How To Make A Raised Garden Bed From Pallets

Raised bed gardening can help you manage a small garden by saving you time and money.

How to make a raised garden bed from pallets. To maximize your growing area insert two to three plants per pallet opening all the way around your pallets until you reach the top of the raised garden bed. Welcome to my garden. Tomatoes zucchini plants or even pumpkins are all good choices as they tend to expand in both height and width as they grow. In this instructable i will show you how to build a couple of free raised bed boxes using pallet wood.

And it really cuts down on weeding. Very helpful lee thank you. Wood pallet raised garden bed from ma passion du verger. Let me show you how.

Use at least 3 nails for these one on each side and in the middle. Build a raised bed in your garden and notice fewer weeds fluffier soil and more convenience. Pallets are an excellent source of free materials to build just about anything. The raised bed gardens designed here are made.

Normally they are already heat treated and are in most cases made of hard wood. It is super easy to make. Once the sides are planted chose a few more plants for the center of your pallet. Here is what you should look for.

The answer is yes and no. Make sure you line the nails up to the most solid part of the wood on the thin side. A raised wood pallet garden bed. The thing is there are many different kinds of pallets and they are all treated differently.

Stand the boards perpendicular to each other and hammer them together with your longer 3 inch or so nails. Took me less than a day to have a number of pallet garden beds ready for planting. Line your raised bed with landscape fabric to keep the soil from migrating out when you irrigate your plants. Raised garden beds can be quite expensive so i want to show you how you can make your own raised garden beds from palletsyou might have heard that pallet wood isnt safe to use for garden beds where you will be planting vegetables.

Before we start building the raised garden bed you might be wondering is it safe to build a raised garden bed from pallet wood. The ideal height of a raised bed is 6 to 12 inches but you can go higher if you reinforce the walls with staking to prevent outward bowing. I grow vegetables in raised beds since it is more convenient useful and attractive. Tips for a raised bed vegetable garden raised bed vegetable gardening takes very little space and allows vegetables to be grown closer together.

The final result should look like this. Enjoy your new raised bed garden.