Blackberry jelly is so good though! My birds love the leftovers of the seeds etc.
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I've wondered the same thing.Even our wild dewberries are slightly tart/sweet but not bitter. I wonder if it's something in your soil there? I was just discussing this with my friend because she said all of her cucumbers are bitter.
It definitely looks like it will hold up better, but what I really want to say is, it is gorgeous! Alternating the different wood tones on the slats is really attractive, plus the way you matched up the fork cutouts on the 2x4s gives it kind of a Victorian look!
To let people know what we are talking about... here is a picture of the unfinshed pallet wood raised bed new design up on the sawhorses...
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And here it is, finished, on the ground with tomato plants in it.
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Thank you for your kind comments. I have been building raised beds for the past few years and I have been adjusting my design to make better use of the pallet wood and build the raised beds at even lower costs. The pallet wood was free, and I spent less than $1.00 on the screws and brad nails to put everything together.
I had a bunch of those 2X4's with fork cutouts from pallet breakdowns and wanted to use them in some project. The idea was to use those 2X4's without cutting them and having to remove each and every nail that might still be in the 2X4.
Some pallets it makes more sense to just use a sawzall and cut off the planks from the 2X4's, but that always leaves the bottom half of the pallet nail in the 2X4's with the fork cutouts. In this new raised bed design, I can use those 2X4's with the nails still embedded in the 2X4's because I don't need to cut the wood on my miter saw. That saves a lot of time and effort.
Also, using a demolition blade on a reciprocating saw to cut off the planks from the 2X4's is really fast and usually saves the entire length of the pallet plank. No need to try to remove the partial nails still in the 2X4's on this build.
And thank you for commenting on the alternating dark and light wood pieces for the sidewalls. I think it looks nice, too, but one of the big driving factors for me was that I was able to use more of my pieces of wood in my storage bin. I think it would be next to impossible for me to match up enough pieces to have everything the same color. And I don't want to paint my raised beds. So, I used what I had and used the alternating colors to my advantage.
I also made some pallet wood planters for Dear Wife with the same alternating color scheme. She likes them. So, it's a thing now in our yard.
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They [pallet wood raised beds] are really pretty.
I hope you get a few years out of them, because they are lovely!
Your planters look like they were designed to wick water from a bottom reservoir but your filled planters doesn't look like you are using that function?I've been trying to figure out how to put in my next bush bean crop without planting where they were last year.
Then I thought about the planters that were lying fallow, that were full of fire ant nests.
I dumped the dirt onto a tarp and let it sit for a week. When I checked today the dirt was ant-free, yippee!! I filled my little cart with fully-rotted compost, then added it and last year's dirt back into the planters.
I planted sweet potatoes from my local Super Market and also from Walmart and they grew and produced sweet potatoes. I don't think you need to buy slips, unless you want a certain variety that's not available at your grocery store.My sweet potato slips should have arrived last Thursday. They didn't. UPS said there was an "exception," that my address was wrong. It wasn't.