How To Build A Deck Garden Box
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How to build a deck garden box. There are many more container vegetable garden ideas available on the university of maryland extension. If you live in a condo or apartment or sun exposure around your house is limited a container or raised vegetable garden on your deck is the answer. If you plan to paint the box however a more economical alternative would be to build it with pressure treated wood. Vegetable garden boxes also known as raised garden beds are a great feature to install in your garden.
In fact a portion of a roof window box or outdoor stairway or stoop are all excellent options for vegetable garden containers provided they will receive at least six hours of full sun a day. Total cost 50 56 box. They look neat and tidy drain well and make it easy to tend your plants. Landscape fabric 25 for 100 we used maybe 15 so 3 75.
The first step of the project is to build the frame of the deck box. An off the deck salad garden planter like this can be the smartest addition to your deck vegetable garden. As you can easily notice in the plans we recommend you to build the legs from 2 2 lumber and the frame out of 1 4 slats. 1 cedar fence board 4 49.
Allow the treated lumber to dry thoroughly before priming and painting it. 4 cedar deck boards 9 83 each 39 32. Even on a balcony deck or patio veggie garden you ll get a good yield of potatoes with these inexpensive light smart and reusable bag planters. To make a garden box you will first have to clear the area that you plan to put the box then assemble the box and finally add soil to plant your vegetables in.
As you can easily notice in the image you should check if the corners are right angled before locking the components together with screws. Cost to build raised garden boxes per box. I wanted to grow tomatoes on my deck because it gets more sun than the small yard. Deck garden planter box.
To do so substitute 1 x 6 treated boards for the tongue and groove cedar boards. Okay so what if your patio space is maxed out and there s nowhere else to grow.