Best Choice Products 8x4x2ft Outdoor Metal Raised Garden Bed, Deep Root Planter Box for Vegetables, Herbs & Flowers, 478-Gallon Capacity, 100% Non Toxic Materials - Dark Green

Absolutely love this raised garden bed! It was easy to put together, very sturdy, and looks beautiful in my yard. The size is perfect for growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers without taking up too much space. I also like that it gives plenty of depth for roots to grow properly. Great quality for the price and definitely worth it if you’re starting a garden or upgrading your outdoor space. Highly recommend!

I got the 6x3x2. I plan on ordering a second one right away. Plus we're gonna do two of the 8ft now on the other side. How much soil do you need? ALOT. Somewhere around 15x 40lb bags. So be prepared for that. This is not going to fill up easily. We're talking two feet deep and it's big. You can fill it with logs and shredded paper at the bottom layer if you don't have straw. Pros: Cheap but not too cheap(and yes, there is cheaper) Metal so it will never rot Sturdy once you've got every screw in place The increased depth makes it possible to grow anything in it Holds a HUGE amount of crops by square foot gardening methods Looks beautiful. Can't complain when it looks this good for sheet metal. Wing nuts makes this job easy, no socket required to hold the nuts. Rubber ribbing that fits the top comes with it if you want it installed, it's not on in my pictures. If you need to replace it, it's the same stuff used as ,"car door protector u shape rubber seal." Cons: Cheaper than the big brands that come with crazy angle brackets and crossmembers and riser blocks so there's not a tremendous amount of quality from this. The stakes that come with it are garbage. Get some round head plastic stakes and drive them into the peg holes on the corners or this thing is going to fly away out in a field if it's not densely filled. Layer your soil like pictured. 1)Throw down cardboard, not plastic underneath this thing. Lots and lots of cardboard. Plastic will break down and turn into muck, you don't want that. Just use degradeable cardboards. If you ever have to remove this bed, you can just drag it all out. No picking up plastic pieces. 2)Take round 2 inch logs or branches and layer them everywhere so this thing drains. Do not put soil on the bottom of this raised bed!!! The bed will shift and raise up above the soil line and look stupid with time. 3)Add sticks, lots of sticks of all shapes and sizes or straw. If you don't have straw, use shredded paper mulch like I do. This creates an air layer that will break down with time but allows air and water travel at the start of an ecosystem. 4)Add composted manure(it is way cheaper than bagged soil and has a nice sand mix to it, to fill this thing with topsoil would be quite alot of money) 5)Add your own compost(the clumpier the better) 6)Add garden soil 7)Top with topsoil and vermiculite, pack it gently with a 2x4. Don't fill your bed with ,"potting," soil or the sides will collapse in wind or your plants will fall out from soft root systems, just the top layer should be topsoil. Spread mulch over this as your plants come up.(optional, some people like to see the topsoil) Tip, never empty this bed. You'll destroy whatever ecosystem you've built. If your soil looks dead then remove final crop of plants, remove one to two inches of soil and throw it into your compost. Replace that same depth with fresh soil. If you're using this as a raised bed for ferns and flowers, use your flower mix in place of garden soil. If you don't want to remove any soil in the future, use a powdered water soluble fertilizer and you're done. Raised beds are alot easier than digging ever was.

I bought my first set of these raised garden beds three years ago. Their color has not faded, and they have not rusted. However, they are bulging at the sides. I filled them to six inches from the top, which is now ten inches after settling. And although the body and the screws have not rusted, the support bar that goes across to keep the sides from collapsing has definitely rusted (it comes with two bars to hold the sides in firmly, but one of the bars is under the dirt and I can’t see what it’s doing). I did order more because they have held up well and the sale price was irresistible. But I do wish they came with four support bars instead of two, and I wish the bars were rust proof. Easy to assemble. No bottom, but not needed. Throw down a piece of landscaping fabric under it before you fill it. Keeps the weeds and ants out, and promotes drainage.

These are strong, easy to assemble, raised planters. They come in various sizes and colors to customize any area of a yard or garden.

