By Mike Thayer
I love to garden and I’ve got a new place to create one this season having moved from an apartment to a house. I inherited an established yard and there are plenty of existing plantings – evergreens, ornamental grasses, ivy – along the perimeter of the yard, but the middle of the back yard is a blank canvas, ample room to get creative in developing a vegetable garden, with space to put in some flower beds to boot.
Enter a raised bed garden, no digging required and self watering!
Why break ground, till, clear grass and work to amend the soil when I can put together a couple raised bed gardens instead? Besides, harvesting veggies and cutting flowers from a raised garden is MUCH easier on the knees and I love the concept of adding a self watering feature to the raised beds!
Here’s the materials list:
- Six 12′ 2x6s
- Three 12′ deck boards
- Two 10′ 2x4s
- One 8′ 2×4
- Four 8′ 2x2s
- 24′ of 4″ diameter perforated drain pipe with sleeve
- Pond liner
- Exterior screws
- Raised bed planter mix
- 1/2′ vinyl tubing for drainage
- 1-1/2″ CPVC (fill tube)
This project should take me two, maybe three days to assemble, position and plant the raised beds. A couple of nice benefits to having the raised beds will be the ability to easily cover the bed with an old fitted sheet if there is a frost warning in the forecast and that self watering feature – watering the roots of the plants which cuts down on diseases like blight and mildew.
Stay tuned, cost breakdown and project pics coming soon!
I love the cedar and corrugated metal look
Related: What I built for my apartment patio a few years back
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Building a self watering raised planter bed – Bachelor on the Cheap
By Mike Thayer
I love to garden and I’ve got a new place to create one this season having moved from an apartment to a house. I inherited an established yard and there are plenty of existing plantings – evergreens, ornamental grasses, ivy – along the perimeter of the yard, but the middle of the back yard is a blank canvas, ample room to get creative in developing a vegetable garden, with space to put in some flower beds to boot.
Enter a raised bed garden, no digging required and self watering!
Why break ground, till, clear grass and work to amend the soil when I can put together a couple raised bed gardens instead? Besides, harvesting veggies and cutting flowers from a raised garden is MUCH easier on the knees and I love the concept of adding a self watering feature to the raised beds!
Here’s the materials list:
This project should take me two, maybe three days to assemble, position and plant the raised beds. A couple of nice benefits to having the raised beds will be the ability to easily cover the bed with an old fitted sheet if there is a frost warning in the forecast and that self watering feature – watering the roots of the plants which cuts down on diseases like blight and mildew.
Stay tuned, cost breakdown and project pics coming soon!
I love the cedar and corrugated metal look
Related: What I built for my apartment patio a few years back
$pend Wisely My Friends…
Enjoy this post?
If you appreciate the article you just read and want to support more great content on BachelorontheCheap.com, you can help keep this site going with a one-time or a monthly donation. Thank you so much for your support! ~ Mike