Why use Box Bed Builder?
If you're after a quality product that will last, don't fancy spending hours building it and aren't very proficient in DIY (maybe you don't have a lot of tools) then Box Bed Builder is for you.
We deliver everything you need to assemble the beds. You will need a screwdriver, a shifting spanner, a hammer and ideally someone to help you - that's it.
Our specially designed and precision-manufactured brackets are made of steel, treated for the elements. The wood is treated too and is pre-drilled for assembly. All fixings are included, as are instructions for putting it together, which should take less than an hour.
Our box beds ship with integrated trellis wood and brackets - which is vital for training your climbers up for vertical climbing. This is how we get you growing tons of vegetables on a relatively small footprint.
Why a raised box bed
Increasingly people are looking to create more self reliance in their world - a good place to start is to grow your own food.
you can control what you grow (GMO or not). You can control how it is grown (without industrial fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides). And you can control the nutrient density of your food.
This isn't always viable using traditional methods in the ground: our gardens are sometimes too small, we have flower beds we would like to keep, and things can get a bit messy if the plants trail and creep all over the garden. Our soil can also sometimes be patchy. The answer is a raised box bed. This means we can focus our energies on a relatively small footprint of the garden, we can generate a lot of produce from intensive planting, we have less watering and weeding to do, we can begin to grow some of our food vertically rather than creeping on the ground (with less bugs and rot) and we have to spend less time bending down to the ground.
Why mulch
Mulch is a vital part of any vegetable gardening exercise:
1. it keep moisture in (meaning you have to water less often)
2. it keeps the temperature down in extreme heat and up when you get a snap cold spell
3. it helps our friends the earthworms to keep working away to make our soil the best it can be.
4. it helps the bacteria and fungi necessary for soil health
Mulch can be any organic (our preference) or inorganic medium. inorganic mulch obviously doesn't breakdown over time to enrich the soil beneath it. Organic mulch (like straw, hay, leaves, lawn clippings, wood chips or compost) do breakdown over time and contribute to the soil's health.
Most mulch is accessible and inexpensive (you probably have quite a bit of it lying around in your garden).
We use straw as it has minimal seeds in it but any number of organic mulches work. Just remember to give seeds or seedlings a bit of space in the mulch to germinate and grow those first critical bits.