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They were two 4'x4' ones, I think 18" tall. My mom used one for flowers and one for 3 different varieties of tomatoes. Seemed to work fine.

Bi-Mart is a local chain store, I think the nearest one to you is in Oregon City.

Are looking for them for landscaping? Veggies? You have wild deer or rabbits?

The aluminum water troughs are good to use for vegetable beds if you have animals that want to eat what you're growing or if water is scarce.

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Free wood pallets can make great garden beds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wood pallet garden bed&sca_esv=5ee345275e04b3bb&hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACQVn0_3fMy425TAIZJ3K6uE2ZQGIAMZXg:1707250678107&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=911&ei=9pPCZd6eBLDy0PEPvuKXwAQ&iflsig=ANes7DEAAAAAZcKiBpks5pc3vGpH7ATXY6DoKV4U7mfu&oq=wood pallet gar&gs_lp=EgNpbWciD3dvb2QgcGFsbGV0IGdhcioCCAEyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESKpZUIcMWMVHcAh4AJABAJgB1wGgAfsNqgEGMTkuMS4yuAEByAEA-AEBigILZ3dzLXdpei1pbWeoAgrCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIEECMYJ8ICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIHEAAYgAQYGMICCRAAGIAEGBgYCg&sclient=img

Just be careful, some pallets are treated with chemicals, you wouldn't want to use those

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They were two 4'x4' ones, I think 18" tall. My mom used one for flowers and one for 3 different varieties of tomatoes. Seemed to work fine.

Bi-Mart is a local chain store, I think the nearest one to you is in Oregon City.

Are looking for them for landscaping? Veggies? You have wild deer or rabbits?

The aluminum water troughs are good to use for vegetable beds if you have animals that want to eat what you're growing or if water is scarce.

...

Free wood pallets can make great garden beds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wood pallet garden bed&sca_esv=5ee345275e04b3bb&hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACQVn0_3fMy425TAIZJ3K6uE2ZQGIAMZXg:1707250678107&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=911&ei=9pPCZd6eBLDy0PEPvuKXwAQ&iflsig=ANes7DEAAAAAZcKiBpks5pc3vGpH7ATXY6DoKV4U7mfu&oq=wood pallet gar&gs_lp=EgNpbWciD3dvb2QgcGFsbGV0IGdhcioCCAEyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESKpZUIcMWMVHcAh4AJABAJgB1wGgAfsNqgEGMTkuMS4yuAEByAEA-AEBigILZ3dzLXdpei1pbWeoAgrCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIEECMYJ8ICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIHEAAYgAQYGMICCRAAGIAEGBgYCg&sclient=img

I have a bi-mart card!

Mostly for veggies. Tomatoes, cucumbers, zuccinni(man I love the wife's zuccinni bread). I'm looking for solid wall types to avoid weed infiltration. I had built some cinderblock styles ones at my last home ,and though I lined it, we still had issues with weeds growing. We would prefer raised higher the better to avoid bending over, having to get on our knees alot, if possible.
 
I have a bi-mart card!

Mostly for veggies. Tomatoes, cucumbers, zuccinni(man I love the wife's zuccinni bread). I'm looking for solid wall types to avoid weed infiltration. I had built some cinderblock styles ones at my last home ,and though I lined it, we still had issues with weeds growing. We would prefer raised higher the better to avoid bending over, having to get on our knees alot, if possible.

Hit up Craigslist free section every few days.

https://www.google.com/search?q=row...AAYBRgewgIGEAAYCBgewgIHEAAYgAQYGA&sclient=img
 
Just be careful, some pallets are treated with chemicals, you wouldn't want to use those

pallet-treatment-codes.png
DAMMIT, WHY DID YOU TELL HIM?!?!

The 2nd link I gave him shows plastic liners.
 
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I dug raised beds.
Waiting for storms to end so I can pull out covet crop.
 
I'm shopping for a few raised garden beds. 6'-8' L x 2'-3' W x 24" T(min).

Anyone buy any in the last year or so you are happy with? sooo many options online.

I've had bad luck with raised beds. Your climate is better for raised beds than mine. However....something to keep in mind....

All climates will require you to water the raised bed more often than a ground level bed. Raised beds dry out faster in all weather, especially on hot days.

Instead of raised beds, as soon as the snow is gone, I now cover the ground with a clear plastic to warm the ground up to get a longer growing season. Black plastic does not heat up the ground as deep as clear plastic.
 
I've had bad luck with raised beds. Your climate is better for raised beds than mine. However....something to keep in mind....

All climates will require you to water the raised bed more often than a ground level bed. Raised beds dry out faster in all weather, especially on hot days.

Instead of raised beds, as soon as the snow is gone, I now cover the ground with a clear plastic to warm the ground up to get a longer growing season. Black plastic does not heat up the ground as deep as clear plastic.

You can solve all of those problems by getting a grow light and using your bathtub as a garden bed.
 
I've had bad luck with raised beds. Your climate is better for raised beds than mine. However....something to keep in mind....

All climates will require you to water the raised bed more often than a ground level bed. Raised beds dry out faster in all weather, especially on hot days.

Instead of raised beds, as soon as the snow is gone, I now cover the ground with a clear plastic to warm the ground up to get a longer growing season. Black plastic does not heat up the ground as deep as clear plastic.

Thanks for the advice! The good news a is I am expanding our outdoor spicket to stretch down to where i want to put the boxes, so I'm hooping to be able to just install a sprinkler timer and adjust as needed to keep things watered pretty consistently.
 
I grow catnip outdoors. Lucia was one of the minority of cats not susceptible but Lashanna has definitely gotten high.
 
So I decided to completely tear down my old large garden beds and level the earth to put in some grass. I moved the dirt to another area of my yard where I will then compact, lay down weed paper, gravel and a 4-6 smaller boxes, 4x8.
I did this in the last day or two(tearing down and leveling) with an excavator I rented. Nothing like playing with adult toys, but man i'm beat! lol.

Ill add a few picks once complete. Need to get done soon so we can get ready to plant things.
 
Been clearing cover crop and see overwinter vegetables growing. Kale, lettuce, bok choy, scallions, chard. Artichoke plant starting to make artichokes, still no sign of asparagus.
 
Cleared a lot of ground, no easy task. Hands and shoulders are aching. Put in peas, carrots, celery, parsley, cauliflower, beets, chard, lettuce, kale, bok choy.
 
Cleared a lot of ground, no easy task. Hands and shoulders are aching. Put in peas, carrots, celery, parsley, cauliflower, beets, chard, lettuce, kale, bok choy.

Take an Aleve and watch the blazers game. They’re pretty hard up for viewership right now
 
It is snowing now. It has snowed almost everyday this month.

Not enough snow to cause problems, but. My gardem will get a late start. Ground is still very frozen.

Starter plants doing well under grow lights. But, they get in the way inside the cave.
 
I've let my chickens clean up my garden recently and I'm probably going to let my old beds be their foraging yard and plant in their old foraging yard where they've been pooping for 3 years. I'm going to plant lots of peas and beans along the fence lines which surround about a qtr acre ...time to do crop rotation. I find you don't need big beds to grow most veggies....you can selectively grow them in smaller areas . The large beds are for squash now of tubers like potatoes garlic and onions and radishes or beets. Now that it's just the wife and I we don't plant as much as we used to...also now only keep 6 laying hens instead of the dozen we used to keep. Chicken food went up another @ bucks today....it used to be 12 bucks a bag and now it's 22 bucks a bag.
 

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