Raised bed - would these boxes work?
Re: Raised bed - would these boxes work?
Another idea is to use concrete gravel boards and cut up corner posts. Dearer as you have to buy them unlike Bloggs the builders bags but better looking and pretty much maintenance free and will last almost forever.
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featherstick
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Re: Raised bed - would these boxes work?
Yep, that's a good idea. A scaffold board or gravel board will give you an extra 5-6 inches of depth. More than adequate. I grow potatoes in 8 inches of chalky silt up here in the North Downs.
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CynicalSurvival
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Re: Raised bed - would these boxes work?
I'd never heard of concrete gravel boards. You are supposed to have those under a wooden fence?
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Re: Raised bed - would these boxes work?
Yes they're the ones and the corner posts , again in concrete , are the ones with slots set into adjoining faces to allow a fence to turn through 90* .