Blogs on building raised beds

how i made my vegetable raised beds

to make a raised bed 4m x 1.680 = 6.72 square m you will need the following 3 scaffold boards 3.9m by .200mm or 9 inch ...

New Challenge - Construction of very small garden.

I was asked by the friend of a customer to design and construct a small very low maintenance garden with plenty of colour,...

Raised and not so raised beds

After reading an article on raised beds I decided to build a few myself. The article suggested a raised bed made from untreated...

Novice enquiry again..... :-)

The break in the weather is brilliant hope it holds out for more than a day or 2, as we've made a start in the garden. ...

scaffold boards

hi, i managed to get hold of 50 scaffold boards (free of charge) from a friend of mine,and i have edged my allotment with...

New raised beds and items from a salvage yard.

Well its Feburuary and the ground is all boggy and wet, if its not frozen. So I thought I would use the space behind my shed...

No Dig Raised Beds

I have turned my lottie over completely to raised beds. I also try and grow my veg on a no dig system. The main reasons...

Winter project # errrr was anyone keeping count?

OK Winter project # next. Lol Making raised veggie beds! First you need the essential supplies! Fags ......... Check Coffee...

raised border walls

what should i build with? i was going to go with wood, layered planks with 2x2 stakes in the corners making them about two...

Plants At Altitude

When I first moved here, twenty-five years ago, there was an old shed in this corner of the garden. But I soon realised this...

The Carrot Crunch

This year I decided to start a veg patch and thought the unproductive left hand side of my garden would be perfect. First...

Kitchen garden raised beds project part 3

Another weekend is in sight and word is that it will be dry on Saturday. Hooray!!! Last weekend I removed all the exsisting...

Building My Own "Chocolate Box" Planter (Part 2)

The basic planter now just needed finishing touches. The corners were made neat using angled beading, and the top and bottom...

Building My Own "Chocolate Box" Planter (Part 1)

I woke up this morning feeling creative, and with an idea in my mind. So I set off early, to get what I required to get started. Two...

polytunel part two

doors are now on. then with the help of brother Richard a raised bed was built from blocks. Julian has now moved his...

A good day for sorting out the veg and herb patch

I started by building a frame for my french runner beens I recone it should do the job I then went on to build myself a...

First day this year

My raised beds spent the winter underneath this confusion ,its left like this so that scooby and any of his mates or indeed...

Raised Bed Gardening - I wish!

I have decided that as January is still not quite over, it is not too late to make a few gardening resolutions for this year....

Square Foot gardening methods

I have always liked to garden but since an accident and a diagnosis of OA a few years ago I have not been able to do much...

raised beds

spent all day shoveling topsoil compost and manure into to my new raised beds, I asked a friend to build some beds for me...

Welcome to my veg garden!

Here's my veg garden! We moved in our new house in November last year and my other half (who's a carpenter by trade)...

should we add raised beds to this lawn?

We have been thinking about adding raised beds in this lawn, problem is that the lawn is a funny shape! the edge near...

Square Foot Garden 2008

I cannot believe how quickly the growing seasons change. Last week it snowed (really unusual in Hampshire) and this week...

Nearly there

Well I finally got one part of the plot hammered together and in place, started again on Friday in my new welly boots I...

Looking forward to gardening after a 2yr Hiatus

Dec 7th 2007: -10C and LOTS of snow. We are in a new house with untouched grounds to play with. The snow is currently about...

Raised Veggie Plot continued saga.....

Finally did a bit in the garden this week, hooray. I cleared the rest of the garden cuttings/weeding pile into recycling...

Raised Vegetable Plot

Having been inspired by the on line square foot garden on this site I am trying to do something similiar. So far got the...

COMPOST

As I installed 2x1 metre square raised beds, I of course needed compost. In one I put non-peat compost in the other a peat...