Trampoline frame raised bed - Ideas please.

[veggiechicken]

Sheer genius Mikey!! I've been looking at it for too long and been trying to detach the end above the open space, rather than above the base bar.
Now, if I whack in some uprights I can spring the gap open enough to sidle through - and without having to cut anything

Thank you

[snohare]

Damn, there's clever now ! I wouldn't have thought of that, just assumed they were too rigid.
I'll tell you what though, I'm rather regretting that I didn't grab that metalwork and use it to make a minigreenhouse for my allotment. Oh well, that's what I get for not being a pack horse !

[Mikey]

Did the base come with upright poles VC?, the surround I mean, could you use these as your uprights.

What were you planning to do with it again?, I might be young but I'm very forgetful.

[veggiechicken]

I do have the uprights - and very nice they are too with big plastic knobbly things on the top. They may be for another crazy project
This is how this one looks now

First cardboard, then a layer of twigs and dead leaves. I'm going to let them settle, maybe jump on it a bit to squash them , then top it off with leaves, grass cuttings and old compost through the winter, maybe cover it with some old carpet. One big compost heap really!
I also need to run wire around the outer edge to slow up the rabbits
Its been a super sunshiny day for playing in the garden.
Oops forgot the future plan! Come spring, one giant raised bed

[Mikey]

Well done chook, you are better than me, I'd have burnt all that woody stuff.

[veggiechicken]

I couldn't - there was a nest in there! Also, I'm hopeless at lighting fires There's still a pile of big branches.......

[Mikey]

I love a good burn, I become Tom hanks in castaway. Fire

[Feral007]

Ah VC - this is giving me ideas now. I don't have a trampoline - well I do but the kids and dogs won't let me use that one!
But I bet I could get one on freecycle somewhere. And the huglebed thing would be great. I've some prunings and also some large pieces of wood that could be cut into shorter pieces and placed in the middle to rot down over the years, and hold the water in the meantime....tis windy today too, so maybe someone will have a trampoline disaster and I'll be in luck....well, not that I'm hoping for it, but I'm here ready if they need to get rid of one

Just still trying to work out what you did to be able to get in and out of the metal top tho. It isn't apparent to me in the photo.

[snohare]

I'm hopeless at lighting fires

Veggie, there is a simple yet foolproof way of lighting a bonfire, even in the rain or a gale.
Put a candle in a cardboard box - a tea light will do nicely, it doesn't fall over - and surround it with twists of newspaper. Put a piece or two of paper with dry pine needles, leaves, or twigs near to the candle where they will catch light once you have lit the candle. Once said items are lit, have dry wood you have previously gathered added to the burning contents of the box; start small and dry, increase in size and dampness as the fire gets going. As long as it is all sheltered within the box, the fire will build up heat quicker and manage to dry the damp more effectively.
Pine needles, even while green, and leaves with a waxy surface, will burn particularly well. Of course, it helps if you can hide the box in amongst the pile of wood you want to burn, but really half the battle is just having the dry(ish) wood ready to hand before you start burning.
(Spot the Conservation Volunteer who has spent 25 years at this...)
Funny thing is, all these years being "green", and I have hated adding to the carbon emissions with every day's bonfire !

[veggiechicken]

Just still trying to work out what you did to be able to get in and out of the metal top tho. It isn't apparent to me in the photo.

Just detached the top rail from the next upright, but the vital bit is that it is over the bottom bar, so keeping the circle intact. Here's another photo.

With a bit of a wiggle and a wriggle I can squeeze through the gap

[rustylady]

Here's another use for an old trampoline frame https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

[veggiechicken]

Update!!

Remember this crazy idea? The frame has been wrapped around with chicken wire and I've been using it as a "compost bin" - but the inner "soil" level is still quite low.
I'm going to need a way to get into the middle of it - a path to a keyhole. Since the limit of my reach is about 2', with a central keyhole, I could have a 4' wide circular raised bed around the circumference.
So, I'm looking for easy ways to create an inner circle that is sturdy enough to stop soil falling into it. I've been thinking of a dustbin or cutdown dalek - or it could be a rectangle made from a box. Whatever it is, it has to be simple as my DIY skills are minimal.
So, thinking caps on please

[shepp726]

hi veggie, had an idea that might help.
remove the piece marked x in red

then place 2 post in middle and make chicken wire corridor

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Shepp! I'm trying not to cut out too much of the frame in case I change my mind (I usually do!) but I have a gap where I can spring the frame apart. The corridor would be behind that and run as far into the centre as I need to reach around. I should really have done it at the start because now I'll have to move all the twiggy bits in the "corridor" Another look at it tomorrow

[Potstubsdustbins]

A dustbin would catch and store rainwater for you.

Potty