Gardens - raised beds

[Kazz]

Has anyone got a raised bed in their garden and if so what are the sides raised by - bricks, blocks (concrete) wood what?

[CJK]

i got a sunken grass bit, but only cos whoever lived here before didnt lay the grass properly and it sunk, its an area about one foot wide and four long!!! the rest is paving slabs so i cant answer that


i actually ahte my garden so much

[Moli]

I have a triple raised bed in my garden, its done with fancy bricks....

[EmmaG]

My two vegetable patches are raised we used old floor boards, nailed into a wooden blocks in each corner and then a metal rods inserted along the lengths to keep them in place and stop them warping, they then had a coat of garden shades paint They have lasted very well over 4 years now.

[CJK]

i'm the only one with a garden that resembles step toes yard then!

[EmmaG]

You can just about see them in the left of this photo

[Moli]

Originally Posted by CJK

i'm the only one with a garden that resembles step toes yard then!

[Fran]

Brick walls are used to retain our raised beds. Although they are not quite finished even though hubby started building these walls last summer

[Donna]

I have a raised lawn area with is held together by those rolls of logs (previous owners idea) and my flower bed has a brick edging (again very previous owner as the bricks look ancient!!)

[CJK]

hubby was the cause of most of my garden problems. When he lived with me he decided he was going tot ake the paving slabs up and grow grass from seeds.
He hired a small pneumatic drill, as about a foot under the mud was solid concrete. He dug up all this concrete ( i think he just liked playing with the power tools)
he then left the garden ....summer came and went........nothing

then after 7 months he moved the rubble, to a pile down the side of the house, where it remains to this day three years later, he planted some grass,,,, but it died so he shoved paving slabs back down.
i cant manage to even lift a paving slab so am stuck with it.

i cant afford a proper gardener to come and see to it, so have to put up with it.

bit like my living room. Last feb i painted it, left the tops and bottoms for hubby totouch up, as i ahd painted the woodwork and didnt want to make a mess, so what does he do? rushes to finsih it so he can watch footy, i still have pink pain on the white coving and woodwork, and still ahve no border put up.

maybe i should think again about living with him again...