The frames themselves are fairly simple. Just regular lumber screwed together. DO NOT USE TREATED LUMBER – the chemicals will leach into the soil and contaminate the plants. The wood is sitting on TOP of the ground, so it should hold up for a long time. The fencing posts ARE treated (we couldn’t find non treated ones), but they are 0n the OUTSIDE of the framing (and aren’t sunk into the ground) so leaching shouldn’t be a problem.

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This isn’t a photo from OUR garden.  We don’t have a lasagna garden.   But it’s so closely related to Raised Bed Gardening that you can’t help but run across it when you’re studying raised beds. First of all, you aren’t growing lasagna.   The name comes from the layering of materials, just as you layer a [...]

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