How To Build Raised Beds With Scaffold Boards
Using a half moon create the shape of your bed in the ground.
How to build raised beds with scaffold boards. Measure and cut 2 x 4s for corner posts to support the walls. Nail your blocks to the board. This design is perfect for sloped yards and flat ground. In a way these raised beds are little mini hugelkultur mounds.
On the long edge measure 8cm from the end and draw a line down. Join the nationwide grow along community you need to be part of today for free. How to build furniture from scaffold boards. You can also cut posts to install along the walls for additional strength.
Welcome to the grapevine where for 15 years we ve helped to make growing vegetables easy. We also cobbled together irregular raised beds with very old barn boards using wooden pegs we pounded into the ground to hold the boards. Run a length of string between two pegs to help keep the blocks in a straight line. Fill the moats with hay or mulch to keep the weeds down and as something to walk on so your feet don t get muddy.
Check the blocks are level with a spirit level. A thorough weeding in barely spring when the ground below 2 inches is still frozen and regular weeding as i wander with my morning coffee keeps the total of 7 beds. Measure and mark the length of the walls and cut the boards. I also show how to make planter boxes that are.
As the mulch rots down flip it over onto your raised mound for organic matter then refill the moats with mulch. Have you ever thought how a scaffold board has a large variety of uses other than being used as a working platform for scaffolding. How to build a raised vegetable bed. Place your four wooden blocks upright in the.
Make a mortar mix five parts building sand to one part cement. Mark out the vertical slots. How to make a raised bed 1. Well read on as in this post we will discuss all of the different ways in which scaffold boards can be used to build furniture.
They should be the height of the garden bed wall. This was fast simple and effective. Making a raised bed cutting the wood. Making a raised bed measuring the wood.
Starting with the sprayed straight edges lay the first course of blocks placing them on their longest end on a bed of mortar 5cm deep.