it’s approaching feburary, and now is the time to start prepping the garden for all the things i want to do to it; first up is the raised bedding that i want to build, to absorb some excess soil that is in my garden, and so that i can plant-out herbs and salad vegetables in a sunny spot, safe(r) from ground-crawling creeblies.
The soil that I want to re-use in in a couple of banks that need levelling; one is about 2.5m square and 50cm deep, raked across its width, yielding between 1.5 and 2.0 cubic metres of soil. The other is 3.5m x 1m x 60cm raked being another 2.0 to 2.5 cubic metres. Call it a total of 4 cubic metres, +/- 0.5, which I can top-up with compost. So soil is not a problem – i will probably still have excess – but storing it is. What I am looking to do is build an open-topped wooden box, approx 75cm high and 1.5m wide and 3m long; originally I was looking at railway sleepers (amer: wooden railroad ties, about 4in x 8in x 8ft) as construction material, but they are about 10 quid each, yielding a total cost in the 200+ pounds sterling region. so i am now thinking about sinking multiple 3″x3″ pressure-treated timber about 1ft deep into concrete footings, and using the framework that provides to buttress a carcass of similarly-treated 3/4″ or 1″ exterior-grade planking; line the bottom and inside of the planks with a moisture-permeable but dirt-and-critter proof liner, and fill it up. actually, i wonder what google has to offer… erm… Hmmm… I quite like the “stepped” idea that is in this picture: …but I don’t really want to wrap it around a corner. Hmmm… I really should pop into aa timber yard and get some comparative prices; the techniques describes fit prettymuch what I worked-out in my own head, so at least I am thinking along the right track. [tcebookstore.org]
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