Wooden Garden Boxes: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Wood Species for Raised Bed Planters
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- In this video, I walk you through the top wood species to consider when building your own raised bed planter boxes. From the durability of cedar to the affordability of pine, we'll cover the pros and cons of each wood type, so you can make an informed decision on which wood species is right for your garden. We'll also share tips on maintaining and treating your wooden planter boxes to ensure they last for many growing seasons to come. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this guide will help you choose the perfect wood species for your raised bed planter boxes.
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Hey thanks for the heads up 👍. Great video and informative. Thanks for the upbeat comments and helpful advice. And for not droning on.
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What do you think about surface torching the wood before it is sealed?
I used 1"x6" fence pickets. Three years on, they look fine. Two considerations: I screwed the pickets to 2x3 stakes every two feet. I also filled the beds with my attempt at "Mel's Mix for raised beds", which is a light, well draining, rich growing media. Fence pickets would not be suitable for 100% top soil or other heavy-heavy soils.
Also, if you screw the bed rails from the outside to inner stakes, then should one ever warp, bow, break or rot, you can just unscrew it and replace it "in place" -- your dirt won't typically "spill" out unless it's really sandy and dry.
Great tips, thank you!
Do you stain the wood or clear coat to protect it?
Good discussion: like your comment regarding walnut. Like supporting a local sawyer or a wood repurposing agent. Rail road ties and old telephone poles are now coated with other chemicals. They still release toxic stuff to the earth. Good video. The chemicals used are mostly just as you said. Guess the new copper treatment is copper sulfate (guessing from the name you rad off.). No planning on using wood at all.
Thanks for your comment!
I think that the ultimate wood for raised beds would be IPE (Brazilian Walnut). I re-decked my once cedar decking with it. It is not cheap. However, I dug up a piece of it that must’ve somehow gotten buried when I re-decked back in 2009. It had been about 12 years and after I washed it off, other than a slight dirt stain, the IPE looked like I had just bought it. Not that it matters for a raised bed, but IPE has a fire rating equivalent to concrete.
Ipe would be amazing. The only problem is that it costs a fortune.
What about Osage Orange ? They use it as fence posts and they are still there half a century later. It's hard to come by commercially, but you might be able to get some from a local sawyer, though, you might have to pay for a new blade for him mill as the stuff is insanely hard. I had a friend you used to cut it, and winter cut material would actually throw sparks off his carbide teeth. Lots of silica in it.
Ty excellent discreption of types of wood, I give you 10 sir. To save your mineral or can paints, instead of opening up your can, make a hole in can & put a golf tee, will save you money. Just saying.
Great tip, thanks!
Non heart wood also called sapwood should be avoided in redwood also.
Great point, thank you!
I wonder why ppl can't just stick plants in the dirt idk the way we did when I was a kid. Why are raised beds even a thing? Secondly if I were to build one, I would just buy pressure treated pine from big box. I wouldn't expect to be using a raised box for 30 yrs.
This question seems to always come up when raised beds are mentioned. Let me give you a reason why I can't "just plant in the dirt". Most subdivisions in my area of TN are basically scraped down to bedrock, then covered with 3-6" of construction soil (heavy red clay and gravel). After the house is built they may come back in and drop 2-3" of "topsoil" which is usually sourced from river beds and surrounding soil, which ends up being more clay with smaller rocks than the "construction" soil. Toss some grass seed out and hope it grows.
So, when I was starting to plan out my garden I went as far back in the yard away from where the house is built and can only get maybe 6"-8"down, and that is using a rock bar, mattock, and shovel. Let's just say it was a lot of work for 4 4x10' beds. Rented a tiller from HD and it just bounced around, unable to break anything up that I hadn't already broken up by hand. So I had to build up raised beds 12" above the soil to get around 18" of "usable" dirt to plant in, and of course had to bring in my own soil to fill them.
@brettblackwell2628 Not sounding privileged but growing up we lived on property we owned since the 1800s. The ground was the same as it had been for hundreds of years. Another reason I hate subdivisions.
@@ricksanford6485 I get that. It is one of the reasons why everyone needs to try to think about other people's environments. Other reasons are age/health (bad backs/knees which limit bending/kneeling), aesthetics (your opinion of how to decorate a room may be completely different than mine, same for a garden), drainage issues (the only place for a garden may be a natural water run off area and require bringing in multiple truckloads of filler dirt to raise it enough, or someone could build a few raised beds up off the ground), and more.
I grew up with lots of land in Oklahoma and we grew in the ground.. but it also took a lot of work. The soil was red clay and sandstone and we had to disc/till it every spring. Beans, corn, okra did well, other things not so much. Unfortunately this was long before a lot of the information on land management came out and learning from my grandfather means we knew nothing about amendments or soil rejuvenation. You planted the same crop until it stopped producing and then maybe switched to something else or let the field go for several years. Unfortunately there are fields on that property that even 20 years later are practically infertile from the monocrop processes he used.