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Would you treat this as a raised bed?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I think it's kind of terracing on a slope.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    edited September 2021
    NewBoy2 said:
    In relation to growing veg a raised bed is when the level of the soil is at least 2 foot above the area outside the enclosed area.

    His is done to make it easier to tend the plants and protect the plants from some insects.

    As this looks like an " enclosed area " I cant see what purpose the brick walls have.

    Good luck with deciding what your aims are and then moving them forward.

    The walls are there to stop the public coming onto my property and to distinguish between my garden and next door's!

    My aims are to carry on with making the garden look nice.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ... and also terracing?
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    How would it work with no walls?  Or do you mean the wall holding the "slope" from tumbling down onto the flat bit?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ...yes, holding up the slope...
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I may have had too much coffee.  I'm not sure what the question is now.  :smiley:
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "I cant see what purpose the brick walls have."

    Partly, to create a level bed on sloping ground.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I don't know how the garden would look with no "terrace".  There would be a brick wall and then whatever is under the pavement (I'm guessing water pipes and god only knows what else) on show.  It would look odd all on one level no?



    This is how low we are from the pavement top.....





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's quite a drop. Do your neighbours have sloping beds instead?


  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    It is a sloping bed but the gradient is quite gentle. Next door’s follows the same gradient. 

    Next door the other side isn’t as low down from the pavement so they have a lawn and then a slightly higher lawn but only about a foot above the ground level. 
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