While I already showed you my new elevated garden beds, now I want to share my VERY NICE raised garden beds that Alan built for me. First I wanted to explain the difference – raised garden beds are placed directly on the ground and elevated garden beds are raised up so you don’t have to bend or kneel and have some sort of bottom.
I now have 2 raised garden beds in the middle of my garden that are 2 feet wide x 14 feet long and 16 inches deep. Just like the elevated garden beds, Alan used cedar wood. He put 4 x 4 cedar posts at the corners and half way along the length of the bed with 1 inch grooves for the sides to fit in. He used pine furring strips on the inside to provide support for the long boards and outdoor torx screws to secure the wood.
After the garden soil was put in, we noticed that the middle of the beds were starting to bow so Alan got a genius idea and did the following. . . he used tie down straps to pull the sides together and then installed put a metal hanger strap in the middle under the trim to keep the middle reinforced.
