Please note:
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We sell these kits for pickup only in Princeton. Please email us to arrange to pick up your order. There are four 8-foot and two 4-foot boards in a kit; they fit easily into most hatchback vehicles.
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You will need an electric drill or screwdriver to put the kit together. The kit includes a special bit to match the screws provided.
Cedar bed
Bountiful Boxes offers a simple product: A kit to make a 4×8 raised garden bed. One optional add-on is a picture-frame cap to give the bed a finished look and a place to sit.
CEDAR BED KIT with white oak corner posts ($270 for standard 11″ height; $360 for tall 16.5″ height)
Our cedar kits offer a refined, smooth look with a light brown color that fades to a handsome grey. Cedar is naturally rot- and insect-resistant. The oak corner posts wear like iron. The standard kit is 11 inches tall and weighs about 60 pounds. We can make the kit taller by adding another board. Beans, tomatoes, even carrots all will have plenty of room for their roots with our standard bed. The main reasons for a taller bed would be aesthetic or ergonomic. Some people have ordered taller beds so they don’t have to bend over as much. [Note: If price is an issue, please consider following our free do-it-yourself instructions.]
Here’s an example of the cap on a pair of beds I made for a friend last year. (Note these beds are 3′ wide, which is one foot narrower than our standard kit.)
CEDAR CAP KIT
I’ve worked out an addition to the kit that will allow gardeners to install a cap without special tools or skills. The cap is made from the same material that make up the sides of the bed: 5/4×6″ cedar decking. The caps come with mitered corners that fit together like a picture frame and are secured to the bed with stainless steel screws. The cap covers the corner posts for a neat finished look and is just wide enough to sit on while poking seeds into the ground or pulling weeds.
Want a size or configuration not listed here? Please write me.
Detail of a Bountiful Boxes cap, mitered and secured with stainless steel finish-head screws.
FREE DIY INSTRUCTIONS
Live outside the Princeton, NJ, area or prefer making things yourself? Our free DIY instructions take you through making a kit from scratch.
Here are 2-year-old cedar beds at Riverside Elementary School, planted and tended by garden educator Dorothy Mullen.
Here are 1-year-old fir beds at Princeton High School, a project initiated by teacher Matt Wilkinson and supported by the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative.
How many boxes in a kit? I want about 4 boxes.
Hi James – A kit is a single 4×8 bed. It consists of 4 8′ boards and 4 4′ boards, four corner posts and screws. The boards are cut and predrilled for placement of the screws. If you did decide to buy four boxes, I would offer them at a 10% discount. Feel free to email at steven@bountifulboxes.com. Thank you for your interest. Steven
The best!