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  • Making raised beds I can raise up (by stacking) whilst growing potatoes? An idea.

    Afternoon all,

    I am going to grow some potatoes in my raised beds and I had a thought.

    Basically, when I made them I knocked them up by simply nailing together the wood pieces and the sizes are all the same so I can simply stack on onto the other.

    I was thinking of planting my potatoes and to earth them up I could simply stack another raised bed on the original one and use the earth from when I dig the plots drainage ditches. I can then simply bash in some poles to keep the raised beds more secure.

    Any thoughts on this?

    I need to make some more raised beds any way due to the usual winter flooding on my plot.

    Many thanks,

    Samuel

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    I already do this, I have made my beds a standard size and can easily increase the height for say carrots or parsnpis, I would think potatoes would also benefit. It would invlove a fair bit of soil moving however so I use 45 ltr buckets for spuds.
    photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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      Bob Flowerdew used to do that exact thing with old car tyres.

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