The latest trends in gardening can be ignored and the old fashioned way to plant endless potato fields, decorate the garden traditionally only with flowers, exhausting your back with hours of sitting at the beds in an uncomfortable position. But a better choice is to follow the new trends in gardening, which can significantly save time, space and help to decorate your garden. Studying many sources, we can highlight the following most popular today in the direction of gardening:
1) Raised (high) beds. Gardeners around the world have long realized that high beds have many advantages over traditional ones. They facilitate soil cultivation, provide faster ripening, are more protected from frost, need only double digging – when planting and harvesting. They allow you to create a garden in places that are generally unsuitable for farming. And these are just some of their advantages. The plot with high beds looks very neat, and you can implement any design ideas.
2) Vertical gardening. Many gardeners cannot boast of large areas and they have to create a garden in a very small space. In this regard, vertical gardening is gaining popularity. It can be beds in the form of a tower, multi level beds, and also vertically located pots. The main task of vertical gardening is to save precious space on the ground.
3) Edible gardening. We are used to decorate the site can only flowers and ornamental plants. And many do not even come to mind that the pots, for example, with strawberries, looks no less beautiful than with flowers. The essence of this trend is that vegetables, fruits and berries are also decoration of the garden. This means that instead of just beautiful plants in pots, you can, for example, grow strawberries, blueberries, spineless raspberries, tomatoes, peppers. This new trend also helps to save space for those who have a very small plot.
4) Vegetable Garden on the balcony/windowsill. Unfortunately, not everyone can boast of having a garden, and grow something you want to many. In this regard, growing berries, vegetables, herbs at home on the balcony/window sill is becoming increasingly popular. And this is a new trend in gardening, as some of these beds are already collecting a considerable harvest. And those who have a garden can grow their favorite crops all year round. The list of plants that can grow on the windowsill is huge: cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, strawberries, ginger, etc.
5) Garden in a container. Growing plants in large containers makes it possible to make the site more mobile, while the beds are not fixed in one place. This allows you to grow in the summer on the beds of heat-loving plants that are not able to winter in the open field. In winter, the container is transferred to a warm room. The list of crops that can be grown in containers is also significant.
6) Drip irrigation. People are thinking more and more about water consumption. And drip irrigation is becoming increasingly popular when a particular plant is supplied with as much water as it needs. All norms of water consumption have long been known. For example, in Israel, which massively supplies vegetables and fruits, this technology is used a long time ago.
7) Mixing of crops. If earlier there was a principle-each vegetable has its own bed, now different cultures are placed together. For example, in a field with potatoes planted peas – it helps to get rid of the Colorado potato beetle. Or around the garden planted marigolds and marigolds, which also help to fight pests. Carrots and onions protect each other from carrot and onion flies. There are many such examples. The most important thing is to know what can and what cannot be planted.
8) Living gardens.Today, fashion magazines on gardening offer actively populate the garden not only fruit and vegetable crops, but also all living creatures-fish in the pond, butterflies, birds. With the help of plants and correctly made flower beds you can easily attract to the garden, butterflies and birds.
9) Garden, pleasing to the eye and hearing. A modern garden should touch all the senses and delight the eye and hearing and be fragrant. Plant beautiful and bright plants in the garden, create a pond with a fountain, plant plants of different texture. There are many techniques by which the garden becomes “alive”.
10) More flowers – less grass. Global trends in gardening still offer to narrow the area occupied by lawns on our sites. Need to plant more drought-resistant flowers-it will help you reduce the time spent on lawn mowing.
In addition to the above trends, there are others that greatly facilitate the hard work of the gardener-gardener. And probably should not take your garden as something static and unchangeable.
And what new trends in gardening can you highlight? Perhaps you have already organized on your site raised beds, planted herbs and vegetables on the balcony or engaged in vertical gardening. Share their experiences.