How Do You Build Vegetable Fruit Beds From Pressure Treated Lumber Wood?
Building vegetable and fruit beds offers the gardener the benefits of better drainage and improved soil. Your plants grow more produce because their roots form above your regular soil problems. You can grow your plants closer together since you do not have to put pathways between your rows. There is less maintenance due to less weed growth and less stooping. It also makes growing a garden possible on difficult gardening sites. Using pressure treated lumber creates a long lasting construction that is resistant to wood rot. Remove any large rocks, brush and perennial weeds. Perennial weeds can grow up through the finished raised bed. Remove soil humps with a shovel to create a level building area measuring four feet by eight feet. This will help give you a flat area to install your pressure treated lumber bed. Lay your lumber out in a rectangle that measures four feet by eight feet. A four foot bed will make working from either side more convenient. This puts the center line of the bed w
