Making raised beds I can raise up (by stacking) whilst growing potatoes? An idea.

[Samuel1988]

Afternoon all,

I am going to grow some potatoes in my raised beds and I had a thought.

Basically, when I made them I knocked them up by simply nailing together the wood pieces and the sizes are all the same so I can simply stack on onto the other.

I was thinking of planting my potatoes and to earth them up I could simply stack another raised bed on the original one and use the earth from when I dig the plots drainage ditches. I can then simply bash in some poles to keep the raised beds more secure.

Any thoughts on this?

I need to make some more raised beds any way due to the usual winter flooding on my plot.

Many thanks,

Samuel

[Bill HH]

I already do this, I have made my beds a standard size and can easily increase the height for say carrots or parsnpis, I would think potatoes would also benefit. It would invlove a fair bit of soil moving however so I use 45 ltr buckets for spuds.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Bob Flowerdew used to do that exact thing with old car tyres.

Potty