Hi Laurie, we are glad you found the tutorial so helpful! We have made raised beds of all shapes and sizes so it is really up to the space that you have and the design you are going for. Good luck!

Hi Colin, it looks like the same company offers a product called Fence-Seal which may be more in line with what you are looking for although I haven’t compared the two products side by side to see the exact differences between them, although it looks like all of their products are non-toxic. I guess it just depends on how big of a fence you plan on building, were you going to use 4×4 or metal fence posts to create a 5-7 foot fence? For in ground posts, whether they are metal or wood, most people would use concrete in the post holes and you wouldn’t worry about sealing the wood below ground. Reach out if you have any other questions and good luck with your project!

Slightly off topic ish. But question about the garden seal product. I am putting in a fence around my raised bed garden. Would you use the garden seal as an in ground preservative for the fence posts or go another route? Unsure if typical in ground preservatives are a good idea being near the garden.

Thank you!

Hi Laurelei, we created the trellises with wooden frames by using 2×2 redwood and attaching sections of concrete remesh to the back and affixing the remesh to the wood with wide headed screws, from there you attach the side lengths (which you leave longer in length than the remesh screen) to the back of your raised beds with screws. We have an article all about how to make your own trellises here. We had this setup in our previous property because we had chickens that free ranged the backyard, this kept them off the patio and from eating our veggies in the raised beds. Hope that helps and good luck!

That makes sense. Thank you so much for such a quick response!

Hi Hamid, we typically attach the hardware cloth to the beds themselves as to ensure that there aren’t any openings in between the cloth and the raised bed that gophers may be able to get into with time. We typically build our raised beds to be 4 feet wide from edge to edge which is the perfect size for 4 foot hardware cloth to attach to the edges, you just need to cut off the length of cloth to fit the lengths of your raised beds. If your raised beds are 2 or 3 foot wide, you can always get hardware cloth in a similar width so it will attach easiest to fit the width. Hope that helps and reach out if you have any other questions.