Filling a raised bed without buying forty bags
The new bed is 2.4 m × 1.2 m and 40 cm deep, which is a little over a cubic metre. Bagged compost for all of it would have cost more than the timber.
Bottom 15 cm: rotting logs and prunings. Next 10 cm: the turf I lifted, upside down. Top 15 cm: half sieved garden soil, half council green-waste compost.
It will sink. I have left the boards 5 cm proud and will top up in autumn.