Massive Beam!

[chris]

Make a good edge to a raised bed. Can you have the old one?

I have those on my plot My FIL stripped a place out and gave my around 60 of them!

[Cranford Steve]

Jammy Sod

[Jardiniere]

My house has massive oak beams holding it up, three on each floor (cellar, main floor, attic) so your picture did not surprise me - not that i know anything about building......beam ends or anything....

[veggiechicken]

I have those on my plot My FIL stripped a place out and gave my around 60 of them!

How high did you make the raised beds? To use that lot i'm guessing about 6' in old money!

[chris]

high or long?

I think they're just over 8' in length, I'd planned on 10' lengths as this worked well in my garden. They're 5' wide - more like sections than beds though. Probably a bit wide for most people, but easily workable for me - the main reason for using them was so that my little one knows where she can and can't go, bar her own little bed

[veggiechicken]

Now concentrate! When I say "High" I mean Height! So 6' high would be about 1 foot taller than I am. I often measure things by standing beside them or, which gave the workmen more of a laugh. by lying down on the ground! So a 10' x 5' bed would be two of me x one of me. I don't do height though when I'm laying down!!
BTW I'm very pleased that your little one has a bed of her own.

[Headfry]

Cranford Steve.....you say 2nd floor in your original post.......
looking like at least 4 floors to me -with beams that large!!!! has he not told you about the flats yet?

[Mikey]

So a 10' x 5' bed would be two of me x one of me.

5' wide veggie, are you a cube, 5' x 5'?

[veggiechicken]

5' wide veggie, are you a cube, 5' x 5'?

5'x5' = a square - and yes I have been called that in the past!

[Cranford Steve]

Cranford Steve.....you say 2nd floor in your original post.......
looking like at least 4 floors to me -with beams that large!!!! has he not told you about the flats yet?

I know its bloody "RIDICULOUS"!

[Florence Fennel]

Couldn't resist, sorry.