Building a raised vegetable garden...with Trex?

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Hell son, just till up some of the area behind you and plant 20 full rows. Yeah, you won't need any reinforcing. Mine was 2.5 feet tall so the amount of soil and weight was significant including the 6 inches of gravel beneath it for drainage.

Our yard is massive but I want to keep this off to a corner and maintain a clean look so that it wouldn't be in conflict with neighbors' yards. Most people keep this off to a corner. There is somebody in the hood with a much larger garden, though, bricked off and probably 200-300 square feet. They even grew corn last year. It was pretty damn ghetto if I'm being honest, growing corn in a subdivisioned house. I'll call the town to complain when they start raising alpacas.

My experience with friends & family that the cost of lumber, soil & water is going to be much greater than the vegetable return, unless it act as a sand box for you to have fun in.

I don't think any of us are really doing this to save money, as vegetables are so cheap in the US. However, the cost of water is irrelevant; it's basically free for everyone in the US and watering this certainly takes less water than I use in a single shower!

I cut out the trench for some pole beans. There's a 6 foot fall from deck to ground so I'm going to dig this out and replace with better soil and hang netting from the deck. The beans will be hit from only one side with sun but it will be good exposure.

 

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i really should have worked on mine last night :/

 

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I don't think any of us are really doing this to save money, as vegetables are so cheap in the US.

Define cheap. Red peppers at Walmart are almost $2.00 a piece. That's highway robbery.

 

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Define cheap. Red peppers at Walmart are almost $2.00 a piece. That's highway robbery.

Are they hard to grow? I am going to do some green this year but I don't know if red or yellow are harder to grow. Aldi locally does sell one green, one yellow, one red for I am quite sure $2 in the summer. Their food is all stolen, though, no way there are enough margins if they buy product legally.