BUILDING MY FIRST RAISED GARDEN BED! #VegoGarden Raised Beds at the New Farm! | Backyard Flower Farm

Hello everyone and welcome back to the garden. Today I'm doing something very exciting. I'm making my first ever raised bed. This is the veg-o garden I guess is how I'm going to be saying it. This was sent to me free of charge in exchange for a review so this is a sponsored video. Full disclosure there. But I think I'm going to put this together and do my best to give my honest opinion about it. This is the first time I've ever had a raised bed in the past. I've been kind of hesitant to try these metal raised beds and the main real reason for that is just I figured they would be very sharp and kind of dangerous but I saw that this one kind of had a rubber coating around the rim you'll see a little bit later so I was interested to try when they reached out to me. Unpacking this box you'll see I have some different pieces. I have these curved pieces and I have two different sizes of flat pieces here coming out of the box and a very small instruction booklet. So should be easy enough. There are some brazing rods in here also to support the bed after it has been completed. The box was pretty heavy but everything came intact and in good shape. I have my hardware and my screws and my nuts and stuff in that other bag so I was eager to get started. The first thing the website claims that you can put these together in about 50 minutes so of course I had my timer going and the sun was going down unfortunately so I was kind of racing the clock. The first step in the instructions is to peel off this metal or this sheeting this plastic sheeting protective sheeting off of the panels. Now to do that I had to take my gloves off because I couldn't grip the panels and the plastic with my gloves. It is at this point that I cut myself pretty bad on this sharp metal. I was being extra careful. I was doing my best not to and I managed to put a pretty good gash in my pinky which I was not completely happy about. Being totally honest didn't want to show you guys the bloody mess but it wasn't great. I definitely they do write careful this is sharp on the front of the instructions but I think it should be written even more places. I guess I'm a pretty clumsy person sometimes but admittedly I think peeling off this protective plastic was the most difficult part of this entire process. I realize it is protecting our protecting the panels during shipment but it's really on their good so I think this was the most time-consuming part of this project and admittedly if somebody can put these together in 50 minutes I am really impressed with you. The whole process for me ended up taking just under two hours. You know I don't actively build a lot of things so maybe that's why but just something to consider. The next thing I did is lay out all the pieces and how they would go. Now during this step it is important to note that there are two different sizes. I was building the nine and a half by two and a half feet bed so I needed to lay them out with two longs on each side and two shorts on each side and in the instructions there is a map or a guide that shows you the layout but they are only illustrated. They aren't labeled with the different panels A, B, A, B in the correct order so you really really have to pay attention in the instructions. Also the bag of hardware is all mixed together. I think it would be a little bit more convenient if they were separated out between the different types. For example you want to put the caps on the top as I'm doing here. The top two rows put together and it's just the nuts in the bottom two rows but not really a big deal just a minor gripe there. So the first thing I did is put the side panels together just finger tight. Later of course I'll go back and tighten all those up with a little wrench that was provided. I ended up not needing that screwdriver. I just had it just in case I needed something. Putting these panels together was super easy. Of course during this process though you have to be super careful because those edges are sharp. Ideally you can use gloves but like I said my gloves were a little bit too bulky and I had trouble gripping things with the gloves so it's kind of like a catch-22 I guess. But the overall assembly is super easy even if you don't have any kind of building experience whatsoever. The process is super easy. I don't think anybody would have too much of a problem with that. After you kind of build all the side panels you just connect them to the curved edges the end pieces and secure a bracing rod in the middle to kind of hold them up and keep that nice and strong looking good. The edges of this bed are 17 inches tall which I find is a perfect depth. I was honestly quite surprised by how deep that actually is in terms of growing plants. I have not filled this bed yet but it is going to require a lot of soil which I think I'm going to have to definitely dip into my compost for. This specific bed has 10 different configurations that you can put together to make the garden bed that kind of fits into your own space. Other facts about this product specifically this is all recycled materials which I really love and they have a 20 year lifespan. It is food safe so I don't have to worry about that. The color that I selected here is called olive green and I think it was a very good fit for my yard and overall I could not be more pleased. There was a little bit of a learning curve putting this together but now that I knew what I was doing I'm confident I could do it really easily. I love that black strip of kind of rubber that goes around the edges. I'm not too worried about you know cutting myself now that it is all together and in place. I think this is going to be a great addition to the garden and I'm really excited. I am especially so excited to grow things like lisianthus in this or other flower bed flower bulbs that need weed suppression. I think this is going to be totally awesome. So big thanks to this website. I'll put a link down below you can find their products for sponsoring this video and letting me try out this raised bed flower bed. I am so excited. I think it's going to be totally awesome. Again thank you for your support and watching this video too. Any bit of support helps this channel so much. Without you it genuinely would not be possible especially as I embark on this new flower farm mission. So thank you so much. I hope the weather is beautiful wherever you are. You deserve it and I'll talk to you all later. Bye!