How to Build Raised Beds Using Pallets (UPDATE VIDEO LINKED IN DESCRIPTION BOX) | A Thousand Words
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A full tutorial, including tips and tricks, on how to build raised garden beds using pallets WITHOUT having to dismantle the pallets first! (By dismantle I mean taking them apart at the nails, which is a tough process.)
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These raised DIY beds are the best ones I've seen on TH-cam. Very good tutorial too! Thank you for this.
I love your tutorial on the raised bed. It was clear and concise and I love the practical, commonsense way you did it. Thanks for showing. Pallets are an excellent, economical material to use and the staining and capping make the beds look expensive and professional. Good job.
Damn, I've got to admire your tenacity and patience! Good result too. And I liked the background music being at just the right level as to not be annoying. Great video. Full props to you.
Excellent instructional video. It explains everything very well and I can see using many of these ideas for my own raised gardens.
Thank you.
What a terrific idea & you're so talented with your building skills!
Thanks for sharing!😊
Bravo!! Love seeing another handy lady. I have access to lots of pallets and I think these would look marvelous in my Tn country yard!
I just bought a home, and I'll be building a few of these for my yard. Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. :)
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!! My wife and I live on a very fixed budget and you have just opened a huge door for me that I failed to think of. Yes they look lovely and as I live in Dallas Tx there are many free pallets to be had. I am not thinking of all the projects that I could use your raised beds for. Once again thank you for this tutorial.
Brilliant! I’m going to do that this season! It definitely beats the cinderblock raised bed I was going to do. Thank you!
Great tutorial!! Very easy to follow. The beds look great too! Thanks
Excellent! I love how much detail you gave but not too much so that it wasn't repetitive. I'm so glad I found this channel. I plan on using this for my own gardens from now on.
I think this was probably the best pallet raised bed tutorial I’ve yet come across. And it looks so pretty too. Thank you
I love this video! Thank you for showing me how straight forward this can be. I’ll definitely be doing this this spring.
That was Amazing. Thank you for the idea. Since it's my First time having a garden and growing Veggies ....
Never knew something so beautiful could come from pallets. Very good tutorial.
Thank you for this tutorial. It was very helpful. I used to undo the pallets which is quite hard and time consuming. Not only your design is more practical, it's also prettier. And thanks for the tip regarding the pallet treatment.
That’s how I move my pallets....Great video thank you, you go girl!
I was intrigued by this as someone who has zip experience with carpentry or the equipment but loves growing. If you aren't a professional teacher I think you missed a calling. I was surprised how much sense it made to me. Always thought how great raised beds would be but probably won't tackle it at this point though, despite how easy you made it look. I am certain it will offer inspiration and practical help to others though. Thanks also goes to whoever was responsible for the excellent quality of the video itself.
Thank you, you are very kind. I've learned (through comments here) that I was totally using my table saw wrong, whoops!
Just watched your amazing upload! Awesome - am a Zimbabwean living in Holland and soon to be moving to our forever home so this project is now top of the list! Thanx and keep te great uploads coming !Xxx
Love this tutorial!!!!! I will certainly be using your instructions. Keep them coming :)
I was so happy to hear your South African accent! Been looking for someone one TH-cam that knows all about our climate etc. The fact that you don’t live hear anymore is sad. But I am so the two countries are similar...? Love the raised beds. Greetings from Parys in the Freestate.
Absolutely Perfect Shape and Design! You go girl!
That was a really good editorial on how to do that, I'm very very impressed on how you thought outside the box and use what you have. This idea has really helped me dramatically and I think I will be doing it like that thank you so much and keep up the good work.
This was so very helpful thank you! I am a newbie and needed a step by step guide
I'm very happy to say that from your basic instructions I built 2 raised beds. I did add 2x2 in the corners and ran wood strips at top and bottom on the outside as I was afraid the weight of the soil would cause a blow out. As a bonus the extra thickness at the top made the cap boards feel sturdier.
Thanks Susan, great idea.
how many pallets did you use, Susan and how big are your beds? thanks
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS! I am SO going to start saving pallets! Thank you for this AMAZING tutorial!!!
Recycled, functional AND gorgeous! Thank you for the video ❤️
I am impressed with your knowledge of preparing raised beds. BTW you have a great work dedication.
Great video with lots of detail. I'm inspired. Thanks.
An easy way to do pallet garden beds. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely will keep in mind when I can make a raised bed
I love the vertical boards... it gives the beds a nice look!
