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What do you use as your elevated beds?
bc of the bad soil we have i will be doing a raised bed for my veggies, what are your beds made out of? anyone want to share pictures of thiers?
Re: What do you use as your elevated beds?
I used untreated pine (or was it fir)? I wanted to go cheap (at least relatively cheap) but I wasn't sure yet that gardening would be a continuing interested & I wasn't sure what configuration I wanted.
I'm glad I went that route. I made some mistakes on my first attempt (beds too wide, I'd like a different layout) and I look forward to the boards rotting out in a few years so I can redo.
When I redo, I'll likely use Trex (or similar).
I have pictures in my blog, link in sig. You can search (on my blog) for the post called Raise the Beds. You can see how it looks & what I did.
I was wondering about that, thanks for clearing that up. All of our beds are flower beds/weeds right now so we're not ingesting anything if the lumber is still giving off some chemicals after all this time.
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
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I got lathes at Home Depot and Lowes (i cleared out both)... just ask someone with a orange apron...although the first person I asked didn't know what a lath was.
Vermiculite I got at Lowes, but again if you can't find it you can use perilite or just make your mixture heavier on the compost (especially since Mel says to add compost when you pull out plants but never says to add more peat moss or vermiculite.
To OP:
Cedar is more expensive, but less likely to rot/ attract termites, etc.
Who knows, they may be totally safe (or made of cedar which is naturally rot-resistant)! I'm kinda paranoid though.
Using them for flowers is a great idea