Suggest materials to make a raised bed with that are long lasting, and that can be recycled from trash?
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Pretty please?
I want to build a raised bed garden, but I am doing it on a shoestring (no actual money, just a nasty old shoestring). I am looking for at least 140 linear feet of material. The wall will be around 10 inches tall, so it should be something that can either be easily cut down with normal tools, or that can be stacked that high somehow. The material shouldn’t leach any toxic whateverz into the soil, as the plants will be vegetables.
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I use old tanks from an out-of-business seafood store. The drains mean a ready-made drainage system, and I didn’t even bother to clean the insides, since the fish waste makes good fertilizer.
Plus, they’re up on legs, about waist-high, making it easier to work ’em, especially for my sweetie, who has physical problems and doesn’t bend over so easily.
Eight bucks apiece plus twenty dollars to a fella with a pickup truck to bring them to my house.
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Don't call me dude
January 12, 2012 at 12:47 am
Go to a bottle bank and gather up a whole bunch of empty bottles. Lay these on their side to form a layer, then put the earth on top.
If you do this in a greenhouse, the air gaps in the empty bottles will help to thermally insulate the warm top soil from the colder earth underneath. This is what gardeners did in Victorian Britain.
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January 12, 2012 at 1:25 am