Raised Planter Boxes

Hey Everyone!

With spring in full swing, I need to get my garden ready for this years veggies. I decided to move the entire garden from one side of the yard, to closer to the house for easy watering. This year, I decided to go small because I haven't been having too much luck with maintaining too many veggies.

With the price of wood, I had to make a choice on how I wanted to build this thing. It was going in a place where it would be visible for everyone to see. So I wanted to make it pretty but still functional. My first choice was to make this out of 1x6's but have you seen the prices?! Holy G! So I decided to build everything out of cedar picket fences which cost less than $4 a picket. Still higher than before, but better than paying $10 a board. For the legs, I was going to use 2x4s, but again the cost. So I decided to purchase 1x4s and cut them down to 1x2s & 1x1s so I can make sturdy L shaped legs.

So I'm not going to tell you this was an easy build because of all the boards I ended up cutting, but if you were to buy 1x2s, 1x1s and the cedar pickets, you would spend a small fortune on planter boxes. but, really, if you didn't have to do all the cutting, this is really a simple design and build.

For 1 5ft planter box, I used 5 (6) pickets and 2 1x4's which cost me about $35, which is not bad. I ended up building 3 boxes total of different sizes.

So, with that said, please enjoy this video. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them. Thank you again for being here, please don't forget to hit that Like button, Share this video and PLEASE hit that subscribe button! Happy Building!