If you want to have fresh, home-grown vegetables all year round, the best and easiest way is to build a proper raised vegetable garden bed using treated timber.
the whole plastic lining is not useful at all. Direct contact of garden bed with soil underneath allows worms and natural decomposers to climb up overtime and put nutrients in your mix. Also, unless you are growing sequoias or creeping perennials (and not even all of them) in your lawn there is no way any plant will grow through. Also everytime you dig around the box that plastic will get damaged and overtime you'll end up with shreds of plastics scattered in your soil. If you want a raised bed, use just wood and soil and that's it. However, raised beds tend to be drier than beds at ground level. And overtime the wood (at that thickness I'd say 3 years) will be rotten halfway through and you'll have to replace it again, which is a pain. Best solution is either: a) plant directly in soil (dig it up and condition it with some compost if needed, or gypsum if clay is abundant); b) use bricks, which is overall less expensive, less work-intensive, reusable if you decide to move the patch and much more durable than wood (over time). Just a few thoughts 🙂
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I am sure you'll learn how to make it if you'll read woodprix HANDBOOKS from cover to cover 🙂
You may go to woodprix website if you'd like to make it yourself guys.
You should go to woodprix website if you'd like to make it yourself m8s.
Just google WoodPrix 😉 I made my own thanks to WoodPrix instructions 🙂
so i made it too . just by using WoodPriX scripts:)
the whole plastic lining is not useful at all. Direct contact of garden bed with soil underneath allows worms and natural decomposers to climb up overtime and put nutrients in your mix. Also, unless you are growing sequoias or creeping perennials (and not even all of them) in your lawn there is no way any plant will grow through. Also everytime you dig around the box that plastic will get damaged and overtime you'll end up with shreds of plastics scattered in your soil. If you want a raised bed, use just wood and soil and that's it.
However, raised beds tend to be drier than beds at ground level. And overtime the wood (at that thickness I'd say 3 years) will be rotten halfway through and you'll have to replace it again, which is a pain.
Best solution is either: a) plant directly in soil (dig it up and condition it with some compost if needed, or gypsum if clay is abundant); b) use bricks, which is overall less expensive, less work-intensive, reusable if you decide to move the patch and much more durable than wood (over time).
Just a few thoughts 🙂
I am really sure you can build it yourself mates. I made it 2 weeks ago thanks to woodprix website.
This time I'll use woodprix instructions to make it by my hand 🙂
I made it by myself thanks to woodprix plans. I think it's the best way to learn how to build.
I made it by myself. I used woodprix woodworking plans for that.
I am so sure that you will find good way to make it on woodprix.
The best designs and plans are available on the woodprix website.
I made it with Woodprix plans!
I recommend Stodoys to every beginner and not only.
This is America. Please use inches and feet. Thank you.,
Treated pine for veggies. Doesn’t sound very safe.
Hi fellows. I think you need to take some time and take a fast tour on Woodprix website.
Weed matt is useless. Not good for gardens and what weed would grow up from that deep? Swap weed matt with plastic to line sides to protect timber.
I would so screw this up