🌱 guard for beds: insights from practitioners of different materials

Are you enthusiastic gardener is easy to determine by looking at the fence for flower beds. The idea of ​​such a design can be very different, as the materials used for these purposes. Even the beds can be quite original. Overview of options and practical recommendations on this topic revision HouseChief prepared for you together with the authors, who are constantly looking for creative ideas.

Why garden beds need fences

Not all beds are used for fencing. If you have a very large garden, and you are growing vegetables for sale, the use for the treatment of a variety of mechanisms. In this case, will have to give up aesthetics in favor of practicality. Such areas are plowed mini tractors need to be mechanized weeding and fertilizing.

But if you have a small garden, which is predominantly used manual labor, the most convenient option would be raised beds. They are easy to handle. This is noted by all who have tried such designs. There is less burden on the back, you do not have to bend down to the ground. The higher such site, the easier it process and weeding manually.

High beds are often used if the area problems with soil fertility. The raised box can be filled introduced by humus ground, add compost or use other popular techniques that increase the productivity of crops.

And finally, enclosed beds just look well groomed, it is a fact. You can give any form of planting, turning your garden into a real park.

Requirements to the fence beds

The main task of the fence in this case - to keep the soil in a given form. Land should not be showered or washed away when watering is important.

Border for it to be stable and reliable, he has no right to be deformed when weeding or subjected to high humidity.

Another significant caveat - the border should be a barrier to insects, not food for them.

Curbs timber: options

The first thing that comes to mind of the options - the fence of wood. It's affordable, and cheapest option, which is used by most gardeners. And there may be several ways:

logs

Logs - is a versatile material for cottage construction. Of them can make garden furniture, tile paths and playgrounds. They will be useful and for the protection of the beds. Put them in two ways: traditional, wooden house, carrying interlocks. In this case, it is advisable not to place the beam just on the ground, and put under him though to a piece of roofing material for waterproofing.

The second option of using a log - to dig segments around the perimeter of the beds in the vertical state. Such a curb will last a very long time, especially if treated wood means against rot and insects.

Log beds organically look natural landscape suburban area. These borders will last at least 10 years.

plank curbs

Second option of using wood for fencing - board. The housing of this stuff is going on metal parts. For the stability of the fence is fixed in the ground hammered stakes of timber.

Fences, boards are often used to create the terraces on the slopes.

To extend the life of these borders are treated with special impregnation and color.

Border from branches

The most budget option fencing made of wood - fence of the garden cut branches. To build such a structure in the ground scoring stakes and branches entwine them as trash. The lack of such protections is that the earth wakes up through it. To prevent this, inside a bed must lay geotextile or other dense material.

Fences from Slate

If you "inherited" was a cement slate - it can also be used as a fence. For this it is necessary to cut the sheet across the Bulgarian wave into segments of approximately two feet in height and half embedded in the ground.

Similarly, the use and edgings of plastic slate or Ondulina. They are less durable, especially plastic. This material is fairly fragile and afraid of ultraviolet radiation.

plastic borders

Plastic fencing options ready for sale a lot. Leading among them are fillets tape.

Fillets ribbons are of different lengths and widths. They differ in density plastic. The most impractical considered soft and low tape. They serve rather to decorative fence flower garden, but for the full beds are not suitable. If your choice has fallen on a curb tape - Pick up the most dense plastic and take the height of 30 cm, as for the stable position is necessary to dig the tape into the ground to a depth of at least 15-20 cm.

On sale you will meet and finished bumpers for flower beds. they look very neat and attractive, but the price is not the best option. Also, when buying such fence, you will be bound by the manufacturer's suggested size.

Finally, borders can be made of polycarbonate. It is very convenient, especially if you have a residue after the construction of the gazebo or greenhouse. Polycarbonate can be attached to metal bars on the corners or from a bar.

Fences made of bricks, blocks or stones

If you are not opposed to capital construction in his vegetable garden, consider using bricks or blocks. Not all are resolved to take this step, because then it will be difficult to alter ready-made beds by size or location. Therefore, before you decide on this option, carefully thought of everything: the location, the size of the beds and their irrigation system.

Build strip foundation for such structures, in principle, not necessarily because they do not carry any load. But there is a danger that even a couple of rows can give a crack at the seasonal shifts of the soil. To avoid this, the clutch should be mounted on a pier foundation of concrete or wooden posts and raft foundation.

The same principle underlies the construction of a border of cinder blocks or blocks of foam.

But remember: foam concrete blocks can accumulate moisture, so it is better to cover them with a layer of waterproofing at least inside the masonry, to the land is not moisturized destroying blocks.

Masonry - is also in the field of capital construction. Stones can be stacked, bonding with cement mortar. Such fences look very massive and will last a very long time.

Important!any kinds capital masonry retain moisture in the beds. To ensure that your landing is not dead, need to think through the drainage system. To do this, place a flower bed on the deepening of 15-20 cm and a set of sand-gravel cushion. And to the soil does not spill out through it, the pillow is covered a layer of geotextile.

metal curbs

Fences, metallic, probably not the best option. First of all, it's not cheap. Specifically to purchase a metal for this purpose is not necessary. And yet - the iron in contact with the ground very quickly rusts and loses its appeal and finally, integrity. In addition, it can not be called warm. Sense to use these borders is only in the case if you still have pieces of metal sheets after the construction of the fence or the roof. Metal profiles covered with a special polymer composition remains vulnerable and only the cut, you can defend the paint or varnish.

Available materials for fences

You can use for the manufacture of fences and materials at hand, which are at your disposal.

Plastic and glass containers

Plastic bottles - it's rubbish, that constantly accumulates in any home. They can be reused as a material for numerous artefacts. There is a version of their application for the construction of a border. For this "poltorashki 'necks digged into the ground no less than half. To curb this was strong and did not fly away with the wind first, better bottle filled with sand or even water. And to the fence looked as a whole, it can be painted.

Glass bottles can be left blank, they are already heavy. And they digged in the same neck of the ground.

plastic pipes

It can be used to curb and plastic pipes. They, like the bottle, digged in the earth, and to reinforce the structure, you can fill them with the same soil. Get strong and durable fence.

Car tires

Tires - another popular option fencing flower beds and vegetable beds. They are cut in half and digged in the ground. This fence carries a purely decorative in nature, so is unlikely to be able to hold the soil. But even here you can use geotextile to hold it.

In addition - a small video course on contemporary material for fencing: wood-plastic composites.

And what curbs are on your beds? Maybe you recommend some other materials for their production? Write about it in the comments, this is very interesting!