The next raised bed goes up

I finished the second raised vegetable bed last week. It cost about $50 in materials. Half of that went for lumber. I bought four 2" x 6" boards, each 10-feet long, and a dozen wooden stakes. The rest of the money covered a couple of bags of compost and two hefty bags of organic soil. Like the bad sheriff in "Unforgiven," I'm no carpenter. But even I can build a raised bed, and I encourage you to do the same for flowers or vegetables. 


Note: I had all the tools you need for this. You really need a good rubber mallet for the stakes.

Aside from the light rain that fell when I started to put it together, the only other challenge was the puppy. He want to dig in the dirt whenever I was trying to build the frames or add compost and soil. Only three months old, Scrappy has the super-sized paws of the Basset hound and can create a big hole in a hurry.