This is the same setup I made for my garden, no more woodchuck problems. I prefer this way too as I made mine waist high to me so no bending over killing my back. Weeding if at all is a breeze, no standing water in torrential rain and they are moveable if need be. It's a very advantageous set up for most of whatever you plant. Only my tomatoes and potatoes go in the ground. Lettuce, peppers, Swiss chard, onions, beets, beans are all grown in mine and grow amazingly well, I dare say better than in ground. It's fantastic to walk up to your garden and just get to work right where you stand. Next year I take about 1/4 of the old soil out and add fresh compost and organic fertilizer and worm castings and it's good to go. The older soil I removed I save in a pile and amend it with leaf mold and more compost and I have it ready for next year or whenever and wherever I need it. Great video though, no annoying music and straight to the point-thanks for making this.
Another thought some might want to consider is to add wheels to each bed so they could be moved around their yard for sunlight or storm protection, etc.
Thank you for sharing this. I sacrificed one of my rain barrels and luckily I had some scrap wood left from another project. I don't have best control with a circular saw, so i used it to make the inital cut, then used a reciprocating saw to finish the job. I made 2, had them filled, and strawberries planted before lunchtime. Of course, my toddler was my assistant. Edit: The reciprocating saw was used on the barrel.
I hope you don't mind me taking your idea and telling my wife I thought of this...after I make her a couple...lol....only thing I'm going to add is drain holes in the bottom and get a piece of eaves trough that should fit underneath the barrel strapped with unistrap at one end to flow any run off water into a five gallon bucket... That way I can use horse manure on the bottom three inches and good soil on the top seven inches.. Thank you young man for keeping this a play by play video , simple and effective , I wish my shop teacher in high school was more informative like you, 👍 👍 🇨🇦
To whoever is making these: double check that your bases line up because if you don't make the Xs identical, the 24" posts won't fit. Make sure the piece on your left goes over the piece on your right each time or vice versa. Or after you screw one base, just hold up the other X to make sure its lines up. Or make a symmetrical X (measure 18" minus 1/2the width of the 2x4 and line up at the top) so you can just rotate. Love my planters thank you for this video! I also stained the wood and spray painted the barrels and they look pretty!
Dear Rick, one and half year, the first barrel collapsed on its weight I thinks ,there are more rainy days in the Netherlands as in Canada? So i forcened the barrels with a wooden bruce on both sides. Also had to put some metal bars on both sides below the barrel to avoid collapsing, too. Now there are good and sturdy. Got a lot of reviews and refer to the Canadian Guy on YT :-)
It's been awhile since I watched your video and I did make my 10 planters (actually 12) and now I have veggies growing in all of them. I really appreciate you sharing this project with us. It was fun to make and are super productive. Thank you once again. God Bless
What ab great way to make horizontal raised garden beds from 55 gal plastic barrels! the easiest build I have seen on UA-cam using the least amount of material.. Awesome way to level, thanks for the video.
Wow! I love all those raised DIY garden beds! I'll be waiting for all the vegetables, herbs, and what have you on those practical beds! Thanks for sharing this video ❤
Some dam fine work, thanks for posting. I'm going to use these on a hard surface. Plan to flatten the leg bottoms and put them on pallets for easy moving and filling out of a tractor bucket. Some cheap hoops for cover material might come in handy here in Canada, not sure what i can source easily. Maybe some barrel lid rings? Have some square hole wire fence laying around, might try to make a few arches for climbing plants too. Stay gold.
I recently finished building a metal ladder trap so I'm looking forward to getting several of these made. Thanks for not filling your video with a lot of "talk".
So i had planned to do a planter box garden this year when i saw the prices of them got discouraged. I saw your video got a hold of some metal barrels used your measurements and now i have six planter boxes. Thank you so much for the video it was really easy to do and lots of fun. Great video
Thank you! Just found barrels for $5 at a company that makes car wash supplies. They held lemon juice. We are making these this weekend. Subscribed. Valerie in SC
Will be making 10 of these today. Your method has the least amount of cuts of all I've seen which equals much faster build. Thanks for sharing. God Bless
Rick it’s Clay Tall Stories, he’s rough as guts when it comes to gardening. He’s primarily a hunting channel and only started gardening last year in their first lockdown having never gardened in his life. I’m trying to find better videos but for some reason I can’t get any key words for the search
I bought 11 barrels last year 5.00 each off Craigslist and have tried hiring someone to make frames 2ft tall.. I have a sitting bench I will use to weed and garden with. Mine contained syrup for soda, food grade. Noone available so i do have a sawsaw. Will do these myself. Thanks so much.
