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A raised bed is the dream of many hobby gardeners. In Sipplingen on Lake Constance, landscape gardener Dieter Maike is building a particularly beautiful example for kitchen herbs using dry stone construction. This is a cultural technique that dates back thousands of years and has been declared an intangible world cultural heritage by the UNESC0 since 2018. Dieter Maike and his colleagues used 7.5 tons of stone and gravel for this gem.
The stone Maike uses for the masonry is a used Rohrschacher sandstone from Switzerland. The gray stone comes from the Lake Constance region and fits perfectly into the landscape. With precision, accuracy and muscle power, each stone is worked with hammer and chisel. The arduous work requires a lot of stamina, because such a stone weighs up to 80 kilos. It takes three days to complete the walls of the bed in this way.
Most kitchen herbs like it dry, so the drainage of the bed is particularly important. Dieter Maike backs the bed from the inside with large quarry stones, the so-called Schroppen, and fills the rest to large parts with gravel. In this way, the water can be drained off well when it rains. The planting layer begins just below the upper edge of the bed. For this purpose, humus-rich soil is added to the gravel. This creates a perfect breeding ground, which is now suitable for planting dryness-loving herbs.
A raised bed made of natural stone has many advantages: It retains heat particularly well, thereby extending the growing season of the plants. It reduces pest infestation and is also easy on the back. In the cracks and joints of the masonry insects, spiders and amphibians find retreats.
This raised bed is almost built to last forever and thus also makes an important contribution to nature conservation.