Everyone involved in planting should have a garden box, right? It is super easy to make and it has many benefits that make it easy for you to grow as many flowers, veggies, and other plants as you want.
DIY Garden boxes come in various sizes, this depends on the size of your soil area, the amount of plant you are growing, and the space available behind your planting area. Here are a few ways you can make a DIY garden box effortlessly, let’s begin!
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1. DIY Garden Box
This video guide is going to show you how to make a raised bed garden box, it’s cheap and super easy to build from scratch. The first step is to map out the area that will be separated from the garden box. After that, begin to determine your dimensions, following the ones from this video guide. The rest of the steps are pretty easy to follow.
2. How To Build A Raised Garden Bed
The creator of this video guide made this raised garden bed for just less than $15, which makes it inexpensive. The woodworking process is easy as well, and the steps are simple to understand and follow. All you need are the few basic woodworking tools that the creator used that are on the description link below.
3. DIY Garden Elevated Bed
This is an elevated garden bed that you can make if you don’t have a full garden like most people. The elevated garden bed is raised with legs that are over 25 inches high. This project took about 2 hours to finish and it’s quite easy.
4. DIY Garden Box
Here are a few supplies you will need to make a raised garden box to aid your backyard gardening. You need some spruce wood, a garden lamp, construction lag screws, grass block pavers, and a few other important materials. The making process is pretty simple.
5. DIY Garden Box
For this project the things you will need are some wood screws, nails, wood saw, hook screws, garbage bag, wooden pallet plank, and lots more. The creator used the basic woodworking tools, so it’s nothing special.
6. DIY Redwood Garden Box
This is one of the most sturdy and balanced redwood garden boxes, it’s a raised garden box and it’s also large, so with this garden box idea, you can make a large garden box and that might work for you if you need something as large as this.
7. DIY Recycled Garden Box
This garden box is easy to make, cheap and large. The creator used recycled wood to make the frame, and it’s sturdy so far, so instead of buying pieces of wood, you can use any spare old wood and build a great garden box.
8. DIY Easy Garden Boxes
This might be the simplest garden box idea on my list yet, it’s simple and straightforward, perfect for a beginner. It’s also the perfect garden box for someone looking to build from start to finish in less than an hour. It takes about 45 minutes for this garden box project.
9. How To Build Raised Garden Beds
So it’s true, you can build a solid raised garden bed without any tools, the creator used 16 tan planter wall blocks for the edges of the wood boards, this will create 2 garden beds of 4x8, and 12 inches tall. This is also a budget-friendly project.
10. DIY Garden Box
The creator of this video guide used a hack instead of wood to make the garden bed safer and stronger. The raised garden box also costs $50 and that’s quite inexpensive if you ask me? Compared to if you got someone to fix it up for you.
11. DIY Raised Flower Bed
So, this raised garden bed is meant for mostly flowers, and veggies and the creator went through the making process with ease. The creator also made 2 box frames in one, this ensures that you don’t have to make separate garden boxes and waste materials.
12. DIY Raised Garden Beds
This is the coolest and fastest way to make a raised garden bed without any tools at all, all you need are planter blocks and some wood boards. Once you have the necessary items ready, the next thing to do is to assemble them to form your garden bed. In less than 30 minutes you should be done with this project.
13. DIY Garden Boxes
This is a sturdy wood garden box. You can make more than if you have the resources and time to do so. You will be using ordinary 2x6, and 2x4 lumber wood boards. These garden boxes are beautiful, super strong, and pretty easy to make. It’s also pretty high and it can keep away crawling pests like snails and more.
14. How To Make A Garden Box
For this project, you’ll need some 8ft, and 10ft long cedar decking boards, for the walls, and the top lids of the box. The cost for one of these boxes is just $90, so you can make as much as you want. This guide shows how it was made step-by-step with images to aid understanding, which is better than just mere write-ups.
15. DIY Garden Box
This is an amazing raised garden box idea that will cost you only $100, it’s pretty easy to make if you follow the instructions correctly, and it takes about 3 hours to finish the entire making process for just one garden box, and you don’t need an expert skill woodworking level to perform this task.
