How To Make Garden Boxes Out Of Wood

When choosing wood BE SURE to use untreated wood.

How to make garden boxes out of wood. Two compounds alkaline copper quat ACQ and copper azole CA-B have now replaced CCA wood in the residential market. Once we cut the corners to fit together we used deck screws to secure them together. Use large Spring Metal Clamps to hold the strips in.

Our two longer garden boxes measure 6 feet long by 3 feet wide and 15 inches high. This will help hold the wooden frame in place as your plants grow over the years. After all posts and 4 foot boards are cut lay out your ends as shown.

Screw long sides standing upright. And repurposing wooden containers into planters also defines the gardener as someone who is environmentally responsible devoted to repurposing things rather than throwing them away. Turning old wooden containers into planters can make an aesthetic design statementthey are ideally suited to rustic informal garden styles for example.

Dark Stained Wood DIY Planter Box. 4 feet by 4 feet and 15 inches high. You will also need to take two of your 28s and cut them into four 4 foot pieces.

In 2003 the EPA banned the sale of lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate CCA for residential use. These will be the 4 foot pieces you made stacked on top of each other and flush with the posts at each end. Make 4 panels for each planter box.

Stand the boards perpendicular to each other and hammer them together with your longer 3 inch or so nails. To prevent your wood. Use at least 3 nails for these one on each side and in the middle.