Linkabord raised bed

[Amybee]

I've got my bed sorted with nice soil inside (and lots of worms! ) and netting over the top but I'm wondering what the best way is to split it into squares (as per square foot gardening techniques). I wanted to use garden string but then can't think how to attach it to the Linkabord. Any ideas gratefully received! (PS I am not very good at building things...)

Thanks x

[cotton54321]

Hi
On the top side of your linkaboard are there little holes? I attached my enviromesh over the top of the linkaboard by using fleece pegs pierced through the fleece and into the linkaboard.
Just an idea!
Melanie

[smallblueplanet]

Or tent pegs?

[andrewo]

Is this product any good out of interest?

[poultrychat]

I have 8 link a bord beds here and am a great fan of it, I use fleece pegs to hold string down if that helps at all and I have recently got some 1metre dowels and instead of cutting them down to size I have hammered them in a little to the linkabord and bent them inwards and joined them together in the middle with (I don't know what they call it and am useless at descriptions) dowel of a different diameter that they sell thereby giving me hoops over the beds to put fleece or enviromesh over. As I know I am so bad at describing things let me know if you would like a picture as these 'extra joiners' are not on their web site and I have never seen a picture of them

[Amybee]

Pic would be great poultrychat

Thanls for the tip about fleece pegs, will try those.

[cotton54321]

Hi poultrychat - would be really interested to see a picture - that would be great for me to be able to environmesh where my carrots are in a linkabord bed
andrewo - I have 4 linkabord beds and so far so good but this is the first year so we will see how cropping goes!

[poultrychat]

I'll try and take some tomorrow but I warn you now I'm not very good with the camera

[Mel]

I have one Linkabord bed and one wooden one. It's my first year growing veg so it's too early to say yet but will report back.

[poultrychat]

I forgot to say I'm not sure if you know this but they also do 'stretchers' that attach to the straight links to stop the longer beds from bowing, they are basically 1 metre dowels with a cup hook, drill a hole in the straight link, in the middle near the bottom of the link and hook the cup hook on, they do work.

Pictures have been taken so hopefully will be ready tomorrow.

[poultrychat]

LinkaHoops

Here's the photos of the link a hoops - these are on 1 metre dowels but they do do a 2 metre dowel as well

[cotton54321]

Looks good - maybe I should try. My beds are 3mx2.5m but I'm sur with a bit of adapting ...............

[Amybee]

Great idea poultrychat. You said the middle "joiner" bits are not on their website so how did you get hold of them?

[nick the grief]

Looks good PC. I may be tempted myself. The great thing is you can moke them easily & they don't rot. I do wish they'd do them in a longer length though - a 2m one would be good.

[poultrychat]

Just ask them about them, speak to Pat, she's normally there. I might try 2 metre ones as well as I think they could just be high enough for the brassica bed to keep those bl**dy cabbage whites off! When I was putting in the higher dowels I also found it easy to take out the old ones with a pair of wide nosed pliers so I am thinking of getting the 2 metre ones and moving them each year for the brassica's. The little 'joiners' I think are 35p each.