Raised Bed Construction - Raised Bed Gardening - page 48

Chapter II: Raised Bed Construction
Section 1: Materials List for Raised Beds made with Dimensional Lumber
We moved into our house in the Spring of 2005. As typical for our area, there was no land-
scaping of any kind, just a graded lot with clay, large boulders and chunks of concrete from
other construction projects. The yard was pure mud after the snow melted, then quickly
turned into adobe brick and dust in our dry climate.
We started building raised beds in 2006 and now have 11 different raised beds made from
un-treated dimensional lumber that totals about 650 square feet of garden space. We have
an additional 12 raised beds made from stacked stones pulled from our lot which hold fruit
trees, strawberries, vegetables and a variety of flower beds.
Table 2 and Table 3 below list the lumber needed to build rectangular raised beds of various
sizes with minimal waste (left over).