16. DIY Raised Garden Planter Box
This raised garden planter box is just like a center table, about 3 feet tall, 3ft by 1.5 ft wide, and 18 inches deep. You can plant whatever you want on this planter box, but the creator decided to plant herbs and other plants for cooking recipes, that sounds like a good idea that you can adapt to as well.
17. DIY Inexpensive Garden Box
In this video guide, you will be making a garden box that is inexpensive, super easy, and yet super sturdy. The creator used some treated lumber wood boards, some deck screws, and a few other basic woodworking tools.
18. How To Build A Raised Bed In 1 Hour
This is a simple DIY video guide that will teach you how to build a sturdy raised garden bed in under an hour, for just $100. You will need wood, boxes of screws and nails, a few sheets of corrugated metal, and lots more.
19. How To Build A Raised Garden Bed
This video guide started with the creator measuring the space available for the garden box, and she took that same measurement and started cutting out the wood to form the raised garden box frame. If you don’t understand the video instructions completely you can check the description to access a link that will take you to a write-up guide that might make things easier for you to understand.
20. DIY Garden Box
This is a pretty easy garden box to make with just nine 2x4x8 wood boards. The creator made this garden box in just a few hours, and it yielded an amazing sturdy garden box frame. This is a fun garden box to make with family and friends.
21. DIY Raised Garden Box
This raised garden box is just like the previous one that looked like a table. It’s tall and quite small in width. There is room for improvement with this guide, so you can increase the width and make it larger if you wish.
22. DIY Garden Box Construction
Here is another amazing garden box that is just perfect for all occasions. If you choose to shelter your herbs, flowers, and other plants from the weather, then you can install a tarpaulin at the top to cover the box. This garden box is super sturdy, see the guide to learn more about the top wooden frame.
23. DIY Garden Box
This is an amazing U-shaped 8 feet by 9 feet frame, it took only 1 day to build and it requires no expert woodworking level. The creator made a sketch of how the frame will look like, this is the first step before procuring the materials you need for this project.
24. DIY Gardening Box
This is a unique garden box, but it’s quite small, and perfect for a small yard. The creator made this garden box with 4 pallet boards, general-purpose screws, and lots more. The creator started the construction from the base, then continued to the next step till he was done.
25. DIY Cedar Garden Box
This cedar garden box is pretty easy to make and it costs only $5. The making process is simple and fun. The creator used cedar fence slats and it will fit in perfectly. This garden box idea might be the cheapest on this list but it requires a lot of expert woodworking tools.
26. DIY High Raised Garden Box
This is a high raised garden box, it doesn’t stand on legs, the entire body frame was made high from scratch. The making process is fast and inexpensive. The creator of this guide had made a lot of garden boxes before, but this particular one is the smallest in width, but pretty deep.
27. How To Build A Raised Garden Bed
The creator of this amazing video guide did not have a lot of tools for the woodworking process and assembling the wood pieces, so she settled for some planter blocks. No tools required, just a simple assemblage
28. DIY Garden Box With Corrugated Steel
If you are looking for something durable and unique, you should try making a garden box with corrugated steel on the sides, and wood at the edges. The making process seen in the video is super easy and simple to follow. The two materials blended so well to form a super strong garden box.
29. DIY Raised Bed Wicking Garden
His is one of the best garden boxes made, it aids less evaporation when watering the plants, it’s quite deep, this means that the plant’s roots will go deeper into the soil. You will need a corrugated drainage pipe, PVC pipes, galvanized screws, and a few more essential tools, and materials.
30. How To Make Your Own Garden Boxes
This garden box is pretty large, the perfect garden box if you have a large backyard for gardening. The first step for this guide is to draw a quick sketch of how your garden looks, and then also the place where you want the boxes to be. If you give this guide a try you will be amazed at how easy it is to make this spacious garden box from scratch.
Conclusion
The benefits of these garden boxes are amazing, numerous, and worth every penny and time spent to make this, every garden box has its unique purpose and value, even the super cheap ones may even be more sturdy than the expensive ones. I’m sure you will find the perfect garden box that will suit your needs. Thanks for stopping by as always, have a nice gardening time.
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