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How to build your own raised beds

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  • What is the difference between top soil and compost?
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     So a little update. Raised beds working well. one planted out with Salad leaves and the other has Tomatoes, Sweetcorn (mini) Peas, Beans, Aubergine.

    @Alice, not really much differance between Compist and topsoil. I have found that topsoil has a little more things added to it.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    That's pretty impresive Steve



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Thanks Nutcutlet,

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     And my Sweetcorn is bigger than Montys image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    and well caged against marauders



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Yes, but against Foxes!

    My garden is a Fox run to the park behind it. But they love to stop in mine and randomly dig in the raised beds, the little buggers!  So an antifox net has been installed image

  • steve,

    new to all this would you say decking is best thing to use?

    and what did you use to hold decking together?

    sorry if it sounds stupid but im new to all this

  • Earl20Earl20 Posts: 34

    Steve Worthing your raised beds are looking fantastic, the lettuce seems to love them!

     

  • Thanks Earl20, everything is coming along nicely at the moment, had my 1st crop of beans and the peas are flowering, getting a bit sick of salad for dinner every night though image

     

    Hi James,

    The decking has worked out well. All i have done is cut some fence posts and put them in each corner then half way down, fixed the frame with screws, then moved them into place and then secured them with some long nails.

    I used decking as i had to remove it from my house as the previous owner had fixed it above the damp proof course. So didnt really research costs, but i have a feeling that ti would be cheaper than gravel boards or similar.

     

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