| Raised beds can make a wonderful contribution to | | | | Once again, what makes this seemingly simple |
| any garden. Whether for vegetables or flowers, | | | | product so interesting are the myriad of uses one |
| they help you shape and delineate your garden as | | | | can have for it. Essentially, it is a portable product, |
| well as guard your crops. There are varied | | | | implying it can be broken down and reshaped |
| methods for creating raised beds, but in this | | | | innumerable times until either a garden reaches |
| article, I wish to cover the advantages of a new | | | | the ideal dimensions or until one gets tired of |
| product: the Enviro raised bed - a raised bed on a | | | | changing its shape yearly. It will still be there, |
| roll. | | | | ready to roll out in yet different shaping the next |
| This is a stunningly simple but also very effective | | | | year, then the next, then the next. Uses for such |
| method of making a raised garden bed using | | | | things as lawn edging, temporary bedding for |
| recycled plastic materials. On the face of it, it | | | | parties or shows, weddings and the lot combine |
| does not sound necessarily new and different but | | | | with other uses such as lawn edging or - my |
| a look at the possibilities, including the factors of | | | | particular favorite - stacking. One is not limited to |
| durability and its extremely malleable nature, make | | | | merely one level of bedding with this. When soil is |
| it worth a second and third look. | | | | entered and fills the original bed, there is nothing |
| What this extremely durable, strong material | | | | to keep one from adding another - and even |
| offers is the chance to form the exact shape of | | | | another - level of design for such things as |
| any size and design of garden bed desired. The | | | | cascading fruits and veggies or flowers and vines. |
| durability of this product does not imply it is hard | | | | Its versatility is pretty astounding - almost as |
| to work with, either, and herein lies another of its | | | | much as its ease of installation. |
| secret benefits over time. For purely design | | | | Composed of recycled plastic, the edging product |
| purposes, it provides a versatility which is | | | | also fulfills a remarkable apt and timely |
| impossible to find in any other material. This plastic | | | | environmental demand: as well as it functions, this |
| material can be erected in virtual minutes in the | | | | product recirculates existing raw material, rather |
| confidence that it will support the hydrostatic | | | | than using fresh supplies of oil, wood, steel or |
| (water) pressure and the dirt's and the plant | | | | whatever other composition which would draw |
| root's expansive tendencies inherent in any | | | | from our limited resources. By recycling, I am |
| garden. What it does is stand tall and firm in | | | | sure we all understand the passive nature of |
| whatever shape the owner designs, separating | | | | responsible product use. Noninvasive methods of |
| itself upwards as any raised planter and thus | | | | recycling technology are a splendid way of |
| staying above the weeds, the grasses and even | | | | maximizing our planet's resources. Thus, its "Green |
| the critters who seem to want to use our | | | | Power" attributes make it doubly desirable. |
| gardens as their playgrounds. | | | | |