A raised bed normally means timber, a base layer and an afternoon with a spade. This one is a round felt bed that is filled where it stands, on paving, gravel or bare soil, and planted the same day. The low wall keeps the growing area shallow enough for salad, herbs and seedlings while still holding a useful volume, and the non-woven felt breathes and drains so compost does not sour in a shallow bed. Black, green and purple are all in production, which helps separate crops or mark out a display.
A raised bed usually means timber, a base layer, and a weekend of work before anything is planted. This one is filled where it stands and planted the same afternoon.
The bed is a low round wall of non-woven felt, deep enough for salad, herbs, seedlings and flowers, and shallow enough to be filled without wheelbarrows of compost. Because the wall is felt rather than timber or plastic, it breathes and drains: air reaches the root zone, surplus water leaves through the side, and compost does not sit sour in a shallow layer. Roots meet air at the face and stop rather than circling round the base of the bed.
There is no digging involved, which is what makes the format useful on paving, gravel and hard standing where a spade is not an option. Nurseries use them the same way for seedling lines and sales displays, and the round shape reads well from every side. Colours run black, green and purple so crops stay separated or a bed can be matched to a scheme. The wall system is shared across the air pruning pot range.
| Use | Vegetables, seedlings and flowers |
| Material | Non-woven felt fabric |
| Form | Round bed |
| Colour | Black, green or purple |
| Profile | Shallow, for beds and salad crops |
| Base | Flat stitched base |
| Storage | Collapses when empty |
| Packing | Bag, pallet or carton |
The bed is opened on the spot, the flat stitched base keeps the floor level so it sits without rocking on paving, and it is filled from the top. Because the wall is felt, an empty bed can be picked up and moved by one person when a crop finishes or a display is rearranged, and it collapses down for storage. Starter trays and smaller pots sit alongside in the seedling and propagation range.
Tell us the diameters, depths and colours your programme works to, since the bed is built to order and colours can be matched to a swatch. Orders ship in bags, on pallets or in cartons, and the flat bed stores in a fraction of the space a stack of rigid planters takes. The wider soft container range sits in the planting bag range. Container and growing media supply is covered at HortiDaily and FreshPlaza.
Do I need to dig a base first?
No. The bed is filled where it stands, on paving, gravel or bare soil, and planted the same day.
Is a shallow bed deep enough to crop in?
It suits seedlings, salad, herbs and flowers. For crops that need real depth the taller felt formats in the range do the job.
How are bulk orders packed?
In bags, on pallets or in cartons, with mixed sizes and colours combined in one load.
Tell us the diameters, colours and volumes your programme needs, and we will come back with the packing plan, sample and lead time.
Mark Wu, Co-founder & Technical Director, Sichuan Zhifang Net Industry. 15 years manufacturing agricultural nettings for growers in 32 countries.