Really appreciate you for taking your time and effort in this project, that was a success and the result are so nice Rick! Glad you shared the tutorial and your ideas with us! Keep sharing!❤
I saw this and continued pondering for days, then finally came up with elevating my barrels using 4 X 4 skids on cement blocks. Same height, no lumber required, the skids were free from work, I did however have to buy the blocks. Nice work though.
Thank you guys. The other beds have been made for several weeks. Finding time to complete projects right now is difficult. Hopefully I can get something in them by the end of the week.
Just found your channel and love the build. Easy and straightforward, need to get the tools out. Do they sink into the ground with all the rain? I live in FL, a lot of wind and rain. Thank you again
It would give more support to make half lap joints on the side pieces instead of screwing the 2x4s together, though the project would take a little longer. L
This is very interesting. But what are you going to do when the grass and weeds start coming up around the bottoms of the raised beds? Will you have to trim them individually?
Okay, so, I currently have 2 plastic barrels that I currently have NO USE FOR. I had originally filled them with water and used them in my greenhouse as a "heat sink". BUT, they hadn't really added any extra heat to my GH, so, I have been wanting to find a new use for them. AND, I have been thinking that IF I can cut them in half "lengthwise", that maybe I can make some great planters out of them. I have already cut some in half the OTHER way, and NOW, I am thinking that cutting them in half "LENGTHWISE" that I could manage to grow more produce in them as longer beds. I would basically ONLY need info as to how to build the WOODEN base, that would properly be able to hold the plastic barrel once it was cut in half lengthwise. So, now, I have to watch this video, to know how to do this right. Okay, so I am here to learn how to make the barrels into beds, BUT, I gotta say that YOUR DOGS are REALLY making me happy. I mean, I have 1 "BULLY BREED" dog and 1 "DOG THAT IS LOOKIN LIKE YOUR OTHER DOG", so, I am feelin good seeing YOUR dogs playing. BUT, OKAY, I gotta get serious here I guess. Anyhow, I can figure out how to cut the barrel in half LENGTHWISE, BUT, what about making the part the barrel half sits on?? Now, that is what I need to get right in order to be able to be able to go on about growing plants in these beds. I see that there are 2 24 inch pieces, then I THINK it says 1 36" part. Then, at the 18" mark, you make mark in pencil or pen, and then at that 18" part, is where the 2 24" parts end up being joined together?? And, 3 inch "wood screws" are used to join together the planks that will be making up the frame of the "plastic barrel planters". Anyway, THIS is just all a nice video that helps with making up some new beds to grow things in. I am still very confused as to how to make up the beds with using some old blue plastic barrels. I am mostly confused about making the wooden frame to hold on the plastic half barrels. AND, I haven;t had much success with any weed blocking fabric. I have bought it and used it, BUT, the weeds just end up coming up and ruining everything. My family is VERY against any weed killers, ROUNDUP is like SATAN to my mom.
Yeah, I see just HOW that the barrel can be cut in half lengthwise. And that would SURELY make it easy peasy to make the barrel be able to be cut in half lengthwise once the end purpose is made known.
Well explained video, definitely my first project for 2023. The lumber is there and the 4 , 210 liter barrels to. Any idea what to put in between the barrels, as mine are open on the top ? Any suggestion is welcome.
Rick, marvellous and easy workout. I made already 5 , and just painted them in the same colour as the barrels.As mine were open on the top, I bought some Guttagliss PVC Foam which is easy to cut for the diameter. THX again!
I garden in raised barrel beds, love them!!! I took a torch and lightly melted the cut edge and they get smooth as glass. This guy had a so smart easy idea for his stands, wish I knew earlier. i ua-cam.com/video/XpBirC1lSo8/v-deo.htmlsi=k3N4Z_y_ImbpIwEH
Good video lil Rick. Very informative. Prep your wood🤣🤣
Wood is prepped lol
Great ! Now my wife has me building one, Thanks !
very good vid, you are a credit to hard working people.. and also 1/2 barrel be used to raise earthworms
This is the same setup I made for my garden, no more woodchuck problems. I prefer this way too as I made mine waist high to me so no bending over killing my back. Weeding if at all is a breeze, no standing water in torrential rain and they are moveable if need be. It's a very advantageous set up for most of whatever you plant. Only my tomatoes and potatoes go in the ground. Lettuce, peppers, Swiss chard, onions, beets, beans are all grown in mine and grow amazingly well, I dare say better than in ground. It's fantastic to walk up to your garden and just get to work right where you stand. Next year I take about 1/4 of the old soil out and add fresh compost and organic fertilizer and worm castings and it's good to go. The older soil I removed I save in a pile and amend it with leaf mold and more compost and I have it ready for next year or whenever and wherever I need it. Great video though, no annoying music and straight to the point-thanks for making this.
