Raised Bed Garden DIY - Trex
Building your own raised garden beds is quite simple using TREX, cedar wood, and some basic tools. This website will show you how we built three sturdy garden beds that were 4ft by 8ft by 16 inches deep out of Trex and then added and automatic irrigation system out of PVC pipe
Raised Garden Bed - Materials List
We made our garden beds 4ft by 8ft to minimize wasted materials. The Trex we used came in 8ft lengths so we used a combination of full length peices and pieces cut in half. Here's the material list for a single garden box.
- 9 - Trex boards 8'
- 1 - Cedar post (4" x 4" x 8')
- 1 - Cedar board (1" x 3" x 8')
- 60 - Trex screws
- Garden Soil (1.5 cubic yards)
Cost for Trex raised garden bed at Lowes (Trex 9*$20, cedar post $24, Cedar board $5, screws $9) came to $218. There is also the cost of garden soil which we purchased in bulk from a local nursery for $50 or so. These beds are solid and will be around for many years to come.
Building Raised Garden Beds out of Trex
First cut Trex boards in half for the 4ft sides and cut 8ft 4x4 post into six 16" lengths.
Recess the posts an inch or so below the top surface so that when garden bed is filled with dirt they aren't visible.
Here the first garden bed screwed together. 8ft lengths of Trex will bow a fair bit so we found installing a couple boards across the center keeps everything straight once the soil is added in. This isn't shown in the picture above. For irrigation we tied into our sprinkler lines and added a controller/timer for just the garden.
Once the garden beds are put together its important to level them up.
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