Build high beds of europallets yourself: DIY instructions and tips
You would like to build a raised bed of europallets yourself in your garden for the coming summer? We have a step-by-step guide for you to quickly build a simple raised bed of pallets yourself. As you already know, a raised bed offers some advantages compared to a normal vegetable bed. In this article we show you how easy it is to build the raised bed yourself and what advantages pallet furniture brings with it. You do not know the different layers of soil of a raised bed? Here you come to our DIY instructions for DIY – Raised bed made of europallets
Raised bed made of pallets – what advantages does it offer?
The summer is almost upon us and your plan to create a raised bed this year has been postponed time and again, so you need a quick last minute solution for your project? No problem. Our raised bed made of pallets is really fast and easy to implement. But what advantages does a raised bed made of europallets offer compared to a normal vegetable patch?
Actually, the answer is crystal clear on the hand. Anyone who has ever suffered from back problems or was pregnant knows how much gardening can break down in the evening and make life difficult for one’s job. With the bed of pallets you do not have to go to your knees and can concentrate in a healthy posture quite relaxed on your plants.
Euro pallets offer the optimal conditions to be able to build a raised bed yourself. They can not mold, are extremely robust, can be precisely sawed and were not subjected to any chemical treatment, at least not the pallets that were manufactured from 2010 and marked with the HT stamp ,
In addition, the light wood of the pallet furniture in your garden looks natural. And now come! In addition to the actual area of your raised bed, you also have 24 other compartments where you can grow garden herbs, vegetables and plants.
Raised bed itself build materials and instructions
And that’s how it works! All you need to build your raised bed of pallets is four Euro pallets – we have decided to use new Euro pallets to make sure that no toxins get into our planted food. A top frame, chipboard, weed fleece, tackers, screws, cordless drill, different types of earth and the plants of your choice. This raised bed was not built floor to floor, – instead we have used a top frame, which also serves as a connector of all Euro pallets. Attention when ordering your top frame, as the frames are available in different sizes.
We have used the dimensions of the standard pallets (120 x 80). In the same dimensions, we got a large chipboard, which serves as the bottom of the top frame for the raised bed and was fastened with screws around it. If you would like to fill your raised bed floor level, you simply leave the floor and uses the top frame as a connector of all Euro pallets.
If the ground is stuck, you can drill holes in the ground with a cordless drill to allow the water to drain off later. Place two pallets flush with each other at a 90 ° angle and fasten the top frame flush with the europallets as well. The same thing you do with the third palette on the other side. Again, to support the floor slab, we added a beam below the top frame to give it extra support. If you have everything, you can already attach the fourth pallet. Of course, the side pockets also have narrow base plates, which you can cut to size with a jigsaw and re-attach with screws.
Next you attach the weed fleece with a stapler. And then you can already fill your raised bed with the appropriate layers. For the bed of europallets we have used a total of four layers. For the first layer you need branches, twigs and shrubs, the second layer was mother earth, the third layer compost, and potting mixed and for the top and thus last layer we used raised bed soil. You can create the same layers according to the same principle, depending on what you want to put in your page fan. Are you through it, you can even already plant your raised bed to your taste. Finished!
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