Another thought some might want to consider is to add wheels to each bed so they could be moved around their yard for sunlight or storm protection, etc.
the two dogs in the background....
Thank you for sharing this. I sacrificed one of my rain barrels and luckily I had some scrap wood left from another project. I don't have best control with a circular saw, so i used it to make the inital cut, then used a reciprocating saw to finish the job. I made 2, had them filled, and strawberries planted before lunchtime. Of course, my toddler was my assistant.
Edit: The reciprocating saw was used on the barrel.
I hope you don't mind me taking your idea and telling my wife I thought of this...after I make her a couple...lol....only thing I'm going to add is drain holes in the bottom and get a piece of eaves trough that should fit underneath the barrel strapped with unistrap at one end to flow any run off water into a five gallon bucket... That way I can use horse manure on the bottom three inches and good soil on the top seven inches..
Thank you young man for keeping this a play by play video , simple and effective , I wish my shop teacher in high school was more informative like you, 👍 👍 🇨🇦
You are welcome!! Glad you found it useful. Good luck with the garden. Like the drain idea.
Don't cut through the caps. Cut through the barrel 90° to the caps and use the caps as drains.
That's what I was thinking. That will also help in keeping the wood dryer slowing any rot.
I would cut at least a 1/2" groove for the 2x4s too set into get her for more support.
To whoever is making these: double check that your bases line up because if you don't make the Xs identical, the 24" posts won't fit. Make sure the piece on your left goes over the piece on your right each time or vice versa. Or after you screw one base, just hold up the other X to make sure its lines up. Or make a symmetrical X (measure 18" minus 1/2the width of the 2x4 and line up at the top) so you can just rotate. Love my planters thank you for this video! I also stained the wood and spray painted the barrels and they look pretty!
Great - Thanks for the feedback. - Rick
Dear Rick, one and half year, the first barrel collapsed on its weight I thinks ,there are more rainy days in the Netherlands as in Canada? So i forcened the barrels with a wooden bruce on both sides. Also had to put some metal bars on both sides below the barrel to avoid collapsing, too. Now there are good and sturdy. Got a lot of reviews and refer to the Canadian Guy on YT :-)
Great video straight-to-the-point without all the BS just what we like. 👍
Appreciate it. Thanks for watching. - Rick
Thank god i found this vid i was about to do a whole lots of work for nothing
Glad you found it useful. - Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm yep i did it!!!! have to say it came out pretty good😅 between 1 to 10 i'll give myself an 8 my dad and my mom liked it too
It's been awhile since I watched your video and I did make my 10 planters (actually 12) and now I have veggies growing in all of them. I really appreciate you sharing this project with us. It was fun to make and are super productive. Thank you once again. God Bless
This is such a great idea! Thank you for teaching us to make them. That is so great you are starting a garden by your house. Have a great night!!!❤
Thank you for watching. You have a good night as well!
Thank you very much for the premeasurement. It is really helpful.
What ab great way to make horizontal raised garden beds from 55 gal plastic barrels! the easiest build I have seen on UA-cam using the least amount of material.. Awesome way to level, thanks for the video.
Thanks a ton for watching.
Wow! I love all those raised DIY garden beds! I'll be waiting for all the vegetables, herbs, and what have you on those practical beds! Thanks for sharing this video ❤
Thank you at Mom's Kitchen. I'm planning to have something in the beds by the end of the week.
This is an awesome video. I've been looking for a way to make inexpensive raised beds. Thank you.
Awesome. I am glad you found it useful. - Rick
Thank you so much. I used your info to build 2 frames I’m going to be building another two.
Good luck to you and your family for the future.
Nice job Little Rick, thanks for sharing. Take care and have a blessed week my friend
You to brother. Thank you for watching!
Some dam fine work, thanks for posting.
I'm going to use these on a hard surface. Plan to flatten the leg bottoms and put them on pallets for easy moving and filling out of a tractor bucket.
Some cheap hoops for cover material might come in handy here in Canada, not sure what i can source easily. Maybe some barrel lid rings?
Have some square hole wire fence laying around, might try to make a few arches for climbing plants too.
Stay gold.
