Customer Reviews for Outdoor Living Today 8 ft. x 12 ft. Garden in a Box

I could not be happier with this kit, took my wife a few autumn weekends to assemble, but thats due to our medicre skills. The instructions we're probably the best written I've ever experienced and now just need to add compost, garden soil and dream of next spring's garden vegetables knowing I'm safe from the rabbit varmints. Thanks a bunch !

My mom loved her present

Easy to build. I did it myself took a couple of days. Definitely want to make sure it is level.

Product was as discribed, easy to follow instructions. Looks great.

We were under prepared for this venture. I would recommend more emphasis on site preparedness. Once we got to the actual assembly of the structure, it did not take long. Filling with soil was a back breaking job, (would recommend hiring 4 young individuals to install the soil). The plastic hinges are not too impressive (we will see how long these last).

This kit is LARGE - 350 lbs shipping weight - shipped via truck from British Columbia, so it took a week to get to NC. Instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the panels are put together well. It says it will take about 5 hours to assemble, it took me about double that, but still not difficult. The hardware was short of a few 8 x 1" screws, but I had plenty of them, so no problem. The use of a power drill/screwdriver is highly recommended, and you might want to get a 4" long 1/8" drill bit so you don't have to angle too much some of the pilot holes. The only thing I did not like much were the plastic hinges, they look like they will fatigue-fail in short order, so I replaced them with steel hinges I had lying around. The beds are 33" deep, a lot of topsoil, so we used 15" of clean straw as the base, followed by a layer of untreated cardboard (from the kit boxes), a layer of mulch and then the topsoil. We will top it off as the base layers compost and compact, and in a couple of years we will have a nice compost layer that can be mixed. The finished garden looks beautiful!

Love my new raised garden bed!!

We absolutely love this item. Was very easy to assemble and looks great

Easy to assemble. Looks great.

The quality and packaging are great. The manufacturer is also very professional. They called to arrange delivery and gave several helpful tips on how to assemble and fill. The instructions re very thorough, the hardware is also packaged and labeled well. There are also helpful videos they will direct you to. All-in-all we are very happy so far. Its definitely a weekend project when you factor the ground prep, assembly, fill, etc. We enjoyed putting it together though.

It was very easy to put together. Everything you needed was there.

The raised Garden bed came as described. Beautiful cedar wood! was easy to put together. Would recommend in a heartbeat

My mother bought this product and for 1700 dollars I told her to return it. I went to my local sawmill and got all the wood for under 80 dollars and I got screws for 18 dollars and you don’t even half to predrill the holes. But I still spent 50$ on dirt.

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Loved everything Packaging was perfectInstructions were great. Was easy to assemble. Plastic hinges seemed cheesy but they worked.

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There wasn’t enough screws for install of this product.

Looks beautiful!

easy set-up and sturdy. love it!

Yes, this worked really well and exceeds our expectations.

Very easy assembly and light weight even after build. I built it on my rear porch and moved it into place with the help of two people. Looking forward to many years of use.

The assembly was more difficult than I hoped, and when soil was added there is a mild bulging outward. However, it works well and looks nice, and makes it easy to drape shade cloth or netting to keep out unwanted heat or critters. My plants are growing wonderfully.

This is a beautiful, well made garden bed. Is was missing 4 brackets but that is the only negative. We are really happy with it. Great too that it is made on the USA . And Home Depot had by far the best pricing

Not Happy This is not a kit as expected. You just get the wood and have to predrill your own holes to assemble. Wood came with huge chunks out of it, did NOT happen during shipment as there was no broken chunks of wood inside the boxes(they packed it that way)--Not to mention once you order this from Home Depot and expect them to deliver it, You get an email from a company in Canada, telling you to call them or they wont ship it until you do. Then you also have to call another part of their company to set up a specific delivery time frame or they wont deliver. Then they were late in the time frame and hubby late for work waiting for this heavy delivery. Its a drop-ship product that I feel Home Depot should have mentioned when they sold to me.

great

Not hard assemble, but hard to keep square. Could be sturdier.

I bought 2- stuck them together using the excess panels. Love it

A bit difficult to construct as I have no experience in putting things like this together. Paid for someone to assist me.

I bought the 8x12, it came in 4 boxes. I was pleasantly surprised that after inventory of the parts all was included, nothing missing. Lots of parts but all in tact. Pretty easy to assemble, once you have the ground prepared and leveled. Not sure I bought their suggestion it could be done in 5 hours, maybe if you had a couple of people working it, and that excludes ground prep But all in all I am very happy with the purchase and the product. I do worry about how long it will last being in the weather and in constant contact with ground and soil. We shall see. Really the only thing I would suggest for improvement is that all the hinges for the trellis and the gate are plastic. I might replace with metal...but I will see how the plastic holds up before I do that. I would purchase again.