If money was almost no object how would you make reasonable high raised beds?
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Originally posted by alldigging View PostWould 3 high be a nice height? Am trying to visualise but failing miserably so will have to find a tapemeasure I think
I'm 5'2" and I wouldn't want anything too high. My tables are about 2'6", or half my height, and seems more than high enough.
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There's these but they don't have a huge growing space but have a clearance of 700mm under the bed bit...
Three sleeper high isn't that high 125mm x 3 is only 37.5cm high off the ground
(Unless you could stack them so they were 250mm high so it'd be 75cm off the ground)
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actually, would a raised bed that rose towards the middle be better? Like a sloping sided raised bed but 3ft high rising to 4 or five foot? It's be easier to reach higher than bend over lower in the middle.
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Originally posted by taff View Postactually, would a raised bed that rose towards the middle be better?All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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Its not just building the beds its filling them as well. Approx 30" deep is going to take a lot of filling and to work the bed properly before planting next year will be a major exercise.
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Originally posted by Two_Sheds View PostWouldn't it really dry out in the middle, at its highest? I have in the past planted into the middle of a compost heap (after taking the dalek up and off) ~ it's been impossible to keep it adequately watered
If you mulch it, or pack a lot of plants in so there's little surface to evaporate water from, it should work.
If something is moist to start with, and you prevent it from losing moisture, keeping it that way shouldn't be a trial well, hopefully...I'm planting a squash on the hugel bed as well to test it out. I'll report back on water holding abilities. It's not as tall, but it's easily twice the height of the other raised bed I've got for the roots that does dry out really badly.
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