Making Raised Garden Beds With Sleepers

Check out these imaginative and inventive raised planter projects using railway sleepers.

Making raised garden beds with sleepers.

Using new or used railway sleepers to make raised beds are great alternatives to using bricks concrete or stone. Build this raised garden bed 20. Well all you have to do is lay the tires out and fill them with dirt. One sleeper can be cut down to create a 60cm x 80cm raised beds that s 20cm high.

Hold the sleeper up against the wall and mark it off. Two sleepers give you enough timber for a 120cm x 160cm raised beds that also 20cm high. From that line mark the width of the sleeper on the wall. Choose from softwood or oak and a size that suits your garden.

How to build a raised bed with railway sleepers 1 chose where you want to put the raised bed consider where the raised bed will be positioned and whether you can stand. Then plant your seedlings or seeds and you have your very own garden bed. Save money with our new raised bed sleeper kits all you need to build a raised bed out of beautiful wooden railway sleepers in your garden. Place the railway sleepers on the ground in a square or rectangular shape.

How to build a rectangle raised bed with sleepers 1. The only other tool you ll need is an electric drill and a drill bit. There are many ways to construct sleeper beds but we recommend laying your sleepers in frames so the corner butt joints are overlapped and secured with heavy duty exterior timber screws. When you re building your raised garden bed up against a wall take into account the thickness of the sleeper that will be attached to your support posts.

Fours sleepers provide enough wood for a 40cm high raised beds that measure 120cm x 160cm making it sizable and sit on able too. For our example we are using sleepers in lengths of 2 4 metres so these can be cut to the desired. Raised beds are traditionally constructed from sleepers that are fixed at right angles to form a frame. Each kit contains sleepers membrane landscaping screws and soil.

And to all of you enjoying these pages with dreams and schemes in your head let s see what railway sleeper raised bed projects you finally plan and what you manage to create. Sleepers are heavy by nature so if you are only building a frame with one level you may choose to position the sleepers without fixing. Do you want to make a raised bed out of railway sleepers but unsure how.