Wooden planters for vegetables

[Gloriumptious]

Hi,
We had our garden (jungle) sorted out in autumn 2019 but I didn’t manage to get much in it last year due to lockdown. I used to grow vegetables in a long strip of border but that has gone towards the children’s football pitch!

So I was thinking I could put some raised planters on the patio, but I’m struggling to find anything big enough. Is this a feasible idea and where do you find large vegetable planters?

Thanks

I bought some large plastic pots and troughs last year that worked quite well for veg. Just googled and found them online. They aren't the prettiest but money is an issue and we have an expanse of concrete. Going to use again this year.
Raised bed is possible but you'd need to build it, you can find kits online too I believes

Try pallet collars. You can stack them to your preferred depth. B&Q sell them but they have vastly inflated the price since people started using them for raised beds so maybe shop around a bit!

There’s a company called woodblocx that does a lego-like system for building planters in a variety of sizes and shapes. Their website says they can also be built onto patios etc. The size & shape I wanted was very expensive though (£500), so my husband built one for me for a quarter of the price. Have you looked at robert dyas - they had quite a big selection of larger planters and also some nice wooden barrels.

These are all great suggestions, thank you!

I’ll check out woodblocx as that might work well. I think I need to be a bit more creative in my thinking, rather than the 1 m square that the gardening books say I need!

I've got a large number of square plastic tubs, like this. About 35cm high and 28cm square.They can be pushed together to make a rectangular bed. I can also shuffle them around - start beans off in the slug-free greenhouse and move the pot out once the beans are up to the top of their canes, move something that's picking at the moment to the front where it's easy to get at, take a pot that's finished cropping down to the compost heap to empty and refill.

I needed to drill drainage holes in the bottom, but that was easy enough with a drill, and not too tedious with the end of a secateurs blade (There are times when doing a small job slowly with the wrong tool is quicker than going to find the right tool.)

Pallet collars - if you google, there's a lot of builders merchant type places selling them, including some selling second hand - cheaper, and merge into garden better.

The pallet collars look interesting Bufferingkisses and MereDintofPandiculation.

They are certainly more expensive in B&Q but not so bad on the builders merchants sites. Although the point about being able to move smaller pots around is appealing and they are certainly cheaper TiddleTaddleTat, which is also appealing.

I may well do a mix which might give me different heights for some interest too. Beans at the back lettuce nearer the front .