MUST KNOW TIPS before Buying a Raised Metal Garden Bed 

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Great video. I love my Vegegas. I bought them after watching your review. I’ve also added 50+ native plants plus 4 native trees. I made a list of all the native plants and visited the native nurseries you suggested. I also want to add Bee Happy Native Nursery in Zephyrhills. They are a new nursery and only open on Fridays and Saturdays. Thanks for all your information and guidance. ❤💚

So glad I saw this video. My wooden 4x4 and 4x8 beds are rotten. Looked at Vegega but they didn’t have a configuration to fit my watering grids ( and they were expensive I might add). So you did give me good tips to help with my final decision. Tks much

thank you! almost perfect timing, i ordered my first set of metal garden beds yesterday!

Wow! What a great transformation!! Love how you 2 figured out how to do that without removing everything first.

I bought five of these beds after seeing your original video. Loving them so far. Thanks for the videos!

Hi! In case you were wondering: you're awesome! Thank you for sharing so much great local information. :D I'm completely new to this whole gardening in Florida experience, but I'm 100% here for it! (and low cost / free hacks) Keep up the good work. You're a stellar human being from what I can tell. Cheers!

I'm so glad I came across your video! I was going to buy the ones that rotted... And I live in the UK so lots of rain would make it go like this even faster... Thank you for saving me the hassle :)

This was very helpful. Thank you!

As always great information. Thank you. ❤

Fun! I am going to remake my pollination garden into a cottage garden style as well.

Great information! I might need to buy raised garden beds soon and this is very helpful. My husband and I are moving and I am looking at different options for new garden 😀

Fellow Floridian here! I was wanting some metal beds to trellis across in my front yard. Make it look kinda romantic ya know? Maybe put a bench in the middle. Thanks for all the info! I am trying to turn my trashed backyard into a food forest if you want to check it out. ❤❤

Good morning Ben and Jacqueline. Good to see you today. The dimensions of the new beds were pretty close to old ones. Nice job. Could have been much harder. Have a great day and weekend.

What do you use for shade or keeping the garden beds cool in the hot summer. I live in Tampa, very hot here obviously.

The beds look great! I’ve been comparing beds but am holding off till I know I can grow ANYTHING! Veggie and flower seeds still stunted.

This is my second season with similar, cheap amazon beds. I'm not looking forward to having to replace them down the road. I wish I knew they rust so badly before I installed 34 of them! OMG

"Some northerner is watching this" Yes. Yes I did laugh...lol I love the depth of this video. I'm in the market to getting these going. I most definitely do not want to do to the Amazons...

I went with concrete block beds. Bad luck with metal being so close to the ocean. Home Depot did have them for a good price at $1.57 a block. Just jumped up 60 cents. Hopefully they come down during different season.

I live really close to you. Anyway, I spray painted my raised beds, so much nicer to have vibrant colors and yuck metal. Plus it keeps them cooler to the touch.

What is under the bed you replace and what is under the new beds

I could certainly be wrong, but the rounded ends ( stock tank look )ones are structurally superior to the ones with 90 degree corners.

I always wondered how hot these would get in the sun in Florida summers

hey im planning to move to sebring florida to retire. my question is can we grow mangoes there? does it rain there enough? thank you

Good morning!

How safe do you feel olle garden raised beds are?

what about applying anti-rust paint to the metal ?

You look like a kid sitting in your driveway building the bed. 😊

Hi 👋 I'm leaving my comment on this video just because it's your newest and I wasn't sure if you check old videos for comments... I'm really hoping you can help me... I know you know a lot about Firebush... I just went out to my greenhouse where I have been keeping several of my potted plants that I purchased about a month ago, planning to plant them as soon as the super cold weather is over... I had bought 2 firebush, and 1 Calusa Firebush. All have been Looking super healthy from the time I bought them And doing great. But all of a sudden, ALL 3 of them have dropped TONS of leaves!! Each one is surrounded by leaves on the ground everywhere😫 I just about fell over! They were perfect yesterday with no leaves on the ground. What happened!??? I inspected the leaves and they all look healthy from what I can see. I have several other different types of plants in there and it's only the three firebush that this has happened to. Right now it is dark and raining so I will take a closer look tomorrow, but do you have any idea what this could be? I am in Northwest Bradenton Florida and we have had pretty chilly nights here lately and the past two days a lot of rain. They are in the part of my Greenhouse that has a screen over top so they still do get the rain. The temperature has been in the low 50s but I figured that should be fine and even if weather had something to do with it I would think that the leaves would show some signs of some kind? They aren't yellowed or any spots or anything. They just all look like super healthy leaves that have just fallen off. They do get plenty of Sun in there and I have been tending to them every day. I'm so confused and sad😔 they were so beautiful.

I bought 5 of the BCP beds on Amazon that you recommended previously and they are not even a year old and are rusting at the seams and around the screws. Looking for ways to support them before they crumble. Suggestions welcomed.

Where can I find the exact same one that you have? The link takes me to a different kind.

But those do look Good 👍

You could have just put 4x4s in the corners and screw the wall of the old beds to them. There was enough life left in them...

I bought one before watching this. Says it's galvanized..we'll see

ONCE U BUY THE METAL BEDS, COAT BOTH SIDES WITH TWO COATINGS OF VASELINE.

The whole idea of using metal for raised beds is completely dumb. They just get too hot and the plants get to think their growing period is over, and so the plants quickly bolt. Wood is much better as a raised bed frame, even though it eventually rots. Wood is so much better for temperature control, and for moisture retention. With wood, you can also control Spring and Autumn (Fall) temperatures with covering frames.

Those beds are no good they heat up like ovens they are sharp and most people on U tub promoting them are paid to do so