Edging Ahead: Removing the Last Wooden Sides at Homeacres

Bed edges are often useful to start out, then it's a question of how long to keep them. Here I show you removing five year old sides from a no dig bed created in 2015.
Then how to retain the sides? Or not - here I add compost to make rounded edges, after adding cardboard to create a weed free edge.

Shortly after we had filmed this video, we also removed the sides of my two trial beds in the middle of the garden. They were eight years old but made of oak, so not too rotten. However I had been noticing some slug problems and the birds are now wider for having no sides. Now the only remaining wooden sides are on the new bed which I created one month ago, for this recent videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2aVZkjJa0

You can see me cropping this bed in 2019 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGL1Lh1cusw

I detail the plantings on this bed during 2018 and 2019 in my two online courses https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-courses-1-and-2/

And you can buy one section of the course with Small Space Successions https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening-module-6/

For Starting out No Dig, on many weeds and without sides, see my earlier video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LH6-w57Slw

Filmed and edited December 2020 by Edward Dowding.
At Homeacres 1000sgm, quarter acre no dig market and teaching garden in Somerset UK, temperate oceanic climate zone 8.

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