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If money was almost no object how would you make reasonable high raised beds?
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I would have them about a ft high if money were no object... I'm happy (and able) to kneel down, so wouldn't need them any higher -
If money were no object...I'd get someone else to do them!
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Would 3 high be a nice height? Am trying to visualise but failing miserably so will have to find a tapemeasure I think
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If money was no object, 4 foot would be brilliant.........I'm 6'3"..........
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Stand alongside your dining table, reach into the middle, and try to imagine planting something in it. Can you reach easily, do you have to bend or not - do you want to bend over it?Originally posted by alldigging View PostWould 3 high be a nice height? Am trying to visualise but failing miserably so will have to find a tapemeasure I think
I'm 5'2" and I wouldn't want anything too high. My tables are about 2'6", or half my height, and seems more than high enough.Comment
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I'm nearly 5' 8" and as you all know, my knees are shot, so dining table height would be brilliant.Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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There's these but they don't have a huge growing space but have a clearance of 700mm under the bed bit...
Three sleeper high isn't that high 125mm x 3 is only 37.5cm high off the ground
(Unless you could stack them so they were 250mm high so it'd be 75cm off the ground)Comment
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actually, would a raised bed that rose towards the middle be better? Like a sloping sided raised bed but 3ft high rising to 4 or five foot? It's be easier to reach higher than bend over lower in the middle.
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That's a good point. Have no idea how you'd make one like that that'd stay like that though.Comment
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Prepare yourself, alldigging, I feel a Hugelkultur moment is approaching
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Wouldn't it really dry out in the middle, at its highest? I have in the past planted into the middle of a compost heap (after taking the dalek up and off) ~ it's been impossible to keep it adequately wateredOriginally posted by taff View PostAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Its not just building the beds its filling them as well. Approx 30" deep is going to take a lot of filling and to work the bed properly before planting next year will be a major exercise.
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I have two that are 3 scaffold boards high,was an effort(and expense) to fill them but I did have stonking great carrots and p**snipsComment
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I htink it's all down to what you use to make the bed. The hugel bed I made last year, after I finally covered the spent compost with a mulch [grass cuttings] has been moist all over, so moist that slugs are clambering on it and eating my bergamot.Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
If you mulch it, or pack a lot of plants in so there's little surface to evaporate water from, it should work.
If something is moist to start with, and you prevent it from losing moisture, keeping it that way shouldn't be a trial well, hopefully...I'm planting a squash on the hugel bed as well to test it out. I'll report back on water holding abilities. It's not as tall, but it's easily twice the height of the other raised bed I've got for the roots that does dry out really badly.
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