Grit (Digital)

Grit (Digital)

1 Issue, November - December 2016

Easy DIY Raised Garden Beds and a Homemade Fence Post Tool

from our friends at FARM SHOW ®
Easy DIY Raised Garden Beds and a Homemade Fence Post Tool
‘Half-Barrel’ Raised Garden Beds “I wanted to show your readers the raised garden beds my wife, Debbie, and I recently made out of some treated lumber and 55-gallon plastic barrels,” says Terry Benoit, Orange, Texas. “We’ve used raised garden beds for years to grow watermelons, squash, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, corn and strawberries. But this year, we came up with a new approach using treated lumber and 55-gallon plastic barrels. I used three of the barrels to build six raised garden beds. They’re high enough that we don’t have to bend over to plant or pick vegetables. “I cut the barrels in half, drilled 1⁄2-inch holes in the bottom spaced 3 inches apart for drainage, and added topsoil. Then I used treated wood to make a 4-legged structure for each half barrel. The barrels…
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