice from two experts to reveal when you should be feeding beds, along with some pointers on the best fertilizers to use. Raised beds typically benefit from feeding on more than one occasion throughout a growing season.
Whether you are an addition of nutrients over the year helps keep plants healthy and productive. Before commencing any fertilizing each year, it is recommended to do a to see the current nutrient makeup of the soil. An excess of certain nutrients can cause issues while a test will also highlight deficiencies of.
