Raised Garden Box Plans
The raised beds from the garden build. Deep enough for root vegetables, tall enough to save your back, built to outlast a decade of Michigan winters.
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DIFFICULTY
Beginner
BUILD TIME
1 weekend
MATERIALS
About $85 in cedar
PLAN SET
18 pages
FINISHED SIZE
8 ft x 4 ft x 17" H, scalable
WHAT IS IN THE SET
- Dimensioned drawings, three standard sizes
- Cut list and cedar shopping list per size
- Corner post assembly detail
- Soil volume table per size
- Ground prep and leveling guide
TOOLS YOU NEED
FROM THE BUILDER
These are the beds behind the fence in the garden videos. Cedar sides, simple corner posts, no fancy joinery, and they have shrugged off frost heave and soaked soil without a creak.
The drawings scale. Build the full 8 by 4, cut it down to a 4 by 4 for a patio, or stretch a row of them along a fence line. Same corners, same cut logic.
GOOD QUESTIONS
Cedar or pressure treated?
The plans are drawn for cedar because it is food safe and lasts. There is a note on using ground contact pressure treated for the base frame if budget is tight.
