Edging for beds

I've just searched the archive trying to find ideas for edging each of the beds on my plot (its on a slight slope) but drew a blank 

Lots of our neighbours have purpose built raised beds but I don't have the cash for that.  What else can I use / look for in skips etc?  I haven't managed to find scaffolding planks which would be an obvious choice so need to think of something else.  I have lots of pallets which I use to make paths but can't see how they'd be used as too narrow.  Imagination needed 

If you just want edging and not raised beds, I would have thought that the pallet wood would work.  Breaking the pallet up is probably the hardest part.  I've got planks only about half inch thick or less supported by anything I can find, bottles, bits of dowel, old bits of garden arch and they work as a delineator between the path and the bed.

Scaffold companies nearly always have condemned planks in there stock (Health and safety won't let them use split or damaged planks) so call up a few and find the cheapest, I bought some last year for £2.50 each!

These planks have multi uses, I.E. work bench, compost bins, fencing, stakes, ect, ect.

Gravel boards are usually very cheap, but using wood from pallets works just fine.

You can join teo (or more) pieces together with a wooden strut that they are both screwed two top and bottom, and if you make the wooden strut long enough you can hammer it into the ground to support the whole structure.

Just be careful on the corners that you don't screw in from either side at exactly the same height as the strut may split (as I found out the hard way  )

Using the length of the wood as a 'unit of measure' means you can create equal sized beds with no trouble ie three long and one across -or one and a half across) which utilises space well too

Mine are edged with old troughings that I got from a roofer.

Try a local landscape company - one close to our site keeps decking boards for some of our guys when they are doing landscaping jobs that need old wooden decks to be removed

I have a nice level site and I used the green corrugated rolls of lawn edging to delineate between the paths (woodchip) and the growing beds.

In places it already going brittle and is not fox resistant (Basil has shredded some when he has been digging).

However a local window company is moving and has shed loads of plastic framing and flat section that they have to get rid off because their new yard is smaller and it's not worth transporting this stuff. So I asked if I could have some and was told to take what I wanted. I have cut up lots of strips into 2.4m lengths and I have taken two car loads to my plot for the new beds and to replace the old stuff.