built your own?

[lawless23456]

Hi all

Have any of you ever built your own planters for your veg crop? I need to do this because of a LONG waiting list on the allotment side of things and being a rented property cant dig up the garden! how did you build them? out of wood? have you got a picture?

thanks
lawrence

[deezyb]

hi lawless...do you mean raised beds? If so there are a few threads on them on this site, but try this link http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...rds_13693.html to one of the threads about using scaffold boards to build them. There's also the linkabord website, raised beds made out of plastic. I've got two of those and they are fine. Hope this is what you're looking for?!?!

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[ClayGarden]

Dont you just nail 4 bits of wood together and proberly some corner posts too to keep it grounded? I build my compost bin like this actually, and its still standing a year later.

[Novice Gardener]

My neighbour built me some lovely raised beds - I've got a tiny garden and am on the waiting list for a lottie. Our soil is very poor here and I also have trouble bending so he built them at hip height - he bought lenghts of wood to construct the frame, got some ply off freecycle to construct the walls, then lined that with offcuts of UPVC (like you use for fascias and soffits) we got free from our local supplier as they were just in their skip as waste. Alls thats left to do is to buy some nice wood (maybe decking or similar) to clad the outside to make it look pretty. I filled the beds with a mixture of topsoil and manure I got from freecycle. All in all I think for my 4 beds - one's about 3 ft x 15 ft, another 3 ft x 6 ft, another 10 ft x 3 ft & the other 3 ft x 7 ft - I think it cost me less than £30 - but I reckon it'll cost me around £100 to buy the cladding to make it look nice - so that can wait for now!!

[paulab]

We're in rented accommodation too but spoke to nice landlord and have free reign in the garden - do you think yours would play ball if you promised some homegrown veg?