On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:37:24 +0100, Peter James wrote
(in article m):

I want to put two raised vegetable beds in my garden. One will be
1.80m X .70cm and the smaller will be 1.1m X 60cm.
I would be grateful for any ideas from this NG as to the best materials to
use, and any tips. Thanks.


My posting re "Rased vegetable beds" has had a happy ending. "Her indoors"
also known as "She who must be obeyed" or "swmbo" has relented and agreed
that I can lift a number of patio paving slabs at one side of the patio to
create a vegetable bed some 4 metres by 1.5 metres. Not enormous, but a
reasonable size in which I can certainly grow runner beans, salad crops and a
selection of vegetables. The only problem is that the soil is clay and what
the Cornish down here call "shillet". A mixture of clay soil and small
slate. It will need a fair amount of work, but I will be at it today.