Excellent work, as a Building Contractor I'm always looking for ideas and designs .I must admit the space between does look a bit tight but as you say you can manage ,and it gives you maximum growing area.Your videos are excellent .
Thank you sharing your knowledge. We’re in the midst of building our garden this summer and putting in the bones such as a shed, grape arbor, greenhouse as cold frames ,half way there.We’re going to build raised beds as that’s what I’ve used in the past as well. This garden being so much bigger it would be cost prohibitive to build with the cedar timbers as we did. I know the galvanized tin with tea wash and trellis on some/all will look good. I’m looking forward to filling up the beds in preparation for next season. Enjoying your videos.
I totally agree with the path size, maximize the growing space, I did our raised garden beds with just enough space between for a small wheelbarrow to fit through. With plenty of space in our in ground garden we do wide paths between rows (usually 100 foot long rows). We grow as much of our own food as we can. (Cold storage, canned and dehydrated.) Love your videos!
I was researching about raised bed, and how to make them without breaking the bank. I finally settled on making them with concrete . I would love to hear your opinion on this or anyone else who has experience with this . Thank you
I find the beds last longer if the wood posts are placed on the outside of the box formed by the metal sheeting, so that all of the soil is encased in the metal and the wood is not in contact with the soil.
I use a child size wagon to carry our the garden trash/harvest, and tools.etc. I advise a wider space between beds. Once they are installed it’s permanent.
Charles Dowding thinks they do, but Ive used raised beds for over 30 years and I disagree. If you do get a slug or snail problem have a look at my video ’50 years of Slugs and Snails My Experiences'.
Hi, many thanks for your comment. No metal that we use is not the heavy metal type, it is just mild steel. Heavy metal examples are mercury, cadmium and such like.
Did you say you use pressure treated lumber on the inside of your corrugated raised beds??? Hopefully you only grow ornamentals in those and not food. Unless, of course, pressure treated in England is entirely different then that in the US.
So jarring to hear you cite dimensions in the ludicrous, inhuman metric system. Units of measurement in the hundreds are foreign to the human body and things at hand. Fine for centipedes and millipedes though. All this talk of millimeters in the garden sounds like an infestation.
