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Thanks again Paul ...I love your work and I am a raised beds fan ...(the hooped mini greenhouse was a terrific tip) ...I am on very heavy clay and grow almost everything that way.
Remember if you are building raised beds for a wheelchair user or other sitting gardener to make the bed narrower, no more than 3 feet but 2 feet is even better, unless it is accessible from every side.
Ive had raised beds for 4 years now - love them! Mine are 4 feet wide with a 2 foot walk in between which is about right for a walker( should it ever be needed) but - sadly - too narrow for a wheelbarrow! Something I did not think about when planning the layout.
Two of the beds are '2 boards high' one is '3 boards high' i.e. 16 and 24 inches. The higher is better and I can easily raise the other because we left the corner posts in place.
Also two of my beds were 12 feet long . They were built and filled in the fall - in the spring it was obvious the sides were bowing out in the middle in spite of the fact there were pillars spaced along the length and we had to remove some dirt and add 'come alongs' to pull in the boards. The bed that was only 8 feet long was not a problem.
On one end we build a 'pergola' with lattice at the end of each bed for things like clematis.
