How to Build a Easy | Lower Cost CHEAP Raised Garden Bed | LASTING 25+ years in the backyard garden
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I've been using 14" wide galvanized steel flashing to form 42" diameter round bins for a number of years. Ends are cupped to self lock. Nothing else required. Will last even longer than 25 years.
I want to see how you actually used this garden bed. Did the sides bow out much? How well did the roots grow, even though the roots did not get any air from the sides?
roof flashing comes in colors and you do not need the cattle panels as it is a circle. just overlap the coil a few inches and rivet it together. When its filled it will have equal pressure because it is round.
14" brown alum flashing is 52 bucks at menards. you can get three 4 foot round beds per roll. less than 20 bucks per bed ( unfilled ). And they are brown. pool noodles would make an easy top edge guard for the flashing.
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Great idea. This is what i'm going to do. Thanks for sharing.
Ingenious!
This is what I am looking for. Thanks for your ideas
Where did you get the sign behind you?
what kind of wire did you use on the panels? And could you do these rectangular? Thanks Mark!
How do you make the top edge safe vs razor sharp?
You can make it more circular and secure by overlapping each end of the panel, then tie off with wire.
I wonder you are in USA, I am in Canada the price may different, thank for your idea.
I would worry about the aluminum leaching in my garden. I don’t even cook with aluminum. Food for thought….especially if made from China!
Could you line this with weed cloth instead of using the aluminum sheets?
1:05 hog panel, not cow panel
With the recent escalation of lumber prices this becomes the best most economical way to make raised beds.
BEST video I've seen in a long time ! ! Thanks for sharing it.
Is there a possibility of aluminum leeching into the soil/food?
How thick is that aluminuim?
Thank you sir
Good idea. The acidity of the soul will slowly wear out the aluminum. It will l st for decades. But you will have small amount of aluminum in your soil and vegees. Not big deal , just a full disclosure.
I am not sure aluminum is a good idea. Even if you found a gov't website that states is safe, I would be my health on it being correct. Issue is that is that alum compounds that react with fertializers, as well as natural compounds in the soil or perhaps produced by microbes. Why take the risk?
My recommendations: Stainless steel flashing, Stone, or non pressure treated wood (can use non-boiled linseed oil to extend). If you use stainless flashing, it would be helpful to pacify it using citric acid.
I can’t wait to try this! I don’t have a truck or tools to cut wood, so this looks like something I can do completely by myself! Thanks for sharing!!!
Just what I am looking for.
That's a cool idea, and I have some leftover flashing. With bare aluminum contacting galvanized steel, I'd be concerned about galvanic corrosion between the aluminum and steel once the galvanized wire starts to break down. Many aluminum flashings have a PVC coating, often brown on one side and white on the other, that might delay corrosion.
I made your previous version and this current version, too. See link below for most recent version with two raised beds and a cattle panel that trellises between them. I prefer the most recent version but I think I'll use the hardware cloth and woodchips for the next iteration. Thank you for providing creative, economical alternatives to the projects in which other sites are peddling expensive raised beds. Also, I think the folks concerned about aluminum are conflating aluminum in its metallic form and aluminum as part of a compound. Finally, any chance you can go into a little more detail about how you made your beds so circular?
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Hello Mark. This is absolute brilliance and something I must do some time soon in my damp and rainy island known as the UK. Subbed!
I like the idea, however I am curious how the aluminum is holding up. Anytime I flash with aluminum and it comes in contact with the ground it has a chemical reaction with the soil and gets holes in it. Could be my area has something in the soil that reacts. Anyway, how is it holding up?