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Making garden beds with sleepers.
Cement block raised garden beds.
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Build this raised garden bed 27.
Plants can be healthier and more productive in a raised bed because you can control the quality of the soil and water drainage.
Sleepers also enhance your outdoor aesthetics.
An ideal material for building raised beds garden sleepers are a popular choice thanks to their rustic look and rugged reliability.
C advantages of a raised bed 100 s of raised beds.
A clean look that is sturdy and functional.
Use the roofing square to make sure that the corner is square.
Laying down sleepers for garden edging is a fairly simply diy project.
Drill a temporary screw to join the sleeper at the other end so it makes a corner.
Giving you plenty of design freedom to suit the layout of your garden they can be cut to any size and are ideal for growing flowers trees soft fruits vegetables plants and shrubs.
When making a raised bed instead of going in ground you can place it where the sun or shade is the best for the plants you want to cultivate.
We ll show you how to build a raised garden bed with sleepers including tips on how to build your supports and how to prevent water run off.
This is a creative diy project that uses recycled railroad ties or sleepers as a frame for your new garden bed.
You can also use sleepers to make pathways stand out more.
2 measure for the first support post.
Fours sleepers provide enough wood for a 40cm high raised beds that measure 120cm x 160cm making it sizable and sit on able.
Lay sleepers down the sides of the garden bed remove the temporary screw you drilled to make the u shape at one end of the garden bed.
It is a fantastic resource that will fill your head with wonderful dreams and ideas about making raised beds out of railway sleepers.
Two sleepers give you enough timber for a 120cm x 160cm raised beds that also 20cm high.
You can also prevent tunneling pests from decimating your plants.
Lay two sleepers down one side.
Providing optimum growing conditions raised sleeper beds offer improved.
Raised beds can of course be any size you wish.
Besides a diy project can t get too much easier than this.
Please have a look at some of the 100 s of raised bed projects on our railway sleepers projects page.
1 choose the right location.