Building A Garden Bed With Treated Pine Sleepers
Using the 35 mm screws and the electric drill;
Building a garden bed with treated pine sleepers. Repeat this with the second layer of sleepers. Treated pine is good if the retaining walls you’re building are only up to 1m tall. Cca treated softwood sleepers are known for their greenish colour tinge.
A trench was dug and lengths of timber buried to half their height in the soil, with hardwood stakes positioned in the bed to support the edging. Attach the right angle brackets to the end of each of the fours sides. This is a sample of treated pine which is light weight, easy to work with and reasonably durable.
Treated pine sleepers are commonly used for outdoor applications, such as building retaining walls, garden beds, steps and garden furniture. A piece like this, 2.4 metres long, 200 by 50 mil is only around 15. Repeat this process for the other end of the raised garden bed.
One of the most popular ways to edge raised vegie garden beds is to use timber sleepers of some sort. 600mm x 1200mm x 500mm internal: Just want some ideas as what to use to protect the fence from the soil.
Lots of people worry about the safety of treated pine sleepers for vegie garden beds, but new products and sound research should ease organic gardeners’ fears. And never use sleepers longer than 2.4m without extra uprights, as these extra uprights will prevent the sleepers from bowing. Hold the sleeper up against the wall and mark it off.
H4 treated pine is popular because it’s economical and you can buy it anywhere. A few runners may work their way under the edging but they are easy to pull out. Think lego or wooden building blocks.