Really glad you found it useful. - Rick
Looks neat and well thought out... Not just slapped together. I'm doing it!!
Thanks for watching and commenting. - Rick
I recently finished building a metal ladder trap so I'm looking forward to getting several of these made. Thanks for not filling your video with a lot of "talk".
So i had planned
to do a planter box garden this year when i saw the prices of them got discouraged. I saw your video got a hold of some metal barrels used your measurements and now i have six planter boxes. Thank you so much for the video it was really easy to do and lots of fun. Great video
Glad you found it useful!! Good luck on your garden.
I'm thinking of doing the same.. got pics?
Dear Santa 😁
lol
Thank you! Just found barrels for $5 at a company that makes car wash supplies. They held lemon juice. We are making these this weekend. Subscribed.
Valerie in SC
Will be making 10 of these today. Your method has the least amount of cuts of all I've seen which equals much faster build. Thanks for sharing. God Bless
Thx Rick, for this manual! Photo's will I will forward when finished this nice project.
So simple. I'm going to ask my husband to make a couple of these but for worm farm bins instead of raised garden beds. Thanks for the idea.
I think this would would work well for a worm farm - great idea!! Thanks for stopping by. - Rick
Nice video thanks. Was thinking of building one but my idea was more complex. This is a much better idea
Thanks Gary - Good luck with the beds and your garden..
Thank you so much for this video, I absolutely love the results. Easy to follow instructions made making our raised bed. 🙂
maybe glue the joint with titebond 3 wood glue and screw together.
Great instructional video Rick. Another YTer I follow is from Tasman in New Zealand. He uses mussel bouys for his containers🍺🍺
Can you give me the name of their channel?
Rick it’s Clay Tall Stories, he’s rough as guts when it comes to gardening. He’s primarily a hunting channel and only started gardening last year in their first lockdown having never gardened in his life. I’m trying to find better videos but for some reason I can’t get any key words for the search
Good stuff mate we’ll explained
Have just done mine, thanks to you
Outstanding!!! Hope they turned out well!!! - Rick
Great idea for a quick raised bed 👍🍻
Thanks 👍
I bought 11 barrels last year 5.00 each off Craigslist and have tried hiring someone to make frames 2ft tall.. I have a sitting bench I will use to weed and garden with. Mine contained syrup for soda, food grade. Noone available so i do have a sawsaw. Will do these myself. Thanks so much.
I'm happy you found the video. I've been using these beds since before making this video and they work very well.
@The LaLa Farm thanks for giving detailed information. I also will do 2 of them half tall planters so they'll be 17 inches deep, potatoes.
Thank you for the very helpful video .We will be making these for my new garden this year.Happy Gardening and have an Awesome Day!!
Such a great video!!! 😃😃👏👏👏 Thank You. I just got my barrels today and was looking 👀 for a way to set them up. 😃👀 great idea😃👏👏
Really appreciate you for taking your time and effort in this project, that was a success and the result are so nice Rick! Glad you shared the tutorial and your ideas with us! Keep sharing!❤
Thank you for stopping by and watching. - Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm You are welcome friend! Have a good day!❤️
I saw this and continued pondering for days, then finally came up with elevating my barrels using 4 X 4 skids on cement blocks. Same height, no lumber required, the skids were free from work, I did however have to buy the blocks. Nice work though.
Just did this in 2x3" since I'm cheap, seems to work fine but will update if not.
Well done thank you from n Ireland 🤝
Made 6 came out great.Thanks for the info.
Go Ahead !
Awesome video as usual 😎
Thank you very much Everything Shakes. Have a great rest of the night.
Nice job, Rick.
Thank you guys. The other beds have been made for several weeks. Finding time to complete projects right now is difficult. Hopefully I can get something in them by the end of the week.
Thank you great video!
Thank you.
Very good information that you shared and great work that's a good idea
Thank you very much for watching.
@@TheLaLaFarm welcome
Good video. Will be making a few. Thanks.
Great video! thank you!
Good video bubba…thank you
Just found your channel and love the build. Easy and straightforward, need to get the tools out. Do they sink into the ground with all the rain? I live in FL, a lot of wind and rain. Thank you again
That's a great idea. If I just had someone handy around to make some. Have a good night :-):-):-)
You to Robin. Thank you for watching.
Great job Sir appreciate it 🫡
Do you drill drain holes in the bottom? If so what size and how many? Great video.
I love this idea,we don’t have bend down to work on the raised beds.Have a great week.
I'm still young but everybody is getting older. Prepping for the future lol
Great job! Will be trying them out!
