Video 1 Transcript
So I've made raised garden beds out of rough cut oak. The problem with that is it was hard to nail through or screw through like three inch thick oak. It was just hard for impact drivers to be that powerful and to find screws that are that long. And also, you know, that kind of wood, it can deteriorate pretty quickly if it stays moist and wet like a garden bed would. So one thing I did after that I really like doing is just buying a pre-made garden beds from a place called Midmo Metals. And for about $300, they make this, you know, four foot by 10 foot kind of garden bed that's, you know, six to 12 inches tall on the sides, made out of metal painted purlins. So steel purlins that are about 14 gauge to 12 gauge metal, 14 gauge, and it'd be a little bit more to get 12 gauge, but those things last probably 10, 20 years pretty easily. But those purlin garden beds probably would last 10, 20 years pretty easily as long as your soil is not very acidic. The garden beds are actually reinforced partway, you know, on the bottom side, they have some, you know, metal going across to kind of reinforce it from the lateral pressure of the soil pressing outwards. I wouldn't recommend using treated railroad ties because they leach out chemical because they have creosote and stuff that's not good for you. But plastic or composite railroad ties I think you totally could use for garden beds. I've also seen concrete blocking used to kind of make the ground kind of feel like a raised garden bed and that's another idea.