Making Raised Garden Beds With Sleepers

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.

Making raised garden beds with sleepers.

One sleeper can be cut down to create a 60cm x 80cm raised beds that s 20cm high. Fours sleepers provide enough wood for a 40cm high raised beds that measure 120cm x 160cm making it sizable and sit on able too. Repeat this process for the other end of the raised garden bed. How to build a rectangle raised bed with sleepers 1.

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. From that line mark the width of the sleeper on the wall. 2 lay the railway sleepers on the ground. Build this raised garden bed 20.

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. Each kit contains sleepers membrane landscaping screws and soil. Check out these imaginative and inventive raised planter projects using railway sleepers. 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. 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. Well all you have to do is lay the tires out and fill them with dirt. Do you want to make a raised bed out of railway sleepers but unsure how.

Using new or used railway sleepers to make raised beds are great alternatives to using bricks concrete or stone. Raised beds are traditionally constructed from sleepers that are fixed at right angles to form a frame. For our example we are using sleepers in lengths of 2 4 metres so these can be cut to the desired. Hold the sleeper up against the wall and mark it off.

Then plant your seedlings or seeds and you have your very own garden bed. 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. The only other tool you ll need is an electric drill and a drill bit.