Raised bed on a slight slope

[Naetha]

About to do a raised bed on a small bit of lawn that's cut off from the main bit.

It's got a very slight slope (about 5-10 degrees). Should I build the raised bed on the slope, or should I try and level it a bit first?

Obviously it will be more work to level it, but will it be a problem if there's a slight slope within the bed? Presumably it will have to be anchored a fair amount deeper to stop it creeping down the slope.

Build it 'into' the slope so that the top of the bed is level. The up slope side will be slightly shorter than downslope side and you may need to dig it, and the sides in to the ground a bit (so the base of the sides matches the angle of the slope but the top of them is horizontal -does that make sense? Hard to explain in writing!). This is good as it will give you more earth to fill the bed with.

we have a stupid slope in our back yard. My dh put in a vege patch last year. Basically, he dug in to it and put in something like a raised bed. It's a timber frame which he filled in... so at the top, it's level with the grass but at the bottom it's the height of the timber.

Does that make sense?

I'm just doing that with a flower garden along the fence-line but using a border roll. It's going to have to be forced in deeper at the top so will only have a little bit showing but at the other end it will probably show most of the border.

dh has done ours similar to kiwibella, so its raised all round, but more raised at the bottom of the slop than the top iyswim, then the top of the bed is level

That sound great - will make a trip to Jewson on tuesday to get the timber