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    I'm thinking of constructing some temporary raised beds from old scaffold boards.

    Now when I say 'raised', I don't mean the type used to increase the depth of soil you have to work with. They're to go on a gravel drive base so the the depth of the boards will be the depth of the soil (does that make sense)

    As my garden is currently a building site, these beds would be temporary (no rotation issues, I'll remove the soil and use elsewhere each year)

    So I plan (in depth order!)

    a salad bed,
    a brassica bed,
    a curbit bed,
    and a root bed,

    What depth of soil would you recommend for each given the price of topsoil and this scarey website

    ROOT DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETABLE CROPS

    Maf
    Last edited by Maf; 25-02-2008, 05:27 PM.

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    Hi Maf, at the weekend i started to fill up my raised beds with topsoil that was going on my lottie. My beds are 4ft x 10ft and loaded these with 14 barrow loads. They still were half full. Over the years, adding compost will fill them so dont worry about the depth. Every year i will be using two of the beds for spuds on a no dig method. 2inch of well rotted manure, plant my spuds on these, cover with 2 inch of straw, more compost then more straw. Water in well. Crop rotation will soon fill up the beds. I hope this is of help. Sometimes local councils recycling department have topsoil for sale at good prices, but shop around.
    good Diggin, Chuffa.

    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

    http://chuffa.wordpress.com/

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