Very excellent, thorough tutorial! Ending up with an aesthetically functional garden bed. I think I would like to combine this with the hugelkulture technique. Well done! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
If using hugelkulture I would line the beds with plastic because the organisms that break down the wood will start to attack the sides.
Really loved this, Thanks, Just wanted i was looking for! Going to be showing my wife this, letting her see how easy it is to get involved ;)
I'm doing raised beds for the first time and really love how you reclaimed the pallet wood. My wife will be helping as she, like you loves working outdoors and with power tools. Thanks so much. Cheers.
Excellent job - very detailed and informative. I am inspired to make my own. Thank you for posting.
I have always wanted to build my own raised garden beds, great tutorial and advice in comment box! Thank you everyone!
Hope yours turns out well, enjoy!
Awesome video, thank you for sharing.💐
Awesome job smart idea beats back breaking bending down to work a garden no tiller needed. Thanks for posting
Fabulous! thank you for doing this tutorial step by step. They are really very beautiful and do look expensive
You are so awesome! One smart lady!
Great video! Do it the way you want to do it. Everyone thinks their an expert lol. You taught me a lot. Thanks so much.
same with me. i learnt a lot too
Great help. Thank you. I'm going to use your ideas here in Dallas, Tx.
They look really nice. I have loads of pallets I want to repurpose after endless trawling on utube I found this idea the most simple and fast way to turn them into something useful thanks for sharing this.
Omg, you make it look so easy
Thank you for the tutorial. This is a great way to recycle pallets and it looks beautiful in your garden.
Thanks for the compliment :)
Clever Simple Chic thankyou so much! I am now going to locate some palettes and attempt your project to make myself a raised garden bed or two to grow my own organic lettuce.
Clever Simple Chic .
So where did you steal the pallets?
Guess you missed it in the video; she said that you have to do it at night; Supermarkets are the best she says! Happy Stealing!
Your video is a joy to watch as you explain, go over, possible mistakes and easy to understand tips. Your raised bed veggies look wonderful. The wood beds have a soft rustic and elegant consistency. Nice to know see such edible love being shared.
Thank you! Please do watch up update video on how the beds have held up and what not to do when building them.
I’m definitely going to be using these tips when building a raised bed or three this week! Thank you for the video!
Always nice seeing a lady that can build stuff.
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WOW - thank you so much! Already asked friends for pallets! Can't wait to get started!
That was amazing and those beds look so beautiful and expensive! Thanks for showing the whole process! 🌟
I love using pallet wood for EVERYTHING!!!! I even built my 12'x12' shed out of them. The one thing I would consider is moving the top cleats up to the very top edge for larger surface to give stability to the capping.
David Spicer
That sounds great.
Are pallets free or is there a charge ?
I will try this.Thank you so much!!!
I admire you. ♥️💛💚💯Your knowledge is amazing 😉 I must try. Currently vegan in progress and I'm doing full on gardening this year. Thanks I love this idea.
WOW... Beautiful results. Thank You So Much. Blessings to You and Yours.
Great video! Thank you so much for taking the time to share how you build your beds. Your garden beds look fantastic!
Thank you!
On all wooden sailing ships, the top of every mast, which was exposed end grain, was protected by a wooden disc known as the TRUCK. It was there to stop the ingress of rainwater into the end grain, for rainwater rots timber, whilst sea water preserves it, hence the old expression: "From TRUCK to KEEL she was trim and neat". so although you know it as capping, what you are doing is TRUCKING! Keep on TRUCKING!
Very interesting!
Great vid!
At work we have 1x8 inch boards which warp when they first get damp after installation. Eventually they settle in and straighten out. I build my beds only that 8 inch height bracing the corners with scrap aluminum from old gutters or leaders keeping soil from leaking our corners. It's easy to drill through making 4 to 6 holes to facilitate sheet rock screws to hold braces around each corner.. When the boards eventually rot i simply increase the bed size by adding another ourside so planning size is criticalfigurebeds will be in place for a number of years and ample space is needed to mow. Where this vis demos a nice project which is pretty, mine is simple and 5 beds, 48 inches square went togerher on a spring saturday morning.
Fill beds with old branches roots and other scrap wood half way. Eventually they rot but do help retain moisture for a couple of years.
I see some folks gave thumbs down, i mean really, about gardening? Lol. Shes a vlear speaker with good experience and tech knowledge of the subject and is not hard to look at at all :).
What an awesome idea...and beautiful finished result!
