Thanks, Plantoid but at almost 68 I am not going to start cutting up pallets by myself. I'm useless with a saw anyway. I'll just wait and see what ideas Donald comes up with when he comes over at the weekend. He can only spare a couple of hours a week, and he's promised to set up a polytunnel for me as well.
If you can get him to just hack the pallets in half do so, then.....
scrounge some old dumpy bags/tonne bags whichever you like to call them. fix the pallets into a square with baler twine (
) and bung in the dumpy bag. fold the excess over the sides of the pallet and fill. Ta da! instant raised beds that you can sit on the edge of.
Also if you have a sneaky early or late frost you can pull the spare bag back up and tie it over the seedlings for a few days to protect them.
Pallets, dumpy bags, baler twine and cable ties, you can build anything out of these!!