Posted on 04/02/2024 11:55:47 AM PDT by orsonwb
Ready to build a Raised Garden Bed? Here is detailed information on the Pros, the Cons, and the Costs of materials you can use such as stone, brick, metal, concrete block, and a variety of types of lumber...WATCH THE VIDEO
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Here’s a link to the current monthly garden bread for anyone interested. Lots of tips there. Diana in Wisconsin just started this new thread yesterday.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4228224/posts
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Mr. GG2 just screws together 2 4x8 beds for me about every 5 years out of the cheapest 2x10 lumber from Lowes. I fill them up with bags of cheap potting soil and 1 bag of black cow turned into each bed and I’m in business. I grow an enormous amount of veggies in those two beds and a few containers with tomatoes, Japanese egg plant, cucumber and that expensive flat leaf kale that you have to pay a fortune for at Sprouts.
Another option is galvanized steel beds, available in many length / width combos. I bought two from Amazon many moons ago and they still look as good as new. If I remember correctly, they were about $50 apiece. No doubt they’re much more expensive now, but they’re still less expensive than buying fresh lumber. And if $$$ is no object, there are those pricey Birdie’s raised beds featured on many popular Youtube channels.
Concrete Blocks. Two high with a cap block. Cattle panel frames welded into 8” high 4x8 foot sections with chicken wire on them as cat excluder devices. Triangular tomato and pepper cages made from cattle panels that can fold around the plants. Discarded 3 gallon shrub pots for early time wind protection. Etc.
These seem a good option and can be made into many shapes. I have 6 4x16 foot beds and that seems ample.
I’m in the process of putting stepping stones 6 inches deep. Gophers eat the roots.
I’ll put some vertical stones at the perimeter.
I’ll put a ground level walkway of stepping stones.
Then I’ll put chicken wire gates to keep the rabbits out.
My old cat made this unnecessary.
Not to digress, but heard yesterday that bananas used to have seeds. Haven’t bothered to confirm.
Later
No milorganite, please.
Think it through, it’s chock full of all kinds of heavy metals and uh, “stuff” that finds it’s way into the sewer but does not compost out no matter how much it’s composted.
Use it on your ornamentals but don’t eat it.
Later
Btt
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Saw a video of a guy who experimented with foam added to concrete and using a mold to make thin, interlocking panels that you could lift/carry.
I had a neighbor gift me some old rough sawn oak that’s not nice enough to build anything but raised beds with. In a few years when they rot, I’ll find something else.
Sawmills sell the edge trimmings by the bundle that are bark on one side but are still board like.
I’ve used blocks and rocks but the added 8 inches takes up space and subtract from your reach.
I saw somewhere that Milorganite is actually manufactured by “The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.” Guess that tells us something.
Cool idea. Puts the bed up higher for comfort without having to use a ton of soil to fill a big old tall raised bed.
Yes, that is true.
I try to tell everyone, don’t use it for anything you plan to eat.
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