Raised beds.

“Sed semper ubi sububi in caput meum”

It all started on frosty morning. I contacted a local scaffolding firm and obtained a good number of old boards from them. Law now dictates that they can no longer keep them if they are too old but they still do the job on the lottie.

These are the only photos that I have of the beds after construction, so I hope that you can make them out.

Now what size was I going to make them. I only have a small plot and I wanted at least ten beds in total, so that I could grow the veg I wanted and to give them a good crop rotation. 10ft x 4ft I had decided. It meant that I did not have to walk round too much and that I could reach the middle from either side.

Once i had my beds in then i could erect my shed and compost heap. I ended up getting cheap one from argos that was ship lap t & g. Put some old paving slabs down on top of thick black plastic to stop the weeds coming through and leveled it out. The compost heap was made from old pallets, but did the job. The plot was coming on and i couldn’t wait to start harvesting.

The paths were going to be a problem with weeds so i decided to get old of some weed suppressing fabric, which was going cheap at one of the local garden centres. Before putting it down i layered the path with thick cardboard.