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Blue barrel 55 gallon barrel garden planters.
These can be placed on wooden frames to raise them off the ground to make gardening more accessible for elderly gardeners or those with limited mobility.
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Apr 18 2017 raised garden made from plastic blue barrels and easy on your back.
Cut a plastic 55 gallon barrel in half lengthways and you can use it to create a couple of raised planters for your garden.
Using second hand 55 gallon food safe plastic barrels and some scrap wood that i cleaned up on the planer i was able to create some very basic planters for my backyard garden.
Make a raised garden bed to use outdoors or in a greenhouse.
We ve used raised garden beds for years to grow watermelons squash tomatoes peppers eggplants corn and strawberries.
Just make sure that you collect plastic barrels that food grade made from hdpe and have contained only food type items.
Evie strawberries will be going in the ot.
If you re looking for 55 gallon drum projects barrels can be great for raised bed gardens and earthboxes.
2 turn the barrel on its side and drill a 1 2 inch hole on the line.
Ozark beauty strawberries in the full barrel.
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If you love these barrel ideas check out all the awesome things you can make for your homestead using 55 gallon metal barrels.
Total build time was roughly 4 hours with a couple mistakes in there.
Make several marks around the perimeter of the barrel with a felt tip pen and then connect the marks with a line.
Rain barrel w planter at walmart and save.
If you have the time tools and skills to do the work you can have a raised bed garden up ready in a day.
Shop for rain barrels in garden center.