Building The Raised Plant Beds For Chrissy
Chrissy was looking into buying a raised plant bed on the internet for her upcoming vegetable garden. They were way too expensive, and I knew that I could build one myself. How hard could it possibly be? It probably wouldn’t cost much, either. I could buy the parts cheaply and slap it together in an hour. I was partially right.
I bought the cedar and supplies at Menards. They were nice enough to cut the wood for me, so I didn’t have to fire up the saw at all. I bought four six-foot 2×6 planks and four eight-foot 2×6 planks, each cut in half. I also got two six-foot 4×4 cedar posts, each cut into 15-inch lengths. All told, it ran about $160 since cedar is expensive. It could have been cheaper if I had built a single four-foot by eight-foot box, but I think that having two will be better.
Chrissy treated each piece of wood with Thompson’s water sealer while I was driving home from work the following day. The next weekend, I spent a rainy afternoon in the garage, fastening the wood together. I used decking screws, two on each end, to attach the 2×6 planks to the 4×4 posts. Drilling pilot holes turned out to be tricky, since cedar eats drill bits. I broke four that day. The end result was nice though: two three-foot by four-foot plant beds, ready to be put in the back yard.
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