Interesting Raised Bed

[Granny Smith]

This would be so easy to build to give your raised bed garden a little height and interest.



Now go to the site and see what they're charging for them.

craftersnook.ecrater.com/p/14056829/raised-35x35x2-tiered-flower-bed

[Valerie]

That kind of looks like how Mel Bartholomew does the square foot potatoes. He just keeps stacking up the wood and filling it up with planting mix as the taters keep growing up. Except his all fit flush so they only add depth, not more planting space.

Nifty idea. That looks like cedar wood. I'll pass on checking the price.

[joanfromzone6]

i guess you could do just about the same thing with different sized barrels and buckets stacked up ? for a lot less money - and, you could paint the barrels any color your heart desires -

[Granny Smith]

I can make these for free. After all I have all the wood from the barn.

[susan]

I'd love to do something like that for strawberries! I just can't get down on the ground to deal with them and I really miss having them. Are the smaller pieces on top bottomless or do they have bottoms and just sit on top of the one below?

Susan

[Granny Smith]

Susan, they're all bottomless, just frames.

[Cyngbaeld]

Someone posted a photo on FB that was really neat.

[Cyngbaeld]

I could make these and wouldn't have to buy anything.

Of course I couldn't make them here without inviting the fireants to move right on in.

[joanfromzone6]

Feb 16, 2013 18:18:20 GMT -5 Cyngbaeld said:

I could make these and wouldn't have to buy anything.

Of course I couldn't make them here without inviting the fireants to move right on in.

neat pics - do you think they wove them from vines or from willow ? lotsa work involved there and you'd need to line the "baskets" with plastic or else you'd have serious daily drought problems - i liked the way they covered their walkways - been doing that here for a few years using scrap carpet cut into strips - usually lasts three years before replacing and scrap can always be found in dumpsters outside of carpet installer shops - they'd probably last more than 3 years if i had the gumption to take them up each winter -

[Granny Smith]

How long do you think those baskets would last before they composted? We get a lot of rain here. I think you'd have to build new ones every year or two.

[Cyngbaeld]

I like the carpet idea too, Joan. Not sure about willow, I'd use china berry whips if I did it here. Insects won't eat them.

Gayle, everything rots fast here. Depends on where you live, I guess. I think I could make these pretty fast though.

[Granny Smith]

Kim, do you remember a woman named Sharon that used to be on HT? She used this same method for making fences. I loved the look of them and have been considering using this technique for making a fence for my chickens (when I get them). I'm hoping the fences will last longer because they won't be full of dirt. I would make the posts out of cedar if I can find enough.

[Cyngbaeld]

That is a very, very old method for fencing. You can weave movable panels and use them for pasturing flocks. The English call them hurdles. You make a square, let the animals graze that area down, then add more panels to make a rectangle and remove the panels between then herd the animals to the new area and close up behind them. Then take down the first section and move it to the front. That way they can't scatter while you move them to a fresh section.

[Granny Smith]

Probably wouldn't work with goats, would it?

[Cyngbaeld]

milkweedandteasel.blogspot.com/2010/08/overcoming-hurdles.html

Goats tend to stand on things so it wouldn't work too well with them.