How To Build Raised Garden Beds 

😆 the drawing his wife gave him.

I love how he took his wife's drawing and turned it into reality! You did such a great job at building those raised beds! They are beautiful!!!

I really enjoyed watching your daughter figure out how to collect dirt and keep bucket from turning over. Smart girl. A lesson for parents. If given an opportunity, children will figure some things out on their own.

Everyone who decides to make this, be VERY careful around those roofing panels. The edge is super sharp! I grazed past 4 of those panels stacked up on one another & cut my thigh right open. Happened so fast! But it’s healing up great, and we’re halfway done with building two 4’ by 8’ raised beds, with this design as our guide. They’re looking beautiful! Thank you Simon! 🙏🏻

This is by far the best tutorial I’ve seen for a well designed and rather simple raised bed. Thanks you for sharing this with us, you have done an excellent job with both the end product as well as with teaching us in such a straightforward manner to accomplish this ourselves. Cheers!!!

2:31 Design 4:10 Walls 5:33 Metal on wall 6:00 Corners 9:18 Leveling 10:30 Corners 11:34 filling

Just started my my new raised be garden, based on your design. Actually found the process very easy. So Thanks!!! Built the first two beds today, 4'x4' and 8'x4'. Would have built more but lumber prices are still a bit steep, getting better but still. It's a good start. Figure I'll add beds here and there in the future, my back yard isn't very useful much being a sloop.

Oh so cute with the little helper assisting with filling up the raised beds. I noticed she had about a sprinkle of soil in her little bucket before adding it in anyway😆. This is a great project idea. We've got some metal roofing from a chicken coup renovation we never used. Thanks for sharing!

That’s a great looking raised garden bed, and it will be strong with all the bracing, etc. you’ve done that will prevent side blowouts which I’ve seen many times over the years. This would be perfect for someone like my wife and I who only grows fresh veggies for our use but we sometimes have a massive cucumber harvest this year which we did various pickling which Zesty Bread & Butter in any shape or size is my favorite, and whatever overages we had were given to friends and relatives. I’m pretty new at gardening with 2022 being my second year of trying easier things like tomato’s, Cucumber, green beans, peppers, leaks, etc. and it’s been fun and a great experience knowing I’ve done pretty well and knowing that my sweet little mother (a green thumb) who’s now up in heaven is proud of what I’ve learned from watching her and knowing that she’s smiling down on us for trying. Thanks, for the very informative video and keep them coming.

watching your daughter help with her little garden shovel at 12:22 was super cute. Nice design. I'm about to do a set of 3 of these all connected in the same manor. Good to see it done before I do it.

Great work and very inspiring. I’m moving back into a neighborhood and needed some thoughts about to build the right above ground garden system. You’ve started me off in the right direction, thank you

Great job, man - nice simple build for people to follow and it was very well presented. I made the majority of my raised beds from old hardwood railway sleepers and while that's a very expensive way to do it they will outlast me. It was a very good idea to seal the exposed wood on the inside of your raised beds as pressure treatment does little to protect from rot, especially here in the UK. It was nice to see some hugelkultur being used in the bottom of the beds too - that is so important for nutrient retention / transfer and mycelium development. Best of luck with the garden.

Great video and you created special memories for your family that will last forever! Your daughter will never forget helping her Dad!

The little helper is amazing and so cute!

I like the way you present the project. I built a similar bed with an L shaped walkway on our property in Mississippi about 10 years ago with a few modifications. I had 4x4 posts on the corners, and created a trellis around the sides for muscadine, cucumbers, etc. Our first season had a ton of tomato bugs and squash bugs, so I brought in some green lizards from Louisiana, Anolis Carolinensis, and they crushed the bug problem, along with a little D.E.

You have quite the little garden helper pitching in to help fill those beds Awesome to see a daughter getting involved with her dad's project!

My husband and I built 5 raised beds two years ago just like this and for valentine's day, he built me two more. Very excited for the new garden season.

Fabulous! I loved watching your little daughter fill her bucket ❤ Great job!

Really looks nice y’all. Little tip on planting tomato plants . You can plant them either long way and tilt the top couple of branches up out the dirt , or plant them deep with just the top two branches up out the dirt . This way the plant has a good long root system.

You did an awesome job. I never knew I wanted a raised garden till this video

I was looking for something that had a design to use left over metal roofing and was very excited to see this! I will be building something like this soon, maybe not as tall, but can't wait for the weather to allow me to get out and do something like this! Thank you!

For us seniors it is also a lot easier to garden not having to bend over so far!!! I raised mine this way last season!!

This is the 1st time I have seen corrugated iron in a raised bed that I have actually liked. Kudos that looks awesome.

Fantastic video. Little girl is helping Dad by her sheer presence and cute efforts. God bless the family.

