About 10 years ago, my mom had to get hip replacements, and so around that time she couldn't do in-ground
gardening as much as she wanted. So, I built her a couple raised beds out of old
pallets. She really uses them. Her kohlrabi puts mine to shame ...the secret -- patrol for kale worms early, and
water with
chicken poop tea!
Her Christmas present is two new raised beds, installed in the location of the original ones I built for her. It's hard to replace her beds because she always has them planted. Fortunately she let one bed go, so I was able to easily move the soil over from that (falling over bed) to the new ones. Then I added some of my potting soil to enrich. Although, her
chicken poop tea does better than anything I have.
I am refining these raised beds. 1st I put down rubber mats to prevent weeds, then a layer of mulch, then rocks or bricks to keep the pallets off the ground. Then I put another rubber mat over the pallets to keep them dry. I got a bunch of tree pots from a landscape company, and those work great and come out at about waist high to my mom when sitting on two pallets.
Watch in the pictures for perhaps the better way to support the pallets on the rocks