Cheap & Efficient Garden Boxes
It's time to start thinking of garden projects! A raised garden bed is a great one since it brings the planting up (you don’t have to sit on the ground), you can control the quality of the soil, and it also looks really nice and can work as a divider in your garden.
For this project, we're going to go cheap and basic and resaw some 2x4s. I'm going to be using pressure treated wood which I will paint because it's what I had on hand, however you could just as easily use framing lumber.
In terms of buying wood, you need 58 ft of 1x4s which you can get from 29 ft of 2x4s if you resaw.
You also need 12 ft of 4x4 for the legs.
The finished planter measures 48 inches long by about 24 inches.
We have four legs, three boards on each side, two cleats and slats fen slats for the bottom.
Everything is connected with screws. The long sides wraps around the outside of the legs, the short sides on the inside.
Cutlist:
#6 long sides out of 1x4: 3.5 x 48 inches
#6 short sides out of 1x4s: 3.5 x 23.5 inches
#4 legs out of 4x4s: 3.5 x 30 inches
#2 cleats: 1.5 x 1.5 - 38 inches long
#10 slats out of 1x4s: 3.5 x 23.5 inches
Method:
To start with, resaw the 2x4s if you’re working with that. Cut up all the pieces. Also, add a chamfer on all the edges on the legs for a nice look. I did a 33.9 degree angle about 5/8 inch from the top.
To connect the pieces together we’re going to be using screws.
The long sides go on the outside of the legs and the short sides on the inside. The cleat attaches to the bottom of the last rails and the slats rest upon those.
For a more in depth look as to how everything is connected, make sure to watch the video!