My garden faces west and slopes down to the bottom about 100 feet away . My
veg patch and greenhouse are at the bottom and are doing fine .My question
is on the north fence my neighbour has some laylandi about eight foot high
which have taken all the goodness out of the soil and killed a Victoria plum
tree .I was thinking of putting some raised beds along here as it has a lot
of sun,any suggestion on how to build them.
Tony

"Tony Brazier" wrote in message
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My garden faces west and slopes down to the bottom about 100 feet
away . My
veg patch and greenhouse are at the bottom and are doing fine .My
question
is on the north fence my neighbour has some laylandi about eight
foot high
which have taken all the goodness out of the soil and killed a
Victoria plum
tree .I was thinking of putting some raised beds along here as it
has a lot
of sun,any suggestion on how to build them.

I doubt if the plum tree died as a result of the presence of the
leylandii. There is an 8 ft leylandii hedge between my neighbour's
and my garden. We both have mixed borders along the hedge, with
plants up to about 3 ft from the trunks of the leylandii. Both are
thriving. We both feed the beds regularly with Growmore and we apply
very generous amounts of compost as mulches.

Having said that, neither of us are particularly enamoured with
leylandii, but we live in reasonable harmony with it.

Franz