1 year update — these garden boxes have worked out very well. I have them on a slight slope and dug a bit in to the slope on the back side of each box to ensure each box is level. I currently have 7 of the 6’x3’x2’ boxes. I assembled them myself and moved them to the garden on my own. Not terribly difficult but an extra set of hands would have been helpful. The boxes feel a little flimsy upon being built but once they were places & filled, they were fine. I am careful not to lean on the edges of the boxes as they would surely bend. Also, the support bars are very lightweight and bend very easily, if you’re not careful. As a side note, I did not use the rubber edging/trim that comes w/each box. I can’t imagine it would stay in place & I saw no benefit. I placed my boxes in 2 rows, the rows and boxes are all 3’ apart & the spacing worked out very well. It was easy to maneuver around each of the boxes. I added a hog panel arched ‘trellis’ between the 2 rows of beds. I did not need to use t-posts to secure the hog panel as it is wedged between 2 of the garden boxes (end-to-end). As the boxes are a pretty good size, it took quite a lot to fill them & I followed the ‘lasagna’ method for filling w/cardboard on the bottom, then branches & twigs and leaves & lawn clippings. Then a layer of compost, more grass clippings and finally a mix of garden & top soil. Once planted, I kept the beds mulched all season long w/fresh layers of grass clippings. The boxes are open to the ground on the bottom & I had no issues with drainage. Also, the use of grass clippings as mulch helped minimize the amount of hand watering I needed to do (we did not use any chemicals on our lawn!). Initially, I used hay as mulch for a couple of my boxes & spent the entire season picking weeds from those beds (lesson learned)! The grass mulch definitely helped but I feel like I still watered a fair bit (south facing, full South Carolina sun). I made hoops from bamboo that I split & used 3 hoops per bed & covered them with netting held down w/garden staples to keep birds & other critters at bay. This worked great, even kept the deer out. I added a small compost container with a screw top lid (I cut off the bottom of the container & buried each container so the lid was at the top of the soil). Throughout the season, I added kitchen scraps… egg shells, fruit/veggie peels/skins, etc. to the containers but I think I’ll skip this step this coming season. I’ll continue to compost but will do so in my central compost setup and will amend the soil in the boxes w/compost, as needed. By the end of the growing season, I had experienced multiple inches of settling in each box, as a result of the breakdown of the components of my initial fill method. I expect I’ll add a few inches of a mix of compost, grass clippings/leaves and garden/top soil before planting my boxes this spring. I really do like these garden boxes a lot. They are functional & I am very happy with how they look & how they’re holding up. In fact, I plan to purchase one more box this spring, for a total of 8.

Easy to put together. Color exactly what we expected! Looks great all together. Good quality product. Will be ordering more when we get the room for another one.

Pleased and impressed with this product. Quality, paint, instructions, packaging, delivery, hardware all excellent. If I had to pick it would be the hardware gets "stuck" in the vacuum packaging and you have to fight to get all the wingnuts and screws out. The stabilizer bar could be stronger but should do the job. It takes some time and patience to assemble but not difficult - 2 people is almost a necessity. Overall VERY pleased.

I currently moved to the country and the closest store is a 45 minute drive. I decided to try my hand at growing my own vegetables. I wanted to go with a raised bed because we have very hard soil and a lot of rocks. I went with the bcp metal raised bed because it says it is made of 100% non toxic material which is important when planting edibles. I also liked that it came in a variety of colors. I chose the Peacock Blue to give my garden some color. It is fairly easy to put together. The hardest and most time consuming part was trying to get the lug nuts out of the packaging, they were vacuum packed in a sticky plastic. One important note that didn’t show in the instructions is that the corner panels have a hole on one end which I believe are for the metal stakes. I don’t think these stakes are worth anything as they are very small and would not be strong enough to hold it in place. I think that once the planter is full of dirt it won’t be going anywhere. While the panels are sturdy once it is put together, the middle bar is not. I actually kept bending it unintentionally while filling the box. The edges are folded over so you have a smooth surface. This helps when working the garden so there are no sharp edges to cut you. Overall, I am very happy with this raised bed and will be ordering more when I am ready to grow my garden.

We have put them in our garden for berry bushes. Love this colour, blends great in the yard. Not thick material but works great!

These are perfect for deep root vegetables for anyone who can’t make their own planter box from wood or doesn’t want to deal with them rotting.

I previously had wooden boxes along the side of my house that were rotting. Decided to purchase these to replace the wooden ones. They weren’t the exact dimensions, but were super easy to modify. Just marked them with a grease pencil, cut them with a grinding wheel and drilled some new holes. I’m super happy with how they look. The down fall to them is that I think the cross supports are a little weak. Either they should be stronger or a piece of angle should run down the front and back bolt seams and then have the cross braces. I would definitely recommend them.

I didn't get it on time and customer service was great- I got it next day after their intervention. But the product is not good- not sturdy, very easy bending, cheap made. For the same price I got other garden beds- stainless steel, tough ones , really good quality. I will keep this one s I did assemble it but I will not recommend this product.

Like the height of the garden.