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How To Build A Raised Garden Bed – Cheap
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Today’s feature tip is from Green Options with instructions on how to build a raised garden bed using old doors! Weekly DIY: Planter Box:
You can easily build a low-tech box like this for your garden for very little money and with very little construction experience. These raised planter boxes can be as large or as small as you can find doors for. It keeps our dog out and I don’t have to kneel to tend to the plants in the box, plus we kept the doors out of the landfill. You could also use this for a compost bin, although you would have to use doors with vented slats, like our long doors, to maintain air flow.
Raised beds are a perfect solution for those with small yards & pets or physical ailments that make gardening difficult. I love the idea of using no longer needed household items to build this, very frugal and earth friendly at the same time 
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another idea along these lines, using a file cabinet or lateral file. Take out the drawers, spray paint the exterior if needed; flip the drawerless unit so the empty openings face up; drill some drainage holes into the “floor”; (if needed, attach walls inside for each opening to hold the soil in place (this would be the most “labor intensive” part)), and then fill with soil, plants/flowers/vegs and enjoy. Result: a raised planter. AND, you could use the drawers themselves as portable raised bed planters (seal up any potential leak areas with caulk), drill a drainage hole. Shop the thrift stores.