wilkes

I used old cresot power poles once for a raised bed for strawberries filled with compose then used tiller to mix with soil, worked great

I used 2 x 8 lumber then I used black plastic to line the inside of the boards with and filled the beds with a mixture of pete moss, compost and vermiculite. Buy the book "square foot gardening".

Some people use land scape timbers to build them. Be sure to put gravel in the bottoms for drainage.

I built 3 of them a few years go, out of 4"x4" x 8' treated posts. I built mine entirely out of those posts that have the "rounded" sides, but are flat on the top and bottom; just so they would sit on top each other, and give me that Lincoln Log, look. I drilled 1" diameter holes down through all my logs, at 1' intervals, then drove a piece of steel rebar down through them into the ground, to anchor them.


I think the sides of mine are about 16" high. I agree PDTW, and for the same reason he did, confined my raised beds to just 4' wide, x 8' long, to better facilitate weeding and tending.


My raised bed were good - for a while, but I eventually fell out of tending to them regularly like I should have been, and now they're just overgrown weed-planters.They are cheap and easy to build, though.


Good luck with yours!

We built our beds 4 x 4 & used 12 inch width boards so we would have a good depth to fill in with dirt. We decided to go with 4 x 4 instead of 8 x 8 so we could reach it all the way around without having to crawl in it for anything. worked great for us.

We'd like to raise our 3 veggie gardens this year (each garden is 8' x 8'). Thinking about using 8-inch cedar boards, but read that if you use boards longer than 4-foot long, you should brace them in the middle. Has anyone done this with their gardens? How much did you raise them? What type of material did you use as a frame? Have you had much luck?