Finally after about a year of nagging, we have moved the shed! It has opened up the garden wonderfully and now I need to know if anyone has any wonder tips for making raised beds - what touse, any techniques etc as I say just bash some wood together, but my dh is nervous,being a diy dunce.
Advice appreciated please!
We have also annexed the greenhouse at my mums, so rather than sitting doting on my newborn, he'll be buried up to the neck in compost (probably by his older brother!)
we did it!
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wow! Sounds like progress a-plenty CC.
I used 100mm x 100mm oregon timbers to make my raised (slightly) beds for no other good reason than they were available. I made them the same size as the base of the chook tractor so I could place the tractor over each bed and let the cooks do the work. You can then throw organic stuff in like hay, grass, straw, table scraps and the chooks dig and fertilise for you.
Just a thought
Nev
I used 100mm x 100mm oregon timbers to make my raised (slightly) beds for no other good reason than they were available. I made them the same size as the base of the chook tractor so I could place the tractor over each bed and let the cooks do the work. You can then throw organic stuff in like hay, grass, straw, table scraps and the chooks dig and fertilise for you.
Just a thought
Nev
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I just placed bricks around one. Just lose. They move about a bit when the cats chase each other but it's not a big deal. Depends how high you want the sides. I used some spare t&g for the big ones. I don't know how long it'll last but it was free.
You could try plastic bottles - there's a thread on here somewhere about plastic bottles being used to make a green house but I'm saving mine to make a raised bed.
If you plant the young'un in the greenhouse do you think he'll grow quicker?
Zoe
You could try plastic bottles - there's a thread on here somewhere about plastic bottles being used to make a green house but I'm saving mine to make a raised bed.
If you plant the young'un in the greenhouse do you think he'll grow quicker?
Zoe
They've only been in a year of so Magpie and look OK so far. I do realise that they are bound to rot eventually and I will replace them with something else, but they were free!Magpie wrote:How durable do you think the oregon posts have been, Wombat? My OH has specified them for exterior posts on our shed, but then we read they will rot too quickly. We had previously thought they would be OK, and that they were a hardwood?
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Yes we doooooooooooooo! 
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I'm planning to try making boards out of old tyres (instructions from http://www.noble.org/Ag/Horticulture/raisdbed/rb07.html )
I'm going to need to make them fairly high to help prevent the rabbits getting in... anyone got a rule of thumb on how high beds have to be before the rabbit loses interest? I'm also planning to put chicken wire over hoops over the top again to prevent an invasion (not that I'm paranoid or anything!!
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I was hoping to do the whole straw bale thing too, but given that beds will go in about May, I'd like to get something growing ASAP and try the straw another time.
I'm going to need to make them fairly high to help prevent the rabbits getting in... anyone got a rule of thumb on how high beds have to be before the rabbit loses interest? I'm also planning to put chicken wire over hoops over the top again to prevent an invasion (not that I'm paranoid or anything!!
)I was hoping to do the whole straw bale thing too, but given that beds will go in about May, I'd like to get something growing ASAP and try the straw another time.