Please can I have advice/pointers on my plan

[CADS]

Bigmallly - Can you have a word with my hubby!! I bought a circular saw a few months ago when trying to make some beds in the garden but 'he who thinks he knows all' insisted that we didn't need it and would never use it so made me return it. In the end, broke his jigsaw trying to cut down decking boards!!

[Alison]

Nico - all beds will be on cardboard as the plot is covered in crouch grass and bindweed and bramble roots.

My plot was covered in couch grass, bindweed etc etc and although card can help and I have used it in some places I've also double dug most of my beds now. The idea being that I can clear a decent percentage of the weeds, make a massive improvement to drainage and generally improve the soil which has made my life easier. I'd recommend that you do this with at least some of your beds or are you planning on importing a lot of soil to put on top of your card to get a decent soil depth?

[zazen999]

Cads: what I would recommend is to actually work the beds for one season before you actually decide on the actual bed sizes. Sketching is all very well but if I'd made the beds up to the widths of my first design i'd be amending them all now.

And I also use a circular saw for cutting decking boards; it eats through them [but not when they are wet!].

[snakeshack]

apart from a 60 cm path up the centre of my plot I have kept all th others to 40-50 cm but do use a couple of boards across the top of the beds resting on the sides to kneel on rather like a moveable bridge.

[Bigmallly]

Bigmallly - Can you have a word with my hubby!! I bought a circular saw a few months ago when trying to make some beds in the garden but 'he who thinks he knows all' insisted that we didn't need it and would never use it so made me return it. In the end, broke his jigsaw trying to cut down decking boards!!

Oh No!.....Us blokes always think we know whats best when it comes to tools but it is very rarely the case.........

[chriscross1966]

Did you get a receipt for your husband?... I'd take him back as not fift for purpose .... jigsaws and circulars are for utterly different jobs and chewing up straight lines in bulk timber is a job for a circular......

chrisc

[OllieMartin]

Bigmallly - Can you have a word with my hubby!! I bought a circular saw a few months ago when trying to make some beds in the garden but 'he who thinks he knows all' insisted that we didn't need it and would never use it so made me return it. In the end, broke his jigsaw trying to cut down decking boards!!

Slightly off topic: My step-brother, an odd-job man/aspiring carpenter, was recently put in touch with someone trying to get rid of a large free-standing circular saw; free to anyone who could take it away. He offered to take it off their hands and turned up at their place with a trailer.
He was amazed at the size of the thing and duly loaded it onto his van. After he got it back he looked up the price of a brand new one on the internet:


£9,000!!

He's a pretty happy guy at the moment! It's so big that it has a remote control to start the saw as you'll probably be too far away from it when pushing boards in!