Building a raised bed wall
 

I'm building my garden from scratch and would like to build a raised bed at the back of the garden in the shape of a half circle. I'm thinking of building it with brick but is there any other way of building a raisedbed wall cheaply?

Can you buy complete bed wall packages?

"Mike" wrote in message
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I'm building my garden from scratch and would like to build a raised bed
at the back of the garden in the shape of a half circle. I'm thinking of
building it with brick but is there any other way of building a
raisedbed wall cheaply?


I made a raised bed from treated timber log rolls, not the half logs you
edge
flowerbeds with, but full round logs, about 2 feet high and 1 metre long per
roll. The logs themselves are about 3" diameter. Not the most permanent
solution
but I reckon it'll last a good 20 years, I dipped the rolls in preserver
myself as an extra
precaution against rot. I'm tryng hard to remember what I paid for
them, I think it was £20/metre, though I can't be sure.
Don't try and hammer them in, they don't have pointy ends, just dig down a
few inches
to make a shallow trench where they are to go, and sit them in a bit of
concrete, you don't
lots. Quite a quick job, though there is a bit of skill and patience needed
in getting them
all aligned, and not sloping off in various directions. Use a spirit level
with both horizontal
and vertical bubbles. I lined the inside of my raised bed with anti-weed
fabric to keep the
earth from leaking out. It has performed very well.

Andy.

What about straw bales placed and stacked like bricks? You could
plaster the outside of them like how they make straw bale houses!
There is my 2 cents!
Erin