I've been a carpenter for a long time, great build. Looks great

FINALLY someone makes sense and builds something that is easy and works

what you didn't think about when you added the planks on the top for added stability, was you added a shelf you could use to put your tools on while you worked, limiting the bending down as you do stuff. that was a great idea with an added benefit than just strength and stability! love the design, and it's so simple!

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths and cost people will go to reinvent a garden bed.

I stumbled upon this video today and was surprised to see the same basic design I used this summer on my own raised beds. I guess using corrugated metal sheets in this way isn't as unique of an idea as I thought! Haha! Even down to filling partway with old firewood, everything was exactly what I did. More than anything it makes me feel a little more confident with the ones I built, seeing another person come to the same conclusions about how best to put it all together. It turned out great.

TYFS + this turned out great 👍🏻! Loved 🥰 that your little one could help out too!

The little helper is so cute!!

Great video! I love seeing your daughter help out!

This is the best raised garden bed design that I have seen on youtube or anywhere else! Very well thought out!

Tip of the day when building raised garden beds you plan to grow food in, use only non treated lumber and treat the wood with food grade oil such as Raw Linseed etc unless of course you prefer chemicals from treated lumber.. :P

Nice and clean with no pressure treated wood to contaminate the bed . Well done, this is a pass along for sure.

WOW, a beautiful raised garden bed...just like I'd love to make.

The C shaped bed design was where I ended up at version 3.5/4.0 of our old garden. Definitely was the best.

That raised bed looks beautiful, and good tip on how to keep the bed lasting longer. ❤ 🙂

Man I enjoyed watching your little helper work filling the bucket, God bless, excellent ideas, I have an identical setup, mine sits on 2 x 2 concrete 4 feet apart to keep the wood off the ground.

Your little girl is precious!!🥰 A good helper! This is awesome!

That is an excellent design. Thanks for showing us how to do this, loved your little girl, so cute watching her help. I taught my son to help me when he was that age too. He now has his own home and gardens too, and his girls are learning by helping too. Great video!

How this was so helpful Nice tip to start a green house with that up raised garden bed

Looks wonderful

Great looking garden bed and very functional.

Call your local tree trimming/removal companies and ask about dumping a load or two of wood chips. Many give these away simply for a place to get rid of them and they break down into rich soil mulch quickly. Would make for a great base inside a raised bed.

This is awesome. Very similar to the ones we built a few years ago. For those of you who live in gopher country, before filling it is the best time to put down a critter-be-gone mesh! Definitely a must do if you're going through all that trouble. And fellow earthquake-prone ppl, you might need more support (ours slanted over a bit) and 4x4s in the corners were perfect!

Good ideas! Really liked Daddy's little helper. Great job!

Your little helper is a great asset to your team🥰

Super cool design! To avoid having to fill the raised bed with buckets, leave the 3 ft end panel off so you can wheel the wheelbarrow in to dump loads of dirt then attach the end panel at the end.

Imagine putting some benches and a garden table inside a nook made like this. Put some aromatic plants or some colourful flowers in it... magical.

I have been asking RU-vidrs for about a year to find out what song they were playing in the background. Thanks for listing it!

I love your design for these beds!

This was an awesome raised bed!

Absolutely beautiful! Really enjoyed this video and love the work you do! Great design!😀🌻

Great job you all did !!

Genuis idea. Just took my gardens down as the wood rotted over the years. Was looking for ideas and this is it !

To solve your 2x4 rot out. Put pea gravel around it with a half cut drainage pipe over it. The water will go to ground if any gets to them. Depending on area the 2x3 boards are often pretty affordable. Also might a be a good idea to paint on a water seal. It’ll create a good barrier to water damage on wood.

If you want to use your wheelbarrow to move the dirt into your raised beds, try using a truck or car ramp. Place against the garden bed and roll the wheelbarrow up and dump. It is much easier than 1 bucket at a time. If you are lucky to have a side by side ATV with a dump bed, that is even easier. Another thing I'd consider is mulching your bed once you've planted it. The mulch holds moisture and helps to cool the soil during the growing season. I'd also plan on putting in a micro sprinkler system that you can hook up to the hose for watering the bed during the summer.

I love your garden bed

You're little helper is so cute! Hard worker too.

I'm already envisioning myself making this. I love the design and I appreciate the sizes and measurements that you provided.

Made me smile seeing your daughter help with the project. I think I’ll have my granddaughter to help me too.

Great video. Planning to remove our 18'x32' above ground pool in the spring. Thank you for sharing your process

You have two great helpers there!

This was great! I love the simplicity and the water shield at the corners. I wonder if it would be easier to fill the soil in as you build it. You could build one rectangle at a time, install the internal supports and wheel barrow soil in as you go before closing it up and having to dump soil in over the top. Do you think this would work?

