Starting to install Concrete Raised Beds in the Garden

Well, we've started installing the concrete raised beds into our garden area. With the right prep (not much if you watch the video), these install very easily. The design makes them suitable for smaller beds or larger ones. Each form is 4ft long and can be interlocked with others. So, you can make 4x4 beds or really long beds like we are making.
Our beds will be 32ft long and some will be slightly shorter (as we explain in the video) Like we say in the video, this project requires a decent amount of prep work but the install is straightforward.

[@redcaliber9679]

Great job , thank you

[@tenthdimension9836]

I enjoyed somebody taking this idea and actually making them out of concrete instead of the air-crete that I've seen. Can't wait to see you video when plants are growing.

[@BGP369]

So by now im assuming you have bow out issues. You can cheaply and easily resolve it by bending some 90s into rebar into an upside down U, replace the middle fiberglass spikes and span the entire rebar across from one side to the other, hammer it down into the ground, it will keep the bed parallel and halt all sagging out due to soil weight.

[@karlbrown947]

Very impressive design and good to see you're excitement and energy to live and grow like this. Keep up the great work! Interested to see how the new beds fare over the next years.

[@TheRogueUrbanHomestead]

Thanks. We’re hoping Better than the wood ones. Those only gave us 4-5 years. Year 3 we started to notice bowing and failure.

[@romangoncharuk9805]

Thanks

[@genevelis6075]

Hi Brandon, we about to make raised garden beds, changing a slope to a retaining wall in the shape of raised garden beds, where you can walk between retaining wall(s)/garden beds. What modifications you suggest to have to your garden walls to be also as a retaining wall? The wall should not exceed 4’ tall.

[@TheRogueUrbanHomestead]

I would not use these panels for a retaining wall. The way they are pinned will not hold up to the weight and water pressure experienced by a retaining wall. I would use precast retaining wall blocks or pour a reinforced concrete wall. You could stair step the slope and use the panels to make raised beds (3 sided) but I wouldn’t use the panels more than 2 high without putting reinforcement wire in them.

[@genevelis6075]

@@TheRogueUrbanHomestead thank you