Bravo ! Beau travail. Merci. Une bonne idée pour jardiner confortablement et avoir des légumes à coup sûr !
I really like how you harvested the wood. I've been doing it that way for years, but for seedling trays for my soil blockers.
Do you have any advice or instructions on how to build seedling trays? I just found a video that uses the tool that makes the soil blocks, so I'm trying to figure out an easy winter project 😊 thank you
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Good job beautyful the gardienesss,very strong your evens to plant and show word out the world.ok thanks
I often build my own raised beds and I usually buy the material but after seeing your video about free pallet wood it's really got me thinking not to mention that those are some beautiful palettes one bit of friendly advice if I may if you actually want those to be extremely long-term raised beds without pulling apart you might want to try using a little bit of wood glue the next time that's what I do on mine but it's all personal preference
Simply loved your work... Congratulations... PS. You explained it so well, it made it really easy...
Great vid, I love this idea!
Is there anything you can’t do ?. Amazing and the s rustic look makes it even better
Very good use of recycling wood and such a nice finished product. Your garden is to be proud of.
Beautiful. Gonna definitely use this for some home diy projects.
Wow! This is, hands down, the BEST tutorial I have EVER seen on TH-cam (and I watch a lot of them)!! You ROCK!! I felt bad for all the comments that saw one thing not done the way a trade does it and, though I appreciate that extra advice, they utterly ignored the sheer excellence of the entire video. I will be building these and filling them with all my gathered tree branches, German Hügelkultur style (my property is heavily forested so I have lots of fallen limbs). I am so very excited that I found this today as I live on a retired income and thought I couldn't afford to build deeper beds but you've shown me that I can :-). Your finished beds look so nice and, well, I can do this too! Yay!
Thank you for your kind words! Please do use thicker treated wood for the rails and line your beds with plastic and they will last well - unfortunately I did not do those two things and they are coming apart in places.
Wow! This is quite amazing I'm gonna give it a try in my back Yard
Looks great. Could also use the larger pallet 2 x 4's for corner posts. I concrete my corners posts into the ground and build the box around those.
That's a good idea.
Yes, I'm with you on this method.
beautiful garden raised beds also a great job done lovely thanks for the tips
This is just Brilliant and I have about 10 pallets in my Garage taking up valuable space and now i can do exactly as you have done and put them to good use.it also helps that I love gardening too. Thanks to you and what a very nice Lady you sre.
Great Vid, don't you think it would be a good idea to add some 2 x 4 or in the corners and center of the box for stability?
Plus the caps will be able to sit on them without turning in.
great job, we have a bunch of pallets and I will be building these.
Brilliant, thank you. I am going to try this. Great details
Wow! You are amazing... being able to do all those things like a pro. I wish I could work my small garden like yours, even on a small scale. :) Thank you for the tutorial.
As'salaamu anlaykum
thanks so much for this wonderful tutorial
Niice! I have to build some for my garden!
Thank you for such an informative DIY video. They look so beautiful once assembled. These raised beds add both class and style to your back yard for almost little to no money I love how the stain turned out on them. I found a tutiorial on Pintrest for building garden pallet furniture. I will pair the two to makw my creation. How impressive. Thank you for sharing.
Michelle Molden-Coleman, could you please share with me the pallet furniture tutorial?
This has to be one of the best tutorials, if not the best, I've watched yet. To the point not to much talking just to the point.
My word. You are super awesome. I love learning from a Lady. Thank you for sharing.
Watch Larry Haun, "The very efficient carpenter" videos, and you'll learn some excellent timber skills !
Just imagining here: I would cap it with wider board and reinforce under the cap every 16 inches so I could sit on the cap to tend/harvest.
I absolutely love your raised beds. They are beautiful even if they're empty!
Best explanation of every task involved. Great job! Thank you!
Screwing into end-grain isn't strong. You should always screw through side-grain into side-grain. Easiest to illustrate with the cross-braces...screw down through the rails into the cross-piece instead of through the side into the end-grain of the cross-piece. If you screw into end-grain, it will pull out eventually when the board gets soft from moisture. You should also join the corners with a 2x2 and then screw into the side of the boards rather than into the end-grain. A small amount of extra work that will result in a much higher structural stability and years of happy gardening! A great video...thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips!
thanks for this added insight :) looking forward to creating my own.
Thanks for the extra tips as I am currently building my garden beds.
Thanks , super. So fun to learn more.
