I am going to make my wife a large raised bed for her salad plants as she
has trouble bending,but still likes to potter in the garden.This will be
very simply,a box on legs.Firstly do I line It with plastic and secondly do
I need to drill holes for drainage? As a matter of interest I got the idea
from an excellent magazine called Kitchen Garden I have just dicovered.

"miklol" wrote in message
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I am going to make my wife a large raised bed for her salad plants
as she
has trouble bending,but still likes to potter in the garden.This
will be
very simply,a box on legs.Firstly do I line It with plastic

Optional

and secondly do I need to drill holes for drainage?

Yes

As a matter of interest I got the idea
from an excellent magazine called Kitchen Garden I have just
dicovered.

Maybe you could use those plastic planters instead ?
Jenny

In message , miklol
writes
I am going to make my wife a large raised bed for her salad plants as she
has trouble bending,but still likes to potter in the garden.This will be
very simply,a box on legs.Firstly do I line It with plastic and secondly do
I need to drill holes for drainage? As a matter of interest I got the idea
from an excellent magazine called Kitchen Garden I have just dicovered.

There was an article by Colin Shaw in the Nov 2001 issue of KG magazine
which gave more details about the similar thing he constructed ' A
Simple Lettuce Table"

If out house wasn't such chaos at the moment I'd offer to find the issue
and do a scan of the article........

And I see also on the KG website that someone this morning has started a
thread about this exact same thing on their web forum.

http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/forum/view.asp?ID=8268
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