building a veggie patch

Hello



this is my first post so go easy on me... its not a toughy but im looking for some ideas and a little help.



also it could be in the bricklaying or fencing sections but heck...



soo the plan - build an enclosed veggie patch. with a number of raised beds within.

The external wall will be 4 courses of bricks high and i need to put an additional (wood) fence on top of the bricks to around a meter in height for the purposes of keeping bunnies out etc. inside this bunnie fort Knox will be several raised beds that are made of wood, the ones on the edge will have internal walls made of wood. there will be a number of gates into this garden of eden according to her indoors



now the questions

• Will single brick with the stretch facing out be ok? i wuld think the longest wall would be 4 meters long so would chuck a peer in there? would that be sufficient as a retaining wall for the beds, ive just built some triangular shaped ones this way and they seems to be ok..


• would a peer of two bricks be enough to fix the fence on top of the wall? and how... and if not how the hell would i get the fence post in... maybe set it into the ground inside the wall and have the pallings running around the top?so nothing actually fixed onto the brick wall?


• would having the internal walls of the raised beds that butt upto the brick outer wall need anything to connect them to the brick walls? i have been known to over engineer these things so i suspect i would make the wooden sections of the raised beds capable of withstanding most things without needing additional stability


• between the raised beds putting down some pebbles...lots of pebbles... weed mat onto the ground then chuck the pebbles on top? or should i do anything else?

ive only ever laid bricks once before so dont really want to do more brickwork than i have to.



any thoughts would be great



cheers



Jason





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