Planter and Raised Bed Construction and Help.

[Scarlet]

I was just about to make a point with the walnut tree. Not only do they take up quite some space, the shade it can cast is huge and you'll find that the squirrels will move in and take the lot anyway!
This was taken out last November as it was dying - possibly because we had reduced its crown by a third to control the shade a bit. The trees that grow in the garden from the walnuts that the squirrels plant can grow a couple of feet in the summer.

[Logunner]

List has strawberry and raspberry in greenhouse, not the correct place for these two.

One of your beds is 3 collars high, which imo is not necessary, 2 high is enough for any crop.

Looks good.

[ghexton]

Assembled the planters today only manged to get 5 out 18 decking boards.
opted for 4no 375mm wide x 1.6m and 1no 250mm wide x 1.6m
I will line them and drill more holes in the bottom.

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thanks for all the advice, will look to do strawberry outside. Im guessing they would still grow in a greenhouse though? with regards of the green house i dont know what size to get i was going to go 6x10 and grow as much as possible in that. Or am i best going with smaller green house and have few more beds outside.

[veggiechicken]

What do you intend to grow in your GH? If its tomatoes and peppers, you'll need all the space you can get.

I wouldn't go smaller than 6 x 10. GHs are never big enough, once you start growing in them.

This is my 6 X 10 in January, to give you an idea.



and this is it last July when the toms still had a lot of growing to do.

[ghexton]

@veggiechicken thanks for the images, got me all excited.
I'm going to order 6x10 GH today. Cant wait to get things started.

I'm going to build the green house of the base you can see pictures above. plastic tile with gravel inside.

Little unsure when to lay some more collars inside and fill with soil or just keep the green house for grow bags and potted plants.

Cant wait to pop some seeds now.

[ghexton]

couldnt wait any longer.

Hello All,

Mange to fill some beds ups this weekend.
Majority top soil topped with a little compost?
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Should i top the finished planters with polythene to warm up?

Also couldn't wait any longer and had to fill up the propagator, ha.
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Started was:
Radish cherry belle- x12
Salad Leaves- x12
Tomato-Gardner's Delight- x12
Tomato-Money Maker- x12
Tomato- Tiny Tim- x3
Tomato- black cheey- x3
Strawberry Alexandria -x8
Kale- x6
Chilli big jim- x 2
chilli serrano hildog x2
caufliflower x 12
celeriac monarchx 12

All advice welcome, not sure i should have put all that on propagator but i wanted to fill it up. I sprayed moist at the end and filled the bottom up with water.
GH didn't arrive, due for delivery Wednesday so assembly will be next Sunday now

Thanks
G

[nickdub]

Warming the soil is never a waste of time in this country until we get to July (or a later depending on where you live). As for GH space you never have enough, so concentrate your efforts there on growing the things in it that you really like and that you can't grow successfully outside it. Really speaking plants in GH should be given a sensible amount of space to grow in, but I'm hopeless as I'm always trying to squeeze in too many for the space available.