This DEEP RAISED GARDEN BED Saves Your Back And Makes Gardening Easy!

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

If you have any questions about building raised garden beds and raised bed gardening, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

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

[rickmoore]

Just a tip for anyone building one of these, put a 2x2 under the top rail and use screws just long enough so they don’t penetrate the surface. Attach the 2x2 inside and do all your screwing up into the top rail. The holes from screwing top down will fill with water and rot a lot quicker.

[robertevans]

FYI To anyone using boiled linseed oil If you apply it with rags or gauze. Never put the rags into your trash can with your regular trash. ESPECIALLY inside the home or garage. The oily rags get very hot and spontaneously combust. You can burn your house down from a fire. Stay safe everyone ! 🕊️🙏💟

[David-excellent]

Thank you for sharing this design and free cut list. Your directions were clear and concise and easy to follow. I will definitely use this design.

[AlvinMcManus]

Love this video, but having been a journeyman carpenter for 40 years I sure wish I could have loaned or gifted you a couple of tools that would have made your life simpler; namely either a framing square or more likely a 12"combination square. You do competent work and had some good tips like predrilling. I just use a fastener that is specific to structural wood constructions along with some metal corner reinforcement and avoid the predrilling.
Watching and listening to you makes me think you had been a 2nd grade teacher, because you really make it simple and easy. Us old "pros" can overcomplicate things too easily thinking we are making it "better". Kudos.

[jaytoney]

I just made three 2'x8'x8" raised beds, and lined the bottoms with 1/4 inch hardware cloth (Voles!). These are new additions to my garden today. My garden consists of a 10x12 polytunnel greenhouse (also new), 8 raised beds of various sizes, 24 grow bags (10 gal to 30 gal), two GreenStalk towers, and 7 assorted pots.

[AlphaFarms]

Since the ground is rarely flat or level itself, when I make this style of raised bed, I build the bottom rectangle first. I leave the leg posts long and with a level, lift the low corners of the rectangle frame to be level with the highest corner and set the screws into the leg posts. At that point, you can add more levels then cut the leg posts off flush at the top with a sawzall. This makes the top of the bed level rather than matching the ground’s slope. If necessary, I can mulch around the bottoms to hide the gap. I have even used gravel.

[dorindafulton]

That's exactly how I made my raised beds. They are 24 inches high and I can sit on them. Such a big difference. I'll put it in my next video soon.
Thanks for sharing and have a great day and happy gardening 🌿🌱😊🤗

[llcc]

What I appreciate about this channel is the effort of imperial and metrics units.

[timeenuf]

Great video - thank you for sharing. Realize things change in a year since you made this video but would like people to know Lowes (at least all of our local store) are disinclined to make special cuts. They will cut a long board in half to fit in a small truck or car. Home Depot will cut as much as you need in any size.

[robertderoeck]

I have two similarly-sized raised beds, 4' x 12' x 14" with no cap. They are about 10 years old, made from PT 2 x's with polyethylene film liner. The middle bottom was anchored by a 2 x 2 PT stake driven into the ground about 10" on the outside. The middle top was connected to the other side with a 2 x 4 held with two 3" deck screws on each end. The force exerted by the soil in a 14" high bed is substantial. The 2 x 2 stakes on the bottom were just pushed over. The 2 x 4 cross support at the top pulled out on one end with the deck screws just pulling through the end of the 2 x 4. Lessons learned, so for my next two raised beds I used 2 x 4 PT stakes at the bottom, driven 16" into the ground. For the top I used 5/16" galvanized wire rope with eyes made using thimbles and nicropress fittings. Each eye is attached to the top of the side with a 5" long 1/2" galvanized lag bolt. This arrangement seems to be doing the trick with no bowing after 5 years. I suggest you consider doing something similar to your design.

[jwstanley]

Now that is a a good-looking bed. Thanks for showing and telling the whole process.

[attocoulomb]

I made my boxes 30" high, and used 5" screws into the 4x4s. Also, an extra board, slightly underground, going across the bed between 4x4s in the middle, to keep the bed from bowing out. That was a lot of redwood and potting soil!

[teenagardner]

That's a nicely put-together bed with great instructions. I have 4 that size that we made out of clean upcycle construction lumber we got for free. I also have 4 16' cattle panels we arched between beds (2 beds per side). Thanks again for another helpful video. Cost doesn't always have to be an issue with imagination. I also put dried tree limbs/stumps in bottom of each bed to lesson the actual soil I needed for garden. Got from Gardner Scott.

[lynettetucker]

You did a excellent job on the raised bed it really looks well put together 💚.

[aytviewer]

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.

[claudettemonty]

If they don’t sit on the top rail, me I have a small portable seat for gardening! But now! With your good instructions, I think I will try to do it by myself ! Thanks.

[thatgirl]

You did a wonderful job building and explaining! Thank you for sharing! And I love that baby Dale

[rosedowling]

Looks like hubby will be heading to Lowes Lol Love Dale :) Great job thanks for the measurements

[JohnSmith-ojgw]

I did the math at my local big box store and three 2x6's were cheaper than two 2x8's, so I made mine with 2x6's. I made mine on the drive way also and then had to carry them about 150 feet by myself I decided to move the construction site to on location after the first one.