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Timber (for raised beds)

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  • 05-11-2012 12:20pm
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    Xander_82
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    Where is the best/cheapest place to buy timber for making raised beds/vegetable boxes? I'm hoping to get a lot of this work done over the winter now. Second hand timber, if there is such a thing, would be perfect. Any ideas?


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    looksee
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    Our local recycling centre (Waterford) has timber that you can take. Amounts vary, you have to keep going till you find what you want, and a lot of it is rubbish and has to be sorted, but if you are patient and persistant you can find stuff.


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    paddy147
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    Xander_82 wrote: »
    Where is the best/cheapest place to buy timber for making raised beds/vegetable boxes? I'm hoping to get a lot of this work done over the winter now. Second hand timber, if there is such a thing, would be perfect. Any ideas?



    Used 8 foot long x 2 inch thick scaffold planks for 3 euro in a good few scaffold hire places and some builders providers

    Ideal for making a raised veggie bed.

    Of you could buy new 8 foot long x 4 inch thick pressure treated sleepers for 18 euro each.

    Simples.:)


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    zombiepaw
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    Use a few old pallets which you can usually get very cheap or for free. You can get the wood treated if you want it to last more than a couple of years.


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    redser7
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    +1 for scaffold boards. Check adverts.ie and donedeal. Widely used around allotments. Pin some heavy gauge plastic around the interior to make them last longer, or dont. Cheap as chips


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    Oldtree
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    a word of warning when it comes to timber for vegetable beds. you do not want treated wood or sleepers as the chemicals will leech into the soil and get taken up by the vegies which you then eat.

    I used ordinary untreated 2x4's from the co-op, for the vegi beds and they lasted 10 years before needing replacement.

    Sleepers make for fantastic raised flower beds.


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