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Raised beds Inside the polytunnel on a cold and wet day, but David was warm as toast! The 'dung walling' - timber (wood) that is 6.1m long by 18.5cm wide by 4.2cm thick - was used to make 'raised beds'. The beauty of raised beds is that they keep the soil in places where it is wanted, leaving the paths down through the polytunnel clear to walk and push wheel barrows. We waited for our local farm suppliers to have a 'timber sale' and bought a pallet load of wood at a really nice price. We did not want the beds to be too wide or we would not be able to reach across them, but we also did not want to waste any wood by having a spare bit at the end. The timber from the supplier was 6.1m long and so our beds (see the polytunnel plan) became either 1m wide (six of these) or 2m wide (three of these) and the full 6.1m long. In total we made nine beds. Do the maths and see if you can work out how much wood we bought - don't forget that when cutting the lengths of wood allowance needs to be made for the thickness of the saw cut!!