Gardener's Supply Company Raised Garden Bed Elevated Cedar Planter Box | 4' x 4' Heavy Duty Standing Garden Planters for Outdoor Plant Vegetables & Flower Gardening Perfect for Patio, Lawn & Backyard

I love these planter boxes! They're a good size, the construction seems sturdy, and they're beautiful! I water sealed the wood planks before I assembled them, and they seem to be holding up well. My only criticism are the instructions for assembly. the instructions were not very clear or easy to follow, but ultimately, we were able to assemble the boxes fine. Overall, still happy with my purchase!

These garden beds are perfect for raising your garden for easier access. The cedar looks excellent and improves the overall look of my vegetable garden (it distracts the eye from the poorer-performing plants).There was one slight issue, however. Our soil is clay and the base of each leg is open, so our beds slowly sank into the ground, making them unlevel and forcing me to bend over further to work in my garden. However, Gardener's Supply does sell footers to insert into the legs to keep them level. I would highly recommend installing the footers if you think your soil will not hold the bed because you'll need to remove all the soil to install the footers after the fact.

First off this is whole boards, not pressed and glued pieces. So big plus. But it was a bit expensive for what your get. Gardener's supply is like that. Stuff is usually expensive but good. Just depends on the individual product whether it is more on the scale of way too expensive vs it is so good that it is worth the extra price. This is mostly worth the price, would have been better a bit lower price.Assembly wasn't totally seamless. I didn't have to end up drilling pilot holes for all screws like some other cheaper brands. But you do need to line things up with particular offsets. (The top of the boards are offset a bit from the supports.) Even with double checking everything and remeasuring once done (and my offsets were within reasonable variation of true), I did have to use a drill to expand a couple holes on the aluminum frame to get things to fit. And then not perfectly square. But with the slope I was installing them on for final form of it worked ok for me.As a last note research your soil for it! You shouldn't use standard in ground garden soil. However recommended raised bed soil is significantly more expensive. If you look up what is the difference between that and the raised bed soil, the main thing is a healthy dose of peat moss. With a bit of research I was able to recreate the raised bed soil more cheaply using garden soil (cheap), peat moss (a bit more $ but less than using the dedicated soil), and my compost (free). Everything is growing well in my custom mixture.

My husband and I bought two of these. They arrived promptly, and were very well packaged. The wood is excellent quality, thick, well planed and clean. The side supports are very sturdy, metal. There is nothing cheap or flimsy about the materials in this package. The directions are straight forward, and if you take care to read them through before you start, you won't have any problems. I would offer these few suggestions to make your assembly go easier: First, build it on a work bench. Next, I strongly suggest drilling pilot holes for the screws, especially if there happens to be a knot in the wood where the screws should go. If you do that, then assembly is a breeze. Next, have a drill bit that can go through metal handy, in case you need to ream the holes on the final L-Bracket to make them align. (That was our only problem, and it was our fault for not seating the sides fully into the channels.) The first box took us a couple of hours to build, but when we came to the second one, we applied lessons learned, and had it built in about 20 minutes. Gardener's Supply helpfully supplies a good amount of extra screws, as well. The garden box is super sturdy, and will be just the right height for a stand-up garden. I can't wait to plant.

Overall product is of decent quality. My grippe with the product is the assembly. Assembly should have taken 30 minutes but took closer to 2hrs due to poor preassembly. Most of the pre drilled screw holes didn't line up and turned this into a project. In the end it got done though one corner couldn't be screwed together using the pre drilled holes at all and had to be jimmied a different way. Overall, it's sturdy but the assembly really was a pain when it should have been simple. I also feel like the company was aware of this as they provided way more screws than were required and even after stripping 4 screws and using a few extra for the corner that didn't line up I still had a ton of screws left.As I said though, in the end, it's square, solid and looks good but just wasn't preassembled well at all.

We're very happy with these boxes - we bought three. Of particular note, we cut ours down to six feet to fit the existing space. This is EASY if you have a "chopsaw" with carbide teeth. And the long aluminum stiffeners (two per box) are easily cut with the chopsaw as well. The legs and cross pieces do not need cutting at all. You also need a regular drill to make a couple of small screw holes. EX-peasy. My son and his fiance cut and built all three boxes in about 5 hours. The result is sturdy, strong, and looks great. I wish they were cheaper - naturally :-)