Need all the help I can get, building raised beds - Page 2

rockhound · March 11, 2013

For a bed 18-24 inches deep you could fill all but the upper 12 inches with wood. Firewood, cut-up tree limbs or anything. It will rot all along and sink a little after a few years but you can make up that shrinkage with manure, leaves etc or anything you add to the growing layer in fall/winter. Just something to think about.

Baja_Traveler · March 11, 2013

Here's my raised beds in Clairemont - treated 2x12's and 4x4's screwed together with deck screws. Pretty easy to put together - I laid weed cloth down across the whole yard, then built the raised beds on top of it. I went to Evergreen Nursery and bought amended top soil for $12 a yard ( I have my own truck), then filled in around the beds with that ground up and dyed oak pallet chips they have.
The picture is from December, as my lettuce was just coming up - and after I harvested my carrots and a bunch of broccoli.

March 11, 2013	#16
rockhound Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Tennessee Posts: 285	For a bed 18-24 inches deep you could fill all but the upper 12 inches with wood. Firewood, cut-up tree limbs or anything. It will rot all along and sink a little after a few years but you can make up that shrinkage with manure, leaves etc or anything you add to the growing layer in fall/winter. Just something to think about.

March 11, 2013	#17
Baja_Traveler Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: San Diego, Ca Zone 10b Posts: 26	Here's my raised beds in Clairemont - treated 2x12's and 4x4's screwed together with deck screws. Pretty easy to put together - I laid weed cloth down across the whole yard, then built the raised beds on top of it. I went to Evergreen Nursery and bought amended top soil for $12 a yard ( I have my own truck), then filled in around the beds with that ground up and dyed oak pallet chips they have. The picture is from December, as my lettuce was just coming up - and after I harvested my carrots and a bunch of broccoli.