Pro tip: skip the fancy raised beds, my $60 version outgrew the $400 one

Karen Hill · 2026-09-30T14:50:03.529182+00:00

My neighbor Dale in Tucson told me last spring to forget the cedar kits and just use two old horse troughs from the feed store, and I thought he was being cheap. So I did half and half, and by August the trough tomatoes were taller than the kit ones, which cost me about $400 at the big box store. Dale's been gardening in that same dirt for 20 years, so maybe I should listen more. Has anyone else found the cheap setup actually beating the nice one?

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