Bedding (horticulture)

A bed is a partitioned and agriculturally or horticulturally treated area for growing vegetables, ornamentals or nursery crops. The system of beds is therefore particularly common in nurseries and home and garden plots. On the beds to be grown plants are usually sown or planted in rows. As a rule, a bed is a monoculture.

Conditioning and purpose

As long beds rectangular strips are separated from the to be appointed subjected bottom surface which are separated from each other by a year mostly newly created and unpaved, serving as a way of unsolicited face strips, paths. The freely held between the beds rooms serve as means of manual cultivation of crops as possible without entering the Beetflächen yourself or as tramlines for machinery such as tractors. If the care of the beds by machine, the Beetbreiten be adapted to the width of the tractor track in the rule that this can drive on the roads of the culture away with the wheels.

For purposes of a predominantly by hand tended plants growing in a vegetable garden, for example, a bed width between 1.1 and 1.2 meters in width shall interspersed with approximately 30 cm wide running paths as appropriate. For design reasons beds are but partial and continuous action and thereby with mounts, for example, small hedges of boxwood surrounded.

In agriculture it is called the prepared seedbed for sowing arable regionally, but is properly the name seedbed.