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1891 Avenues Cottage, diy, my home, outdoor projects, spring, spring project, summer, summer projects · April 9, 2020

How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box

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How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!

How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box

How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!

One of my favorite things is warm weather and being outside planting flowers and working on my garden! Over the years I’ve planted different gardens. Many years ago we planted two huge square foot garden boxes. And a couple years ago I turned a side area into a garden with a vinyl garden box. Now that we are in our forever home, I knew I wanted to make a garden here too!

Why Plant a Planter Box Instead of a In-Ground Garden?

How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!

There are a few reasons I love a planter box versus just planting veggies in the ground.

  • The first is that creating a raised garden is easier to garden. Having the beds raised makes it easier to get to the plants.
  • Line the box with weed barrier so the beds stay cleaner without weeds.
  • One more reason I prefer garden boxes is that it’s an easy way to garden in any size yard.

Planter Boxes Make Gardening Easy No Matter What Size Yard

Since our new home is right downtown, our yard is quite small. Even though we have a smaller yard, I knew we could still have a garden. I love the 100+ year old trees in our new home, but it created a tricky situation with deciding where to put our garden. The front yard gets the most light so it made more sense to make a garden in the front yard.

DIY Planter Box Video

You Can Plant a Garden in the Front Yard

We decided to put our planter box in the front yard which gets the most sun. We created a simple planter box which complements our home and looks great in the front yard.

Planter Boxes Make Wonderful Square Foot Gardens

how to make a square foot garden
This is the square foot garden we built a few years ago

Planter boxes they work great with square foot gardens. You can optimize the output of product you can grow by using the square foot gardening technique.

What is a Square Foot Garden?

Square foot garden plan.
square foot garden layout @DIY Idea Center

The phrase “square foot gardening” was popularized by Mel Bartholomew in a 1981 Rodale Press book and subsequent PBS television series. Bartholomew, a retired engineer, devised a raised 4 by 4 feet (1.2 m × 1.2 m) square beds with a grid. The 4 by 4 square beds was then divided into sixteen one-foot squares, the grid.

(via Wickipedia)

Planter Boxes Make Growing Plants Vertically Easier

happy gardening life on instagram
@HappyGardeningLife on Instagram

To make the most of your space, build trellis and/or pergolas to go on top of your garden, allowing plants to grow up vertically and maximizing your planter box space.

Decide How Big and How Many Boxes You Want to Create

Raised Planter Garden Boxes at other Earth News
Rasied planter boxes @ Mother Earth News

We decided to start off with one pretty large planter box for our yard. Our box is 4-feet wide by 6-feet long. If we were using the square foot method, that would mean that we have 24 boxes to plant in.

Don’t Make the Width of Your Planter Box Too Wide

How to make a vinyl garden box in one morning without big tools. Have your hardware store make the big cuts and all you do is put it together. You just need a drill.

I recommend 4 feet as the longest width you would want to create. The reason is that you need to be able to reach in and tend to the plants. A box that is too wide you won’t be able to reach your plants. You don’t want to have to climb on top of the planter box. Make a No-Maintenance Vinyl Garden Box.

Create Any Length of Planter Box

Make your planter box(es) as long as makes sense for your yard. I love the idea of running some long planter boxes against your fence.

Planter Box Designs

Raised planter garden from Wayfair
Enclosed Planter Garden from Wayfair
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Raised Garden Build
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Garden Box with Benches @Bonnie
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Raised Garden Beds @ One Kind Design
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
How to make garden beds with hinged covers @ Instructables
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Garden Boxes with Trellis @ Majmade on Instagram
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Painted garden boxes @ Undecorated Home on Instagram
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
Border Raised Planters @UrbanOrganicGardner on twitter
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
@dreamywhitelifestyle on Instagram
How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!
kitchen garden via Pinterest (not sure who to credit as the original source)

What Materials Do I Use to Make Planter Boxes?

There are several different materials that work best to created raised planter boxes.

  • Treated Lumber
  • Redwood Lumber
  • Vinyl

The Hardware Store Will Cut Your Wood

materials needed to make DIY raised garden planter boxes.

If you choose redwood to create the outside of your planter box, your lumber store will cut the wood to the lengths you need. That’s what we did. Take note that if you go with vinyl or pre-treated lumber you will have to cut those yourself.

How to Make a Simple Garden Planter Box. Grow your own veggies this year with a simple garden box. You can use the box for years to come for healthy homegrown vegetables!

Materials Needed to Create a Raised Garden Planter Box

  • Lumber (or vinyl) 8 boards (4 for length, 4 for height)
  • Wood Screws
  • Weed barrier (estimate the square feet of your box, we tripled our fabric)
  • Square stakes
  • Dirt (we mixed half garden soil and half garden prep mixture)
  • Any materials for trellis or pergola

Steps to Make a Raised Planter Box

  • Cut boards to size
  • Screw wood screws in sides of boards, connecting sides. Make the lower box first.
  • Lay the box on the ground and measure out the weed barrier.
  • Lay the first box on top of the weed barrier.
  • Add Stakes on four corners. Put a hole in the weed barrier where the stakes were going so that they could go directly into the ground.
  • Build second box by screwing wood screws into four boards as you did with the first box.
  • Lay the second box on top of the first.
  • Screw wood screws through the stakes into the outside of the second box to secure the first and second boxes together.
  • Fill the box with dirt, estimate the square footage of dirt you need.
  • Plant your garden!

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DIY Stamped Garden Markers

stamped garden markers out of old silverware

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What do you think?? Would you plant a raised planter garden?

Pin How to Make a Raised Planter Box

how to build raised planter garden boxes

Pin this idea to make later so you can find it!

xoxo

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Comments

  1. gabriele says

    April 19, 2020 at 1:27 PM

    that is a very good idea is an interesting way to take care of a gardens!
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  2. Scarlet says

    April 13, 2020 at 3:00 PM

    Thanks for the detailed instructions. I want to try to make one for my mom to garden in at her new house!

    • Jen says

      April 13, 2020 at 7:57 PM

      I love that! You should do it!

      xoxo

  3. kaitlyn says

    April 9, 2020 at 9:08 PM

    Love this post! We’re trying our first hand at DIY raised beds this year. We recently transferred our plants outside to a horse trough that we’re using as a “raised bed”. I’m excited for our veggies to be ready for harvest!

    Kaitlyn @ Oh, the Places We’ll Go!

    • Jen says

      April 9, 2020 at 9:25 PM

      I am so excited for you! It’s so fun watching things grow!

      xoxo

Hi! I'm Jen Hadfield. I'm a mom of 5 restoring an 1891 home in the heart of Salt Lake City. I love being creative and sharing simple ideas to make your life easier and more beautiful!

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