Most go to the country to combine business with pleasure - leisure and work. At the same time, there is simply not enough time for flower beds, gazebos, garden ponds. Treat yourself and surprise your neighbors! Make a beautiful decoration of the garden with your own hands. This is not difficult. It is worth using several ideas to make ordinary beds with vegetables and berries turn into a spectacular decor of the site. So you can combine the functionality and aesthetics of a summer cottage.
Making garden beds with your own hands: photo
Even a beginner from the most ordinary site can make a real masterpiece. The main thing is to show imagination and combine beauty and functionality. Usually use the following features:
- the formation of ridges of various configurations;
- creation of multi-tiered structures;
- mulching surfaces;
- dressing of sides and paths;
- decoration with herbs or planting vegetables according to a certain pattern;
- installation of decorative objects.
We design custom-made beds
Before you try to realize the unusual and beautiful design of the garden with your own hands, it is worth analyzing the existing site. If vegetables didn’t grow on it, and you are going to work with a flat area, it will be much easier than re-planning the territory and moving existing facilities.
In any case, it’s worth starting with a plan of what you want to see at the end of the work. Take a piece of paper and draw, or even better, draw a top view in real size on the scale, where all the elements will look like geometric shapes.
Usually, ridges are made according to the principle of a regular style, that is , they perform straight paths and elevations of the correct form. The most common option is rectangular ridges, but if you decide to do something unusual, use other schemes.
The layout of the garden can be this: all objects go from the center, including radially diverging paths and beds from one main in the shape of a circle. Another option, a more standard one, is to make the main path parallel to one of the sides of the fence, and to arrange the ridges strictly parallel. The size of the ridges will bring some variety: from large (for example, for potatoes) to small (for spicy herbs).
Many-tier structures and vertical beds look original. They are mainly used for growing strawberries and strawberries. They can be made as containers located on a support or in the form of a vertical pipe with slots for bushes.
As you can see, there are a lot of options for choosing shapes for your beds. For reasons of beauty and functionality. Do not forget that corners of triangular shapes dry quickly. The same applies to tall structures and small containers.
Bed of spicy herbs
You can make a beautiful garden design with your own hands if you plant aromatic greens in combination with vegetables. An interesting option is a separate, including multi-tier, structure. Dill, parsley, celery, marjoram, chard, basil, fennel and other seasonings are not only useful for food, but also create a favorable environment for vegetable crops. In addition, their beautiful and diverse structure and color scheme provide ample opportunities for creativity in the garden.
The same applies, in principle, to all other cultures. Only if you are going to combine two different plants in a limited space, do not forget to find out whether they can be planted nearby.
We decorate borders of beds
You can get a very neat and beautiful design of the garden with your own hands (photo below) by limiting the planting to low fences or constructing wooden boxes without a bottom.
Many gardeners prefer to make ridges in the form of ordinary elevations from the ground, but if you decorate the sides with any material, this will not only decorate the structures, but also will not allow weeds to spread over vertical surfaces.
Usually, the sides are made of boards, but they are also weaved from twigs, and culling of porcelain tiles is set. The chipped edges of the tiles are dug into the ground so that only smooth parts are visible on the surface.
Beautiful design of the garden with your own hands: mulch to the rescue!
In addition to decorating the sides of the beds, special compositions are also used to cover the part where the plants are planted. Mulch refers to both rolled and bulk materials of natural or artificial origin. Work usually takes place in two stages:
- First, a nonwoven material is laid in which cuts or cuts are made in the right places for planting.
- At the second step, the surface is covered with a decorative composition (bark, wood chips, sawdust, gravel, crumbs).
You can do the first step. As a rule, the material mentioned above is usually black. It transmits moisture, but limits the passage of light, therefore, prevents the growth of weeds, although it involves preliminary thorough weeding.
Manufacturers are now offering a huge amount of decorative backfill, including color, from which whole patterns can be laid out between rows. The easiest mulching option is to lay grass with a trimmed trimmer or lawn mower. It is very convenient for ridges with strawberries. Green mass is not only fertilizer, but also, drying out, prevents the berries from touching the ground. They remain clean and do not rot.
Paving paths (decorate between)
If you want to continue the design of the garden at the cottage with your own hands, you can not be limited to only aisles and sides. The well-groomed spaces between the ridges look spectacular. They can be equipped with boards, paving or ceramic tiles (culling or combat), flat stones, saw cuts of trees, gravel or sand, crushed bark, wood chips, sawdust. It is important that the surface is previously well-weighed, tamped, and even better - covered with a special material or cement mortar.
Zoning space
You can make a beautiful garden design with your own hands (photo above) by dividing the territory into separate parts using artificial or hedges. First, they are placed around the perimeter of the fence, planting berry bushes or tall greens, as well as corn or sunflowers. It is good to experiment with trellis or ampelous plants, ornamental or vegetable crops (grapes - edible or decorative). The same thing is done in the garden itself, if you want to separate one zone from another. For example, cucumbers weave well on a vertically mounted trellis, a stretched mesh. Surprise your neighbors - grow a hedge or an arch of cucumbers. Tasty and beautiful.
We decorate the garden with decorative objects
If you want variety in the space between the beds, find a place for various items that can be made from improvised materials. If you have a watering barrel, draw an original pattern, funny emoticons, or some characters on its surface with weather-resistant paints. Many people like to make mushrooms from inverted basins, dressed in hemp. Painting stones in the form of insects, animals and other objects of the animal and plant world is popular.
Many people buy or make sculptures, balls, or decorative containers on their own. There are actually a lot of ideas.
As you have seen, decorating the garden with your own hands is not such a difficult task. It is only necessary to show imagination and take advantage of some tricks and useful recommendations. Then your beds will look no worse than any flower garden.