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Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: new_2_veg on October 08, 2007, 16:32

small carrot raised bed i just built!

got to be painted and lined out and then i will fill it up to settle for next year


(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e122/yoyo-dubs/garlicandcarrotbed001.jpg)

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: muntjac on October 08, 2007, 19:17

paint the base up the sides with bitumastic sealer will last for centuries  :wink:

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: Ice on October 08, 2007, 19:20

Quote from: "muntjac"

paint the base up the sides with bitumastic sealer will last for centuries  :wink:

Can you do that to untreated wood?  The other stuff is too expensive to buy.

Nice carrot growy thing N2V :wink:

Title: bitumastic
Post by: muntjac on October 08, 2007, 19:38

i do ? werks for me  :lol:  :lol:

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: new_2_veg on October 08, 2007, 20:47

Quote from: "muntjac"

paint the base up the sides with bitumastic sealer will last for centuries  :wink:

ive got some wax based paint that i used on my trailer, thats been outside you are year and still looks new so will try that first i think as ive got it

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: new_2_veg on October 08, 2007, 20:49

Quote from: "Ice hockey mad"

Quote from: "muntjac"

Nice carrot growy thing N2V :wink:

why thank-you

it will do, just off cuts from a job i was doing the other day, i looked and thought to myself "thats another problem solved"

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: Ice on October 08, 2007, 22:06

As I discovered on here a few weeks ago you can re-use the same site year after year for runner beans as their roots fix nitrogen in the soil.  So no need to rotate.  Can you grow carrots in the same place/container?  I ask because I have had no success with carrots in my three years trying.  Not a sausage.

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: noshed on October 08, 2007, 22:34

Handy for burying annoying relatives as well

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: leeky on October 08, 2007, 22:56

That's a bit of alright!  :D

Title: raised bed for carrots
Post by: new_2_veg on October 14, 2007, 17:54

it will do the job for a start

if i get the allotment next year i will build one on a bigger scale


im not worryed about growing alot of something, just a bit of everything :D