Raised Garden With Fence Boards
When you're building a planter box for outdoor use, it's a good idea to use materials that you know will withstand the weather.
Raised garden with fence boards. The fence boards are 5/8” thick…however, since our beds are pretty tall and the wood is pretty thin it has started bowing a tad. Cost to build raised garden boxes (per box): Determine the length of fence you’ll need for each side.
How much does it cost to build a cedar raised garden bed. 1 cedar fence board $4.49; This is the design we came up with to use readily available cedar lumber and other supplies.
Cedar raised beds make gardening easier, more accessible, and more efficient. Build attractive raised beds in the size you need; How to build a planter box from fence boards.
Then time to build more protected and fenced raised garden beds like these. They have been around for many years used in a wide variety of settings and garden designs. Total cost $68.45 price per raised bed $17.12
The posts cost around $2 each, making each cedar raised bed cost less than $15 total. How to build a garden fence. 24 cedar picket fence boards $1.94 x 24 = $46.56 6 pine fir boards $2.07 x 6 = $12.42 wood screws $9.47.
You can see my process of building these raised beds from that old garden fence here. I plan on adding a 3rd “board” and hoping that will make them too high for the. But a cedar raised bed can cost hundreds of dollars.