Topic: Please help raised flower beds

[caseylee]

Hello there
My allotment has beautiful soil, but I would like some raised beds  cause they make it look better and easier to maintain.  I would love some ideas on how I can accomplish this on a very tight budget. Any ideas appriciated.
Thank you
Linda

[saddad]

Cheapest wood is broken up pallets but that can be a work of art... keep your eye out for people skipping likely timber... how high do you want the beds raising? and what would be a lot of money? Old Factory floor boards from recycling firms can be good...

These are my DIY frames but when the lights are broken they will probably be filled as raised beds...
 ;D

[caseylee]

My friend made me some from old shelves I had in my shed but i had only enough to do my greenhouse, I never though of using pallets aswell.  I would like to make the raised beds from all recycleable things, that poss are free

[saddad]

If you can track them down those factory boards are great... each frame is only two boards... thay are long enough to do all the way round and about a foot to 16" deep... so two depths give a good bed..
 ;D

[caseylee]

thanks for that, I will look into that, I would rather reuse something and that idea sounds perfect

[Eristic]

keep your eye out for people skipping likely timber...

What would we all do without the local skip? ???

[Tee Gee]

My suggestions are here; http://tinyurl.com/2nhu9a