http://blog.mamashealth.com/2009/05/28/freedom-gardenshave-you-planted-one-yet/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.mamashealth.com/2009/05/28/freedom-gardenshave-you-planted-one-yet/#comment-70656 Layne Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:53:03 +0000 http://blog.mamashealth.com/?p=315#comment-70656 I'm a wheelchair user and built my raised garden beds using recycled plastic timbers from Bedford Technologies of Windom, MN and they work great. the plastic is heavy and expensive, but the beds are indestructible. They are held together with 4" deck screws and each section is split in two. I used 2X12X16 ft, then cut them to 10 ft so they are 3 X 10. two sections each 5ft. so if I have issues with soil It can be cleaned w/o having to empty the whole bed. I used silicon in the seams to prevent erosion and held them together with joist hangers. Local soil peat, manure ans compost were used to fill them. I use cofee grounds, egg shells, wood ashes and natural fertilyzer like fish emulsion. Just thought I'd share. PEACE I’m a wheelchair user and built my raised garden beds using recycled plastic timbers from Bedford Technologies of Windom, MN and they work great. the plastic is heavy and expensive, but the beds are indestructible. They are held together with 4″ deck screws and each section is split in two. I used 2X12X16 ft, then cut them to 10 ft so they are 3 X 10. two sections each 5ft. so if I have issues with soil It can be cleaned w/o having to empty the whole bed. I used silicon in the seams to prevent erosion and held them together with
joist hangers. Local soil peat, manure ans compost were used to fill them. I use cofee grounds, egg shells, wood ashes and natural fertilyzer like fish emulsion. Just thought I’d share. PEACE

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