Build your own raised garden box and join all the gardeners who
have discovered how a raised planting area improves drainage and
makes it easier to create an ideal soil mixture. Raised boxes
are also less demanding physically for people who have trouble
bending or kneeling to reach the ground. If you build more than
one raised box, leave enough space between them for you to move
around and work on each box. Adjust the measurements to create a
box that will fit in your garden. Saw two planks of 6-foot cedar
in half to create 4 sections, each 3 feet long. Set aside. Saw a
4 by 4 stud into four pieces, each 16 inches long. Stand a
3-foot plank on its narrow edge. Position a 16-inch post upright
and so that it overlaps with one end of the 3-foot plank. Work
on a flat surface and make the face of the plank that is on the
ground flush with the face of the stud that is on the ground.
Hammer two galvanized nails through the plank into the stud.
Position a second 16-inch stud at the opposite end of the 3-foot
plank. H