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*curlydoglover* or others w/raised beds
in Green Living
Can I see your garden blog please? I can't find you w/searches and I thought I had it saved...we will be making our raised beds soon and I wanted to send yours to DH for reference! TIA-
Re: *curlydoglover* or others w/raised beds
I should really take some pictures and blog about mine, but I didn't.
We made ours out of composite fascia (sp?) board - it's 12 inches tall by 2 in wide by 2 in thick. It might be 12 X 1 X1, but I think it's 2 inches...
Each bed is 4 ft. X 8 ft. and we put balasts (sp?) in the corners which are 2 in X 2 inches and we used the composite deck screws to screw them together so they wouldn't rust.
I put two layers of the landscape fabric under neath. Filled with ~ 8 inches of soil. Let it settle, and then added another couple inches.
Good luck!
http://wholeyard.blogspot.com/
The beds are 25' long by 6' wide (5' wide growing space) and at least a foot deep with about 12" between each. Between the 3 of them, that gives us nearly 400 square feet of growing space. Hence the reason we don't do SFG.
In general I like them. Some days I find them particularly long to walk along and harvest. And 12" isn't enough between the bed to kneel down, but I'm not much of a kneeling gardener - I tend to sit on the edge of the bed behind me.
food blog | garden blog | curly dogs blog
Thanks all!
Ours will be big too...we are planning a 10' x 30' bed...that fits best in the yard w/optimal sun, being along one fenceline. So sounds like we should plan for 1.5-2' spacing where we will need to get in between there.
Getting excited! We are going on vaca this week but will be breaking ground the following
http://littleapartmentinthesuburbs.blogspot.com/2009/04/little-garden-in-backyard-part-1-bed.html
This was last year, so far this year we've added two more boxes, and the only change we made was we used deck screws that match the wood better and are not as easy to strip.
We also put in the PVC tubes for row covers, since we've made the big jump to 6 4'x8' boxes and we didn't renew our CSA - hopefully we can extend the season some.
Wow, curly, I though I was going to have a lot of space, you have a farm!
We're building ours this weekend (we still had nighttime freezing last week, so we're ok) and two resources we used for planning are:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/gardening/4308264.html
http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/2009/02/build-your-own-raised-flowervegetable-bed/
because they have clear instructions and supplementing photographs.
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