This is GRM afterall: Raised gardening beds

I used pressure treated 2x12's and set up a 4'x16' garden in a sunny spot against the house for mine...

Rusnak_322 wrote: FYI - pressure treated lumber no longer carries the arsenic that it used to. There are other ways to treat the wood that do not leach into the soil. http://www.gardeningblog.net/2009/04/12/using-pressure-treated-lumber-in-raised-garden-beds/ http://extension.oregonstate.edu/question-of-the-week/raised-bed-lumber-pressure-treated-safe Looked into this a couple of years ago. Google takes 20 seconds to find dozen of articles that show it is OK.

Cedar is cheaper anyway! And I'm still not buying the "these chemicals are totally OK!" argument. We heard the same thing about Margarine.

BAM!

I already have some things growing...

I've got two made of cedar from Menard's in my modest yard with a southern exposure. They're filled with a mix of topsoil, manure, and compost and I think that's a huge advantage - the soil is so nice compared to what's in the ground. We're still experimenting with what grows well here... Close to Lake Michigan so it's cooler with more fog than further inland. Trellis sections were in the beds leaning against the garage for cucumbers last year, and they would dangle down below for easy harvest. However cukes did terrible overall so I'm just doing one small section of bush cukes this year.

Rain barrel is a nice supplement for watering but runs dry come late summer. Compost bin is awesome, basically everything from the kitchen and most yard scraps go in there. I also use Ryobi 40V mower and trimmer which work surprisingly well, can do my smaller city lot front and back lawns on one battery. I'm never going back to gas unless we move somewhere with a lot of land.

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