In this video, I share how to build a deep raised garden bed that saves your back and makes gardening easy! Gardening places stress in your back from all the bending. This DIY easy raised bed garden design allows you to garden from a seated position, requires less bending and is much easier on your back and knees!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How To Design A Raised Garden Bed
2:09 Materials List For Raised Beds
3:08 Measuring And Cutting The Lumber
5:04 Building The DIY Raised Garden Bed
7:56 Building Railings To Sit On
9:48 Sealing The Bed For Longevity
10:37 The Finished Raised Garden Bed
12:11 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 How To Design A Raised Garden Bed
2:09 Materials List For Raised Beds
3:08 Measuring And Cutting The Lumber
5:04 Building The DIY Raised Garden Bed
7:56 Building Railings To Sit On
9:48 Sealing The Bed For Longevity
10:37 The Finished Raised Garden Bed
12:11 Adventures With Dale
Greetings love that bed, can ask you the total cost $ in materials?
You need a kneeling pad sir. You only have 1 set of knees!
also if you don't predrill, depending on your wood and the grain the screws may have a tendency to wander with the grain instead of going in straight.
Great idea brother 🙏
How much did it cost to fill with planting medium?
RECOMMENDATION: Make the beds at least 24" high for those of us with poor backs. It's even easier on the back and knees. To save on soil, fill the bottom 30-40% of the bed with wood logs, branches, and clean yard waste and then add soil on top of that. Just drive around your neighborhood and you likely will find an abundance of yard waste that you can fill your truck bed or trailer up with.
What about Hugelkultur raised beds? Used in Europe and Germany using rotted logs and plant debris in the bottom of bed. That way you don't have to use as much soil.
Beautiful
We made our raised bed 2 feet, I believe. But we filled the extra on bottom with really spongy dead wood, leaves, chicken hay etc. The thought was to hugelkulture down there so in a few years we can dig it all out and disperse it among other beds. Then we can do it again. We got our dead wood by cruising the backroads, foraging out of ditches. We did a solid foot above with compost and soil
+1 On predrilling your holes.
Your project looks great! A square makes marking out lines pretty simple. You can also use it as a guide for the side of your circular saw as you cut to keep your cuts straight.
The top rail is a nice touch. Not only does it give you a place to sit, it can stop the boards from bowing out. If your beds are longer than about 8 feet, or made from thinner material, you may need to take steps to keep the boards from bowing. I used some very thin material one time and I nailed a couple of pieces of thick wire to each side of the bed to keep it from bowing out. I placed it about one third up from the bottom so it wasn't visible once I filled it w dirt. I ran it inside a 3/4 piece of pvc cut to fit perfectly inside the bed so that I didn't cut the wire by accident when I was digging in the bed later.
If you are a bit OCD and want your beds perfectly square, measure the diagonal corners. When they are the same length, your corners are square.
Two mistakes that I made on mine: 1) I didn't do a good job of leveling them. So the soil is higher on side then the other, even though the soil level is pretty level. 2) I assumed since I sat my beds on native soil that I also double dug, that drainage would not be an issue. Wrong. My native soil is called Gumbo, and it has a lot of clay in it. I had to go back in and add a porous drain pipe like you use in French drains to my beds. Then I cut a small opening in one side of the bed for the drain to empty out of.
Looks like hubby will be heading to Lowes Lol Love Dale 🙂 Great job thanks for the measurements
Use treated lumber or cinder blocks, lasts 10 times longer, cinder blocks 100 years.
Great design, but…
(Google) Search for: What would should not be used in a raised garden bed?
In fact, the USDA's organic regulations state that pressure treated wood should not be used if the lumber will be in contact with crops, soil, or livestock. Instead, invest in cedar or redwood to install a long-term raised garden bed with a high level of natural rot- and pest-resistant tannins.Apr 27, 2022 🤷♂️
What do you put in the bottom of the raised bed. Right now it is sitting on grass so wouldn’t the grass and weeds grow into the bed?
When you put in a raised bed do you place it on the ground or on the ground cover. If on the ground how do you keep the weeds/grass from coming up? We are in SC and LOVE you channel!!
looks great!
Hello My Friend! I appreciate all that you share with all of us "Gardeners". Thank you!
One question: How deep should I calculate for the loam, garden soil, compost etc. ,
I can calculate the CY, i just need to know the depth that you recommend for the dimensions of this raised bed. Awesome Video! Please continue teaching us gardeners!
Thank you in Advance for your response!
Your raised bed looks good — I'm in my seventies and not sure how long I want to keep tossing around the Roto-tiller — so — maybe it's getting time to be thinking about a raised bed or two —- Thank You
Wood costs much more in Portugal than the USA. Really costly here, so I’ll likely go with other solutions. Nice video, though.
How much did all material cost?
Do you have a plan for your raised bed garden? I want one like it.
Linwood seed oil is amazing. I use a cold press oil to treat any new raised beds and they survive better than treated lumber from the store.
Great job
What a great tutorial! You help me believe my 64 year old self can do this. If you are a novice, it seems you're well on your way to many years of greater and greater creativity. 🌞
I have a question… It wasn't clear to me if you painted the linseed oil only on the 2×4's or also on the treated wood. Thanks. 🌱
Super video!! A GOOD chance I’ll make one of these!! Can you say a bit about ‘filler’ for beds? Like branches from pruning trees and bushes and other organic material to ‘fill’ a bed so you don’t have to come by loads and loads of soil? Thus cutting the soil needs by half? 👍👊
I have 3’x8’x12” deep but I think I need to add more soil its going down So after my season plants I Will add more and mulch it, thanks for this great tips 👩🌾😊👍👍
You don't need to dig up the dirt in the raised garden? Or do you put a liner of some kind at the bottom? It's great! Looks professional to me!
Do you have a video on how you fill the bed?