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Landscaping often involves planting a garden or reevaluating the exterior appearance of your home. However, using raised garden beds gives you more control over the design and allows you to add flowers or vegetables anywhere on your property. If you are thinking about incorporating a garden into your outdoor design, here are some of the additional benefits you can expect by going with a raised bed as opposed to a traditional one.

Why Add Raised Gardens to Your Landscaping?

1. Easier to Maintain

In a traditional garden, tilling is required at least once a year to break up compacted soil, and fertilizer and other necessary nutrients need to be added to ensure that the pH is balanced correctly. In a raised garden, there’s no need for this backbreaking work. After laying the soil and planting your vegetables, you can disperse the required organic materials and other nutrients directly on top. They will naturally be worked into the earth by the growing roots, insects, and microorganisms living in the garden.

2. Harder Access for Critters

landscaping Ballwin, MOA vegetable garden is bound to attract a few hungry insects and animals. Growing your plants inside a raised box makes it more difficult for ground threats, like slugs, to reach them. Special cloths can also be added to the bottom of the bed to keep out rodents that like to crawl through the soil. It’s also much easier to add special attachments—like hoops and fencing—to a raised garden to keep out birds, deer, and raccoons or to prevent your pets from wandering into the area to urinate or dig.

3. Less Weed Competition

Deweeding is a natural part of landscaping. There’s no escaping the process in a traditional garden. In a raised one, however, you have more control over what gets to grow. Adding carefully prepared soil, seed, and mulch products to the inside of a box will minimize the chance of weeds taking over your garden bed. This means less time spent pulling up the invading species, so they can’t deprive your growing vegetables of nutrients. 


Make gardening more accessible and more attractive by having the professional landscape contractors at A Kick in the Grass Lawn Service L.L.C. build a raised vegetable garden. For 15 years, they have provided landscaping and lawn maintenance services to Ballwin, MO, and St. Louis County. Their experienced team is licensed, insured, and bonded, and they can provide affordable residential and commercial lawn care year-round. Call them today at (314) 471-6186 to discuss a maintenance plan or customized design for your lawn, and visit their website to learn more about their wide variety of services. 

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