[tizaala]

you could uses membrane instead of burlap.


http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/five-raised-beds

[spandit]

Although it's a bit ugly, I do like the concrete block idea with the integral pockets!

[Lesley Silvester]

I need to know how to make raised beds about three foot high.

[bloomer]

MGM for that height see if you can find someone  rid of old scaffold planks, you need something with a bit of thickness to it to hold the weight of earth.


We have supplied and fitted large raised beds for school growing projects and they insisted on life expectancy of over 15 years and no old sleepers so we used 2.5 inch thick 8ft oak planks bolted to oak posts on the corners, they were awesome, they are now 4 years old and I saw some photos of them a while back and they still look great. (They were expensive though)

[spandit]

I made a raised bed about two feet high - looked like a large coffin and took a lot of filling. It rotted in about 3 years and trying to dig it out is taking a lot of effort...

For higher beds I'd go with sleepers, the softwood ones are cheaper

[Fleecewife]

I need to know how to make raised beds about three foot high.

Can you get a builder to make you some of bricks MGM?  He would need to leave small gaps at intervals for drainage, esp at the bottom.  These beds would be everlasting, just about, and wouldn't cost as much as you might think, if you choose your builder carefully, and compare the cost to the finite lifespan of timber beds.  You could fill the bottom half with free draining rubble or Type One, then there would only be the top half to fill with growing medium.
In a previous house we did this to make a raised alpine bed in a giant curved shape.  We got the bricks from a dismantled Victorian factory chimney, and used the same bricks to pave the area.  It looked very smart, but I can't for the life of me remember where we got the soil from.  We built it ourselves, back in the days when we were young and fit 

[spandit]

You can quite often get soil on Freecycle/Freegle

[Fleecewife]

You can quite often get soil on Freecycle/Freegle

But you would want to be very careful that you were not bringing in a load of pathogens and weed seeds with it   

[Carl f k]

I need to know how to make raised beds about three foot high.

Have sent you a link on FB how to make raised beds from pallets

[happygolucky]

My brother  used an old wardrobe on its back, with the doors off of course but you could use smaller chests of draws etc then they do not look too ugly and are high, just drill some drain holed around and there you have it!!!

[Lesley Silvester]

Some interesting ideas.  Carl, I couldn't find that link on FB.

I might look into getting some quotes from builders but I'm a bit concerned that anything too permanent might put people off if and when we sell up.  At the moment the lawn is converted to veg growing, in my opinion a far better use of the ground.

[doganjo]

Here's a video on youtube

How to build a raised bed garden from pallets.

[Plantoid]

 
My raised beds Rolls Royce style made as :-
Class B engineering brick built beds on 300 mm x 300 foundatiomns of concrete  three feet high on the path side two feet three on the grass side . Each bed  has a functioning free soil drain in the middleof just over 1 foot square  , the walls have weep holes incase of down pours . The cross walls are fully keyed into the outer walls from top to bottom for strength .
It serves two purposes,  I can reach the middle three foot width from either side but prefter the three foot hight  to do the gardening from the paths ( bust up back etc)  .They are the retaining wall for the lawn to be level as we had a 28 inch fall of land over the 40 feeet width of the plot ( most of it  in the area of the beds  , it also sloped back some four feet from the road.
 There are 12  beds giving appros 120 sq feet of cropping space .
 At the front of the bungalow there are 8 beds also giving almost 120 sq ft of flower beds .
 These beds should see me turn my toes up and some .

 
 

 

[tizaala]

Brilliant job, have you made some glass frames to fit over the top for soil warming in the winter ? 

[happygolucky]

Plantoid, they are beautiful, I know they are due to your disability but all of us would benifit from having some beds like that, I know I would, you can get to your plants with ease and not get stuck in mud.
Disability effects a lot of us eventualy, its not being unable to do things its just finding a solution so you can do things