Please do! Getting them that far in the air. I don't know a cheaper or easier way.
This guy is funny.....
I made the supports 4 feet long. I'm tall
Thank you sir!!!
Very good video! Thanks!
Thank you Paulla for watching and commenting. - Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm - Absolutely!
It would give more support to make half lap joints on the side pieces instead of screwing the 2x4s together, though the project would take a little longer.
L
Amazing ideia, thanks for sharing =D. Hugs from Brazil.
Thank you! 😊
This is very interesting. But what are you going to do when the grass and weeds start coming up around the bottoms of the raised beds? Will you have to trim them individually?
Okay, so, I currently have 2 plastic barrels that I currently have NO USE FOR. I had originally filled them with water and used them in my greenhouse as a "heat sink". BUT, they hadn't really added any extra heat to my GH, so, I have been wanting to find a new use for them.
AND, I have been thinking that IF I can cut them in half "lengthwise", that maybe I can make some great planters out of them. I have already cut some in half the OTHER way, and NOW, I am thinking that cutting them in half "LENGTHWISE" that I could manage to grow more produce in them as longer beds. I would basically ONLY need info as to how to build the WOODEN base, that would properly be able to hold the plastic barrel once it was cut in half lengthwise. So, now, I have to watch this video, to know how to do this right.
Okay, so I am here to learn how to make the barrels into beds, BUT, I gotta say that YOUR DOGS are REALLY making me happy. I mean, I have 1 "BULLY BREED" dog and 1 "DOG THAT IS LOOKIN LIKE YOUR OTHER DOG", so, I am feelin good seeing YOUR dogs playing.
BUT, OKAY, I gotta get serious here I guess.
Anyhow, I can figure out how to cut the barrel in half LENGTHWISE, BUT, what about making the part the barrel half sits on?? Now, that is what I need to get right in order to be able to be able to go on about growing plants in these beds.
I see that there are 2 24 inch pieces, then I THINK it says 1 36" part. Then, at the 18" mark, you make mark in pencil or pen, and then at that 18" part, is where the 2 24" parts end up being joined together?? And, 3 inch "wood screws" are used to join together the planks that will be making up the frame of the "plastic barrel planters".
Anyway, THIS is just all a nice video that helps with making up some new beds to grow things in. I am still very confused as to how to make up the beds with using some old blue plastic barrels. I am mostly confused about making the wooden frame to hold on the plastic half barrels. AND, I haven;t had much success with any weed blocking fabric. I have bought it and used it, BUT, the weeds just end up coming up and ruining everything.
My family is VERY against any weed killers, ROUNDUP is like SATAN to my mom.
Yeah, I see just HOW that the barrel can be cut in half lengthwise. And that would SURELY make it easy peasy to make the barrel be able to be cut in half lengthwise once the end purpose is made known.
Great build. Question on getting bleach out. Couldn’t I just rinse them with a vinegar solution to neutralize the chlorine?
You can find food grade ones. But like he said you got to know someone
Like this 👌
Good for old people that we know.
Hey, I'm prepping for the future lol
Well explained video, definitely my first project for 2023. The lumber is there and the 4 , 210 liter barrels to. Any idea what to put in between the barrels, as mine are open on the top ? Any suggestion is welcome.
Rick, marvellous and easy workout. I made already 5 , and just painted them in the same colour as the barrels.As mine were open on the top, I bought some Guttagliss PVC Foam which is easy to cut for the diameter. THX again!
Are you using pressure treated 2x4s? I see the bottom rotting quickly with ground contact.
What did you use to cut the barrel in half down center
Should the 2 x 4s be pressure treated ?
Was there some type of medium(rocks or gravel) added before the soil to help with drainage?
Nice video bro 👍. But where did you get that tool box slash work bench from I need one lol
I'm confused. That's 120 inches of wood for this project. 8 feet is only 96 inches.
Exactly what I was thinking. The math doesn't add up.
Okay, so he needs to use 10 footers, not 8. Then it works out.
How many holes do you recommend drilling in the bottom. And how big of a hole
What kind of screws? Help!
how much dirt is needed?
What size screws????
I garden in raised barrel beds, love them!!! I took a torch and lightly melted the cut edge and they get smooth as glass. This guy had a so smart easy idea for his stands, wish I knew earlier. i ua-cam.com/video/XpBirC1lSo8/v-deo.htmlsi=k3N4Z_y_ImbpIwEH
Mine are quicker to make and easier to move around
I will be doing a couple of the half barrels but I like how this is elevated.