Nice tutorial! Thinking about making one with bricks on the bottom instead of lumber to provide a support base to the wood frame. Should also help with wood rot.

Great Design and perfect timing. I have a pile of barn strong that is about to find a new home.....Next off to the lumber yard with my credit card....Love your helper.

This is great! My husband and I are going to do something like this next summer. I am in Alaska and this refines our idea. Blessings

Like the design, have a similar idea for my raised bed for erbs and spices. Only difference id do is put cheap bricks on the bottom instead of the old boards to slow the decay even further

If you have a couple of pallets around, stack them next to your bed, put a board down as a ramp and you can use your wheelbarrow to fill your bed. Make sure to put a piece of carpet or mat down on your top board, so you don't damage it with the wheelbarrow while dumping the dirt in.

Wonderful! I even looked up metal roofing and I found out that it comes in many colors.

These are beautiful raised beds.

Nice design ! lotta good advice too! You could use Hemlock instead of the pressure-treated it last just about as long for something like this without all the nasty chemicals in the pressure treated I have a smaller raised bed that’s over 10 years old with the Hemlock only reason I’m tearing it apart is to build one like you guys are building.

😊Quick suggestion: If you make the top support wooden pieces a little wider you could use them as shelves to sit potted plants on or perhaps drill holes in them to either put potted plants in.

Fantastic video and thank you for sharing your family time with us. It was fun.

Awesome job man looks great

You could use plastic 2x4s made from recycled milk bottles for the bottom support. They work really well and won't ever rot.

I did a similar design except I have the room to make a continuous run, sort of like horseshoes laid side by side. I like the reinforcement you did, I might have to do a little reworking of mine.

I made a garden bed on top of concrete out of pressure treated lumber and tin. When I stepped back, and looked at the final shell; I realized, the dirt was going to push everything out. In my state of analysis paralysis...I found your video. I can't have my bottom bracing rotting out. So, I'm using 3/8 inch galvanized steel with rubber and galvanized washers with nuts both inside and out. Never would have come up with this fix without your video! In addition, I am switching out all of my screws for the roofing nails you suggested. Then covering all my corners in the 40mil roofing material. Brilliant! As well, I will add a top frame for extra structure. Thank you!! 🙏 Made you a video but can't upload it here.

using the vichathane membrane on the inside was a great idea

To stop any worry about sides bulging out use small diameter pvc pipe from side to side lower down in the bed. Feed threaded rod through and put a nut and washer on either side outside the bed.

A great job, and I love the cost savings I’ll get from using metal roofing materials. The wife has back problems and I have been looking for a solution for her so that she does not need to bend over as much for the typical raised bed.

Awesome Plan!

This is freaking brilliant!

To cut metal you can also use a circular saw and turn the blade around so the teeth are not cutting the material. It works really well too.

The best material for building raised beds is Eastern Red Cedar lumber. Treated lumber can leach chemicals into the soil. Also the sheet metal is galvanized using poisonous chemicals to make it and it does brake down over time leaching those chemicals into the soil and your plants. Kinta Sawmill in SE Oklahoma has some really nice planter boxes made from Eastern Red Cedar lumber they mill themselves that is natural and chemical free. Gardening is fun but be safe about it.

Thank you!

Wow! That looks great!

A galvanised threaded rod and some nuts could be used for the internal bracing, instead of timber. This would make sure the soil has very little contact with timber.

Make your beds wide enough that your wheelbarrow can fit between the sides and then leave one end open (or 2 in this case) to bring the dirt in. Add the logs to the side furthest from the opening, bring in the dirt and work your way to the opening. Attach the walls before fillingthe last part and finish filling by hand/bucket..

Thank you

great simple video. I was looking for something cost effective and doable and this is it. keep up the great work. I will send you a link to mine when I finish.

I like that your daughter watched you guys. She’s gonna know how to get things done when she’s older.

Great to see you incorporating hugelkultur techniques! That looks really nice too with the corrugated metal. I'm in the process of replacing all our wooden wall raised beds with rock walls since we have a few huge piles of stones around here. I figure that will last a long time.

Unique and wonderful the way you spoke while the video was in "fast mode". ...I hope other gardeners/vid-makers follow this idea. ...This makes the video so much more interesting and informative. ..Very nice.

This is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you for sharing!

Very nice. I'd have made the 10 foot sections 4 feet wide too. It would give you an extra 12 square feet of growing space without taking up any more ground space around the outside.

From a voice of experience, 2 x 3's are sufficient for this design. You can then use 2 x 4's or 2 x 6's for the top plate. The metal roofing material really adds a lot of strength and with today's lumber prices, every little bit helps. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Fantastic.

Thanks for video this gave me great insight