Building Small Grow Area

[Jay-Ob]

I just got some more wood from work, going to build another grow area. It will be about 9'' high do I need to put plastic sheet down again? Am
Putting stones in it for drainage. going to use it just for lettuce will I need compost, just got grade1 top soil at mo spare so using that.
Hope you can help.
Jay

[brown thumb]

i would not put down any membrane or stones, be cause if you want to grow any thing in future years with a tap root you will hit problems and top soil will be ok this year just add compost etc next year

[murkleton]

You will more than likely end up wanting something more than lettuce... don't some lovely courgettes sound nice?!

Also, there isn't much point building a raised bed (i assume this is what the wood is for) for lettuce.. seems like a lot of work for some leaves. But also, what ever floats your boat!!

If you can find where your council buys it's soil from your onto a winner. My friend got 2 tonnes of top soil for dirt cheap from the large wholesalers that provides gardening materials to the council. Also find some cheap horse manure... a lot of stables don't mind you taking it - thats where i got mine from.