Before building the raised bed the first thing is decide position.
How to make sleeper planters. Using a 4 foot level and framing square level and square the four timbers adding or removing gravel as necessary. A wheel barrel with drain holes drilled through makes a rustic charming large planter for outdoors. The sunken sofa is rimmed with soft pink flower. Mark out the raised bed area.
They are perfect for raised flower beds raised herb garden raised vegetable garden. Planters can be made from rain gutters either hung with cables or painted and attached to fence or a painted drain pipe. Wood and pallet planters. How to build a rectangle raised bed with sleepers.
Pallet planters can be made in an. Lay the sleepers on a level section of ground in a rectangular shape. This effect looks best with tall stalks of bamboo and thin dried branches. Place the railway sleepers on the ground in a square or rectangular shape with the railway sleepers touching at the 90 degree corners.
Make a strawberry tower from plastic nursery pots. For a look that s casual during the day but ultra dramatic at night install lights along the interior rim of your planter. As for the most important part of raised bed railway. This planter is perfect on this two tiered deck.
This window box planter is so easy to make it s all curves. For our example we are using sleepers in lengths of 2 4 metres so these can be cut to the desired size for your raised bed. How to build a wooden sleeper raised bed here we use tanalised simulated railway sleepers. After choosing the.
How to build a raised bed with railway sleepers. Like creating a big picture frame. Learn how to build the 3 season planter box here. Install the railway sleeper.
The railway sleepers should ideally be laid on a surface that is level and firm. Fill the sleepers with soil depending on the surface of your flowerbed it might be worth placing loose bricks stones or hardcore at the bottom of your sleepers to encourage drainage. This can really help to improve the reliability of your flowerbed in the long term you can easily fill your bed with any kind of soil which means you can grow practically any type of plant within the bed that you like. Screw them together at the 90 degree corners allowing at least 50mm or 2 of the screw to go into the adjoining sleeper.