Garden Beds Blogs

If you want to ensure your garden has a positive effect on the value of your home should you ever want to move, keep it simple. While intricately designed gardens can look great they can be a disadvantage if you ever decide to move. Your taste may not match others and those with young children are likely to prefer gardens that are spacious and open plan.

Also, people may equate a well manicured garden to high maintenance and extra expense, which can be off putting for busy families. Keep things neat and tidy by using borders, edging and clear pathways. Using sleepers or oak planks is an easy way to separate paths from flower beds. Fewer large flower pots are less cluttered than lots of smaller pots, so use them to add seasonal colour to a patio/seating area.

Remember, clean, neat and tidy is the best way to keep a garden for adding the most to any home. 

There are a number of reasons why growing your own fruit and veggies is a great idea. You’ll save money on food if you can successfully grow your own, it’s fun and rewarding and fresh food is tastier and better for you than the stuff in supermarket packets. Spring is the ideal time to get going as the warmer weather will allow you to get the best results from your seeds.

You don’t need loads of space to grow your own; we stock small sized vegetable beds that will take up little room. Growing herbs is a good way to get your own fresh produce on your window sill while being cheap and easy to do. If you’ve got a bit more garden space, you can build your own raised bed using new sleepers. By building your own you can create the size and shape you want, whilst adding a rustic and attractive feature to your garden. It is best to use either new softwood or oak sleepers for vegetable beds, as the timber treatments are safe for growing food. It’s not just raised vegetable beds that can be used to grow veggies. Try planting some runner beans next to a trellis and you’ll have tasty fresh beans ready to eat in no time. 

There is an interesting article in the Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser regarding the transformation of the outside play area at Underwood Primary School. This school was the proud beneficiary of a £2,000 grant so they decided to transform their outside area and purchased some Railways Sleepers to create vegetables beds to encourage children to grow their own produce.

The transformation in this area had such a huge knock-on effect, there were posters put up across the county which read ‘Dig For Victory’, to tie in with the world war two rationing morale. The head teacher at Underwood Primary School said: “It's all about teaching the pupils about self–sufficiency and it will give them a better understanding of where produce comes from, so they know it doesn’t grow at the supermarket!”

Once again this magnificent story highlights the effect of transforming a garden can do for so many people. So what are you waiting for? Come and join the wave of opportunism, by viewing AVS Fencing Supplies fantastic ‘Grow your own range’, which consist of a variety of raised vegetables beds that will not only save money, but mean you will have the best tasting vegetables in town!

How many times have we said to ourselves, 'if only we had more time I could do this and that'? Well AVS Fencing can help!

The grow your own initiative is rife at the moment as people are getting ready for the summer months and with weather now allowing us to get out in our gardens, now is the time to start planting your vegetables.

But what if you haven't got the time to grow your own vegetables? Well, there is an interesting article in the Telegraph which highlights it is possible to get involved in grow you initiatives, without toiling from dawn to dusk. So there you have it, you don't need much time, just the right guidance, so get involved!

They recommend choosing the right raised bed, sticking with the firm favourites of vegetables and choosing the correct compost for perfect vegetation. They also simply keeping the vegetables watered and then let nature take its natural course.

So, all you need to do is get in touch with AVS fences or come and see us. We can talk you through the best raised beds for your garden and voila, you are ready to create your perfect vegetable patch. Come to AVS Fencing to save you that much needed time!

Do you need to get your garden back on track this summer with some improvements?

Why not try AVS Fencing Supplies Railway Sleeper ranges. Railway Sleepers have amazing versatility around the garden from raised beds, retaining walls to vegetation beds, the list goes on! With Railway Sleepers becoming more and more of a popular garden fashion asset, it has become important to choose the right Railway Sleeper for the right purpose.

We at AVS pride ourselves in our consultation services to make sure you have the right product for the right purpose. So don’t hesitate to either call or see our easy to use website for all Railway Sleepers ranges which include New Hardwood, New Softwood, Mini Sleepers and our eye catching rustic looking Second hand sleepers.

Go on, treat yourself this summer and come and see our fantastic deals at AVS and get that garden back on track!