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Homestyle making of garden box under $99 in USA

Are you confused between buying a ready-made garden box or making it of your own? I know there are many reasons it is confusing to choose either of them. Ready-made and DIY boxes for the garden have their advantages and disadvantages. But in my opinion, you can try DIY boxes if you just started gardening in raised beds and can't afford expensive boxes for it. 

Very few garden boxes are available in the market that are less than $200 or $250. Here, I'm going to tell you a simple DIY method to make such a box with limited materials an easy method for under $100.

How to make a garden Box under $99?

Believe me, if you have basic tools then you can easily make a wooden box under $99 of at least of sized 5x3x4 longer, wider, and depth respectively. 

Garden box making at home under $99 in USA

I hope you've done any kind of work with a screwing machine and know how to use measuring tape because it is going to be a very important step while making a wooden garden box.  

Ready-made boxes Vs DIY

Following are some basic differences between Ready made boxes and DIY-made boxes for gardening- 

  • Ready-made boxes are fixed in size, so if you want them to adjust in different areas, there can be difficulty while placing them by utilizing the whole space. On the other hand, you can design DIY garden boxes according to your space and a certain size. 
  • Ready-made boxes are available in various build materials like plastic, wood, glass, etc. But you only have very few options for making it with varieties of materials except wooden ones. 
  • Ready-made boxes are expensive according to their material and size. They can cost you almost three to four times more than a simple DIY garden box. For DIY boxes, you only need basic tools, wooden pieces, and some carpenter skills. 
  • Ready-made garden boxes have some lightweight types which you can shift easily. Wooden boxes are heavy and not easy to shift or move once you filled the soil mixture in them.  

Requirements

Considering only wooden cost, screws cost, framing angle, and nails cost, you can afford these things under $100 easily. 

Tools 

  • Screwing machine
  • Screws(one packet of 1.5 inches)
  • Measuring tape
  • Hammer
  • 18 Framing angles

Materials

  • Flat wood(60x5 square inches length and width respectively, 1.5 inches thick)
  • Raised bed soil mixture 

Guide to make wooden garden box

Step 1- Measure the required  box area and box base

First, measure your area for raised bed gardening. If the area i too big then consider similar-sized multiple boxes for the whole area. Use measuring tape and note down the measurements. Suppose you have an area of 5x3 square feet. 

So your base of the box will be of the same measurement.  

Step 2- Measure the side walls of the box

So according to the consideration, your side walls will be 5 feet long and 3 feet wide. So for that, you need to combine the flat wooden pieces. The thickness of walls and support is very important here otherwise the frame will be weak and can't handle the push of soil later. Considering your box will have a depth of 4 feet. If you want to reduce the height of your box, you decrease it and therefore you have to reduce the wood from side walls as well.

Step 3- Start making each wall and base one by one

First, put two 4 feet long, 4 inches wide, and 1.5 inches thick wooden pieces on the ground. So now, you have to place every measured 3 feet wooden piece on these at a right angle(90 degrees). Start screwing one screw in each wooden piece can join with these two wood pieces. Hence, after screwing all the pieces, you'll have a 3 feet width and 4 feet depth in the side walls. 

Now, you have to repeat this process for the longer walls of the box. For that, you can add one more vertical support for longer wooden pieces of 5 feet. Put three wooden pieces of the same measurement on the ground and layer all the 5 feet wooden pieces on them. Start screwing all the screws on these longer walls. In the end, you'll have a longer side wall of 5 feet long and 4 feet depth. 

Make two each of similar walls of width and length walls. Side by side make a base with the same method but remember the method of screwing. 

Step 4- Use a framing angle to adjust the walls on the base

Now, you've to add a base with these walls and joint all the walls together to make the final box. For that, you need to use framing angles to make an easier move. Fix one side of the framing angle in the base leaving 4 inches from the corners. From this, you'll have 3 framing angles each on the longer side of the base and 2 on each side of the width of the base. 

Thus, you can now close all the walls through these framing angles just by screwing them all together. So don't hesitate, just do it right there. Keep the framing angle at 90 degrees while fixing the side walls. 

You can keep in mind while doing this that you need to keep the face of joint wood pieces towards the outside to avoid unnecessary space cover.  

After it, you need to joint the walls with each other for a stronger structure. For that, use the same framing angles and screw them vertically from inside the box. Two in each corner vertically. 

Step 5- Add additional support in the box

Though your box is ready now you can add additional support for heavy-weight of soil mixture and water later. For that, screw all the corners horizontally from bottom to upwards in each corner from outside. Repeat this in all four corners and then your box will be finally ready for long-time raised bed gardening.

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