If you don't have a supply of weed-free soil you can buy large (1m cubed) bags of topsoil. You can have them delivered. Although it won't be cheap, the advantages of weed-free, pest-free and pathogen-free soil are huge. If you start off with good soil you'll reap the benefits of great crops without trouble in your first year. And if you keep the weeds down and practise crop rotation, you'll be able to keep it that way!
My son built me raised beds with reclaimed stone and bricks, they are just over 3ft high, and they are super, no more bending and stooping, I ordered 1 ton of top soil and spent a whole day shifting it by muck-bucket, it was very hard work and I sat down after every 10 buckets, but very satisfying and best of all the plants love it, they can grow lovely deep roots, and I don't need to water so often, also all the flowers are at eye level, which is lovely, last year I grew Cosmos and it reached up to the roof of the conservatory, and they were full of lovely Bees, I have never regretted having raised beds,
i need to build a raised bed about knee height for my husband who is disabled but loves to garden. using the method shown in your video, what would you estimate the cost would be.
I've just built low raised beds using wooden pallets . I sawed them along the line of the outer blanks so i ended up with four sides to the bed and then nailed them together to form the bed about a metre square. I also used two on top of each other raises the bed to about two feet. It was very easy, quick and only cost the me for the nails. These are low raised beds for more delicate crops and a bit of relief in my vegetable garden.
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Hello raised bed makers,
If you don't have a supply of weed-free soil you can buy large (1m cubed) bags of topsoil. You can have them delivered. Although it won't be cheap, the advantages of weed-free, pest-free and pathogen-free soil are huge. If you start off with good soil you'll reap the benefits of great crops without trouble in your first year. And if you keep the weeds down and practise crop rotation, you'll be able to keep it that way!
Emma
gardenersworld.com team
My son built me raised beds with reclaimed stone and bricks, they are just over 3ft high, and they are super, no more bending and stooping, I ordered 1 ton of top soil and spent a whole day shifting it by muck-bucket, it was very hard work and I sat down after every 10 buckets, but very satisfying and best of all the plants love it, they can grow lovely deep roots, and I don't need to water so often, also all the flowers are at eye level, which is lovely, last year I grew Cosmos and it reached up to the roof of the conservatory, and they were full of lovely Bees, I have never regretted having raised beds,
using the method shown in your video, what would you estimate the cost would be.
Just read Emmas reply! Thanks... Now, where can we order such soil bags? The garden centres near me only have little bags.
To get top soil try your local builder they scrape off all the soil on a new site and just keep a wee bit for the garden.
I've just built low raised beds using wooden pallets . I sawed them along the line of the outer blanks so i ended up with four sides to the bed and then nailed them together to form the bed about a metre square. I also used two on top of each other raises the bed to about two feet. It was very easy, quick and only cost the me for the nails. These are low raised beds for more delicate crops and a bit of relief in my vegetable garden.