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Raised beds are extremely popular with gardeners, offering many advantages such as improved yields and easier maintenance.
If you want to install raised beds in your own garden then careful planning is essential. It’s worth considering which materials you’ll use to ensure your raised beds are sturdy, long-lasting and, most importantly, safe to grow food in.
In this short video we share our top tips for choosing the correct location, size and materials for your bed – and how to build one.
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While this is an okay commercial about raised beds, it certainly doesn't provide instruction on how to build them. What a disappointment!
Lovely!. I am an invalid so I have raised beds 1 meter square, and 50 cm high in my garden. Very useful!!
Great update, thanks.
I have the thinner wood with corner and side posts i drive into the soil for stability. Unfortunately, the more durable woods like cedar and hard wood are either not easily available here in holland or they are too expensive for me. I use pine, painted with black woodpreserve and they are still doing ok after about 3 years. I don't see signs of rotting through or weakening yet. I estimate they will last at least another 5 years with some fixing up. I am considering to order a large batch of used scaffolding planks after these. They are not that badly worn out, just deemed unsafe to support weight or slightly cracked. A lot cheaper than the same size new plank. I don't mind them looking… ehhhh… rustic or have a splotch of concrete or paint on them. Black woodpreserve on them, good as new. 😀
You make such lovely videos. Thank you. Last growing season was my first garden in the residence. Simple was nice. This year I've tilled a 26'x7' plot on a small hill for a level tier, with high hopes of adding a new tier each year. My vision is to also include raised beds jutting out perpendicularly at each end, and build a stone fire pit and sitting area within the garden framework. It's nice to have a video such as this for reference and to keep the dream alive! Thanks again!
I use cinder blocks to build mine, with the holes turned upwards. Because I like my garden cheerful, I add soil to a few of the holes and put in a marigold or petunia here and there, just for fun! It takes 18 blocks to make an approximately 4' x 8' bed that is 8" deep. May not be the prettiest thing in the world, but it will last a long time, and it does the job!
Great video for small gardens and small raised beds. We have raised beds that are 4' wide by 44' long. Having beds that long with no cross bracing is a challenge. For anyone running raised beds longer than 10' we have discovered that frequent external bracing is a must. One wooden ground spike every 8' won't cut it. Our best solutions to the issue so far have been 1) poured concrete in place of the boards reinforced with nylon and re-bar (ridiculously expensive but effective), or 2) 18" long1 1/2" angle iron braces pounded in to the ground every 3'. This seems to solve the issue of bowing on the longer beds. Our beds are made from Douglas Fir and last about 8 years on average.
My entire vegetable garden features raised beds. With my clay soil, it's the best way to go about growing my own food.
I'm loving this channel! Thanks for all the great tips and very informative videos. 🙂
Good video, I have 17 raised beds all made from inexpensive treated garden timbers & doubled them to achieve a height of 8 inches.
Since I am only using 8 inch depth, tilled an additional 8 inches into the native soil & used it with a mix of peat moss & composted cow manure. I add composted cow manure with each succession planting at a depth per bed to 2 inches raked into the top of the freshly tilled right before planting.
he results have been extremely beneficial.
Discovered it is best to make each bed 4 feet wide & to allow a 3 foot walking space between each bed. I compost old leaves, plants, grass cuttings in each walking space & add this compost end of season to the beds tilling in the soil of the beds.
When we built our 4ft x 10ft raised beds, we put in 4 inch square posts (8ft long) in each corner. They are sunk 1 ft into the ground, so they are 7 ft tall, and the walls of the bed are screwed into them at the corners. We attached 2×4's around the top of each bed, screwed to the top of the corner posts. It makes a very nice frame for attaching our shade cloth in the hottest part of the summer. This has been essential in our horrible hot Oklahoma summer days. The plants do so much better with a little shade, and they don't dry out so fast either.
How about using cinder blocks or bricks for raised beds. Pros? Cons?
enjoyed your video I have three rasied beds in my back yard there 4×4 x6
really great video presence, makes me want to build my beds tomorrow ! question, alot been posted about treated timber. I have left over decking boards tanilised treated stuff, assuming that this is not good material to use?
WHERE CAN I FIND THE GARDEN PLANNER???
just put in our third raised bed.
the new one is on our porch.
Thank you very much for this great information. I like the fact that you even mentioned what kind of wood you recommend and the measurements. I have shared this video on my Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/vibrantgardenblog
Came from the Farmers Almanac page. Going to try this! Subscribed!
Nice update, thank you. I have some ply wood, is that any good to use as a raised bed? Also, what can I treat it with that is safe for veggies?
Hey what’s the program you use to plan your garden
What a lovely clear presentation with mouthwatering illustrations. Would have liked more on joining the boards together but generally very helpful . Thank you
Great Idea!!
Should we change the soil after each crop?
I am getting great Ideas from your video. Can you please give English subtitle ? because of different country, sometimes not able to understand. Please.
If you are putting a raised bed over grass, should you use cardboard as a base?
Can I use Cinder blocks or concrete blocks instead of wood in building a raised bed?
Very clear video. Thank you.
Where can I get the corners?
Nice video! Some of your viewers may enjoy this video of a man who inspired me to make modular concrete raised beds https://youtu.be/AAeOszVu4Vo
Hi great channel I am making a few high raised beds 18ins 7ft x4ft. I was thinking of putting in logs at the bottom then fresh horse manure and leaves, hay and straw, then topsoil. Would this work ?