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Free Instant Raised Beds

Excitable BoyExcitable Boy Posts: 165
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Well, you still have to fill them but I have seen these in a garden on GW and thought someone's stolen my idea! Here are my raised beds:



As you can see I have placed them over existing beds which have seen better days - next job is to remove those and tidy up. (Excuse the wire - we have a cat problem.)

Long story but as a keen recycler I had visited a local company who had offered me pallets intending to make raised beds from them. Then I saw these which are pallet edging and come with the metal hinges already attached. They were actually skipping them! Really useful and easy to paint. I've also used them to make a composting system:



Easily stackable to your desired height. Only come in one size but you could always add them together if needs be.

Hope this helps someone. 

EB
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  • SmudgeriiSmudgerii Posts: 185
    A common sight on many allotments.  Versatile, cheap ( wish I could get them free ), instant raised bed.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Scaffold boards are the usual 'go to' for most folk for a quick, cheap raised bed where it doesn't have to look good, just a basic piece of kit to do a job.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    I've used pallets and scaffold boards in the past, worth popping down to a tool hire company as I found one that was willing to give away older 13 ft scaffold boards. Though eventually went traditional on the French deep bed system and took out all the raised beds (though still make use of some of the scaffold boards to walk on).

    Next year I want to trial no-dig beds without any boards at all. I've become somewhat convinced in the past few years seeing the results, it is the very best solution of all and easier than filling walled raised beds. Just dump the compost on the ground, plant.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "I thought someone's stolen my idea!"

    Not sure there are very many 'new ideas' in gardening.
  • Excitable BoyExcitable Boy Posts: 165
    Fire said:
    Not sure there are very many 'new ideas' in gardening. 
    QED. Always disappointing to find that someone else has got there first. Having seen them on GW I thought it might be useful for people to know what they are.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Excitable Boy said:
    Fire said:
    Not sure there are very many 'new ideas' in gardening. 
    QED. Always disappointing to find that someone else has got there first. Having seen them on GW I thought it might be useful for people to know what they are.
    I probably gardened for 5 years before I realised all my 'ideas' were actually Geoff Hamilton's. Even the arch I built as one of the very first jobs in the garden when I arrived at this house, was a carbon copy of the one he did in one of his books. sowing peas in old guttering today, GH again.  :) Very little is truly new, the current 'no-dig' with no walls can be traced back at least 30 years and there were probably those doing it 60 years ago, just nobody knew what their secret was.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    GemmaJF said:
    Excitable Boy said:
    Fire said:
    Not sure there are very many 'new ideas' in gardening. 
    QED. Always disappointing to find that someone else has got there first. Having seen them on GW I thought it might be useful for people to know what they are.
    I probably gardened for 5 years before I realised all my 'ideas' were actually Geoff Hamilton's. Even the arch I built as one of the very first jobs in the garden when I arrived at this house, was a carbon copy of the one he did in one of his books. sowing peas in old guttering today, GH again.  :) Very little is truly new, the current 'no-dig' with no walls can be traced back at least 30 years and there were probably those doing it 60 years ago, just nobody knew what their secret was.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-dig_gardening

    Devon.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Hostafan1 said:
    GemmaJF said:
    Excitable Boy said:
    Fire said:
    Not sure there are very many 'new ideas' in gardening. 
    QED. Always disappointing to find that someone else has got there first. Having seen them on GW I thought it might be useful for people to know what they are.
    I probably gardened for 5 years before I realised all my 'ideas' were actually Geoff Hamilton's. Even the arch I built as one of the very first jobs in the garden when I arrived at this house, was a carbon copy of the one he did in one of his books. sowing peas in old guttering today, GH again.  :) Very little is truly new, the current 'no-dig' with no walls can be traced back at least 30 years and there were probably those doing it 60 years ago, just nobody knew what their secret was.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-dig_gardening

     :) 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889


    Anyway, you're all wrong! It was MY idea and they're actually compost bins, not raised beds. You're not using them correctly.
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    GemmaJF said:
    I probably gardened for 5 years before I realised all my 'ideas' were actually Geoff Hamilton's.
    ... and GH probably got his ideas off someone else. Nowt is new under the sun.

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