The five benefits of wooden raised garden bed:
1. Wooden sleepers are a natural product; they decomposes naturally helping with the growth of your vegetables, un-like plastics that may decompose to form bad chemicals.
2. Wooden sleepers are 100% UV resistant; if you live in Australia you will understand how brittle and faded plastics end up when left in the strong Australian sun. There’s no better naturally UV resistant material than wooden garden sleepers.
3. We use the right wooden sleepers for raised garden beds. As Australia we are very lucky to have two of the best “class 1” durability and natural woods available, Red gum and Cypress. (Note Cedar is only “class 2” unlike cypress). While we don’t recommend treated pine, there are some “safer” varieties available such as ACQ. CCA treated pine is unsafe for food use. Please don’t use CCA treated pine. Old wooden railway sleepers may also be treated with nasty chemicals. We do not recommend using them either.
4. The beautiful qualities of wooden raised garden bed complement all gardens, some people like to let them weather and turn a lovely shale grey colour, while others prefer to oil their wooden raised garden bed to maintain the original finish.
5. Remember that trees are a sustainable resource (they are often replanted and replaced), the timbers that we use for our wooden raised garden bed are sustainably grown here in Australia. While trees grow into timber they absorb carbon dioxide so every piece of timber harvested is actually better than carbon natural compared with metal and plastic which require extensive mining refining and crude oil which is unfavourable for most people.
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Wicking beds
We now stock wicking bed boxes, these are a great alternative to high drainage sand. Garden beds require less fill and can hold more water, lasting longer between the hot weeks in the peak of summer.
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