Cross cutting on your table saw like you do scares me to death, thank goodness you weren't injured. Clamp a 'leader' board to your fence, in front of the blade then measure, then cut board with miter gauge so that you will never 'pinch' the wood and suffer 'kickback'. Good looking project !!!!
I saw the same thing with the table saw....lol. Basic safety, use the saw that best suites the purpose. Skill saw to cut off the pallet, chop saw to cut the rest; could cut 2-3 or more at the same time, too. The project is nice.
that was my first thought...
I got to about 3:00 when I started getting nervous about that table saw and by 3:25 I was heading down here to the comment section to see who else noticed the danger of cutting like that on the table saw. Good advice Mark W.
I gotta say though, that's some impressive table sawing if you didn't bind or kickback any wood with all the times you've done that. I could never have that level of muscle control, and I'm an experienced handyman.
Same here I cringed as well. The raise beds are cool but the improper use of the table saw could cost someone the loss of a digit or maybe even their life.
I don't even understand what this means - which is why I shouldn't be using a table saw. :) The sawing is the part that I find most intimidating, mainly safety, but, also, saws aren't cheap. In any case, Jen is amazing, the beds are terrific, and this video is very inspiring.
Great video! Will be definitely using this for my patches in the future!
Great job there, i have been thinking of a cheaper way of making beds on the free space behind the house, thanks for the PALLET CONCEPT.... totally rocks...... Cheers
Skip all that wasted time on the table saw. After you cut the boards from the pallet fasten them to the back brace pieces, snap a chalk line and run a circular saw to cut off all the uneven pieces. just the way deck builders do when building a deck for your house. BIG time saver.
Genius!! You're a master of efficiency.
Brilliant Services can you do a demo?
I'll find one today after work, they are all over the place on youtube.
... or do that when you are cutting them off the pallet, then they will already be the right length.
E. V. look up the video "Deck Trimming" that shows what I'm talking about.
I would not recommend using the table saw for those cuts while using the fence. You can use it but the fence should be removed and a miter gauge should be used. The material is longer then wide so it could easily twist between the fence and blade causing it to fly backwards, you could have a serious injury.
Great tutorial! You came up with a really attractive design and made it simple and also sturdy. I'm hoping to expand my veggie garden and this would be the perfect way to do it without having to remove a lot of sod. Thank you, Jen!
Thank you :) Enjoy making your new beds!
Thank you so much,, and the photos with the table saw and all the little details are much appreciated, yes, some people know how to do all that, but you were brilliant!
I have a balcony 😭😭 But great video, Jen!!!
You can still do a lot on a balcony, but yeah maybe the pallet raised beds would be too heavy.
Lila Cagliolo you can still grow in a balcony, all you have to do is put a bottom on the raised bed
Lila - You can still grow stuff on a balcony, just make your planter smaller, put a bottom on it, put some drainage holes and fill, you can grow some Tomatoes or Flowers whatever you want. Also you could have some legs on it and make it waist high to save on bending.
Barry (ENG)
Deeper and thinner make doors in the exposed sides and grow potatoes. Doors allow for the harvesting of the taters without removing the plant for continual growing.
I'm afraid they would become subteranian termite food here in Fl. A colony will form in any wood left in contact with the soil
What material would you use instead? I'm in FL too
If you were to finish the end grain on all your boards, including the cap, and just a quick coat to the underside of the cap to repel moisture, your raised beds would last a lot longer. The wood may have been treated for pallet user but by cutting the boards out, you circumvented that treatment and left your wood vulnerable to rot and warp. Your unprotected inside braces will be gone in 2-3 years. Also, decomposing material pulls nitrogen from the soil so you may want to add a dusting of Nitrogen fertilizer to the top of your composting vegetation so it doesn't pull it from your soil and rob the plants' nutritional needs... Otherwise, quite an enchanting video! Well done, Jolly good, and all the rest!!! Hyrum, Sherri's faithful hubby. ;-)
Love it, will definitely use these instructions to make mine. Looks really professional! Thank you.
That's what I call "recycling" . Cool
Mother Fynest you mean repurposing.
Damn! This video is just awesome! Very informative. I am going to use this exact idea, in Mar '18 when I start gardening in our new house. (New Jersey). The presenter is sexy! Beauty and brains together is a rarity these days.
Careless Whispers start yet?
gh0stsm0ke haha prolly didn't even buy a house.. just commenting for attention!
God bless you. Nice video, great ideas using the pallets. Peace be with you. Amen
Amazing and you are brilliant! So as your hubby. Thank you for sharing it!😘