Railway Sleeper Blogs

There are some popular trends occuring this year that can help to inspire you in your garden for summer; here is just a small selection of ideas to get you thinking…

Be creative with veggie beds

Grow your own is continuing to gain in popularity, the benefits of having fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs readily available in your garden are hard for many to resist. While vegetable beds serve a great purpose, but they can also be an attractive and interesting feature in their own right. Cut new sleepers to create angular, individually shaped vegetable beds to keep things interesting.

Canning

Once you start to reap the rewards of growing fruit and veg, don’t just pick the produce and eat it straight away. Grow different fruits to make home made jams or interesting salsa dips, store pickled veg in a jar, or keep a selection of dried herbs to add to oils or stock. 

Vertical gardening

Growing plants up from the ground, rather than out, using trellises, arbours and walls has become increasingly popular among those with small outdoor spaces, although bigger gardens can benefit too. Vertical growing will add a new dimension and level of interest to your garden, and using vertical structures will maximise the planting potential in the space you have. By growing plants up a trellis fixed to the wall of your house or garage, you can create a seamless transition between a building and your garden.

As the weather becomes cold and wet and the evenings draw darker it’s easy to neglect your garden. However, preparing some vegetable beds or water features now means everything will be ready for you to enjoy when the spring comes in.

Railway sleepers are excellent for flower and vegetable beds, ponds, water features, decking steps, furniture, edging and borders. When using railway sleepers for raised beds remember the importance of membrane and good drainage, as well as choosing non creosoted sleepers for any area in which you wish to grow vegetation. 2.4M 100 x 200mm softwood railway sleepers are ideal for use with plant borders and raised beds. If you prepare the beds during winter, by spring you will already have plants growing ready for the summer months.

There are some plants excellent for winter months that will keep your garden looking cheerful all year round. Holly, Christmas Rose, Dogwood, Viburnum and Wintersweet are all examples of great winter plants to consider adding to your garden.

The winter is also a good time to make new edging round heavy clay soil, as frost can help to break the soil down, making it easier to dig and manage. AVS Fencing Supplies have a great range of shovels and digging spades to help you with your garden projects.

For the full range of railway sleepers, visit your local branch or shop online.

British summer time is finally here, which means that we all get an extra hour of daylight in the evenings!

With this extra hour of daylight we now can spend more time enjoying the outdoors and our gardens. With this is mind, now is the time to act and to get your garden up to scratch by choosing AVS Fencing Supplies who stock a comprehensive range of garden fencing, decking, railway sleepers and landscaping materials.

So if you want to take advantage of this extra hour, come and buy online and view our outstanding April offers, which are complimented by our free delivery service on orders over £120!

Although much of the country is covered with snow – it doesn't stop you from planning your raised bed or retaining wall! Sleepers are becoming one of the most sought after garden fashion accessories of the year and this is not just down to their eye-catching looks but also their outstanding functionality.

AVS Fencing Supplies is proud to introduce its Sleeper winter offers on Second Hand Hardwoods, New Softwoods and New Mini Railway Sleepers! This winter Railway Sleeper promotion offers fantastic value for money.

So what are you waiting for? Act now and take advantage of our fantastic railway sleeper winter offers; either in one of our seven branches, on our excellent website or over the phone with one of our sales team. If you need some inspiration, you can visit our web page packed with inspiring ideas and expert help.

Have you seen our new railway sleepers? No? We've got some new eye catching jigsaw railway sleepers. Our Grange jigsaw railway sleepers are a fantastic product that can be erected easily and efficiently. The unique design of these jigsaw sleepers allows them to be easily slotted together. Not only does this practical system look aesthetically pleasing, it allows you to to be creative with your new raised bed or a small retaining well.

Our broad range of railway sleepers are vastly becoming a garden fashion must-have, due to their eye-catching looks, and great functionality. You can see our sleeper ranges on our website or you can touch and feel them at one of our seven branches around Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Bucks and parts of London! Click here to see our branch locations.

We think this new range of railway sleepers adds personality to any garden. What do you think?