Yesterday I constructed a new garden bed, tucked in behind the front fence. I’m getting reasonably good at constructing these types of raised beds. Start with some lengths of 50x150mm treated pine. Saw off a few pieces to create the ends of the bed. Drill some holes into some wooden stakes, and hammer them in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden beds’
A new garden bed behind the front fence
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden beds, pyrethrum, winter on August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Three more waiting to go in
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden, garden beds on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having planted one garden bed, there are still three more waiting to go in, tucked away in the back garden. A veritable flotilla of garden beds!
Corrugated garden beds
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged corrugated garden beds, garden, garden beds, raised garden beds on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a great fan of “no dig” gardening, where garden beds are raised and then filled with layers of organic materials and soil. If nothing else, our earth at the front has turned out to be about 30% old building materials (tiles, slate, whole bricks, pipe, old iron). There are many ways of creating a [...]
