Raised bed
Outdoor & decks
Build a raised garden bed
DIY OK
Boards cut from the fewest pieces, corner posts, screws, a liner against weeds or gophers, and the soil by the bag or by the yard.
Answers
Sheet
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answers are yours. The rest are typical defaults — check each one.
How many beds
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1
Bed length
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ft
in
Bed width
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4 ft or less lets you reach the middle from both sides.
in
Height
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5½″
One 2×6
7¼″
One 2×8
11″
Two 2×6
14½″
Two 2×8
16½″
Three 2×6
22″
Four 2×6
Boards
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Cedar
Rot-resistant, untreated
Pressure-treated
Ground contact
Composite kit
Corners
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4×4 posts inside the corners
Metal corner brackets
Bottom
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Cardboard
Free; smothers grass
Landscape fabric
Hardware cloth
Gophers and voles
Fill
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Raised-bed soil mix
Logs and branches in the bottom third
Hugel-style, less soil
Buy soil as
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Bags or bulk, whichever fits
Bulk past about 1 cu yd
Bags
Bulk, delivered
See the Sheet
Start over
Beds
1
Materials
~$200
See the Sheet