Post 191: £15 B & Q Raised Bed

This weekend I had been planning on building an additional raised bed out of some leftover sleepers. Building with leftover sleepers is hard. They are heavy and tough. By chance I nipped in to B & Q to buy some Sand and spotted raised beds for £15. These looked like much easier work. And they were twice the area of the ones I'd bought for £60 last year.

This is what you get, basically two long planks (1.8 metres long) with spikes to drive into the ground and two end pieces (0.9 metres). The height is ~25 cm.  And a dozen screws.

There didn't really appear to be any right place of wrong place to put these screws - so no measuring required. It was all pretty easy to make into a box shape and then screw together. Unlike when I've attempted doing anything with sleepers, I could carry the whole built thing on my own. Which makes digging out particularly easy - line it up, see if it fits and dig a bit more until it does. It did grumble a bit about being knocked level with a mallet, but what can you expect for £15?

About an hour later - including time for digging and taking a little breather between digging, this is what I ended up with:

£15 very well spent I'd say! I'll have to bend over a bit more to do my gardening than with the ones I bought last year - but for £45 quid less and many hours less in the making I'm well pleased.

I'm now feeling very manly. It won't last, back to typing stuff in to tellies tomorrow.