This is version one garden. It's made from a 12 foot piece of 6" x 2" wood cut into four and then the corner bits are 6" sections of 2" x 2" - we could have just fastened the four sections together but I'd have lost 16 square inches then and when it's this small every square inch is important! The underside of it is a square section of weed-cover material that you use to stop weeds getting in but I'd weeded the area pretty well before putting the square down - it's sitting on some paving slabs outside the living room facing south-south-west pretty much. A lot of folks sacrifice some lawn to put these sort of raised beds in but again didn't want to lose any more lawn.
The timber cost under a tenner and there's probably fifty pence worth of screws in total used. The compost is all sorts of stuff there's some better stuff in there for the onions as they're supposedly fussy buggers we'll see. There's the soil improver stuff from the recycling centre and compost from Aldi and BM Bargains and all sorts. I reckon it's cost about £20 so far excluding seeds which were all bought fairly cheaply
It's divided into square each of which will have a different square of plants in it that are sown either in 16, 9, 4 or 1 of. You can have 16 onions in a square or 9 beetroots, you can have four lettuces but some things that spread out you can only have one of - tomatoes for example.
This picture is looking at it from the south. The idea is to put the tall plants in at the back (North side) and the smaller stuff at the front so they all get the sun. I've sited mine in the best spot I think I can - it gets sun from just 08:00 to about 16:00 in April - hopefully this will be enough - we'll find out!
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