Easy-Build Large Vegetable Planter

Here’s a vegetable planter that is strong, easy to build, and large enough for a number of garden projects.

- Max Stone

Tools and supplies

• A small and large square, protractor and clamp
• Cordless drill
• 10mm wood drill bit
• 3m tape measure
• Scissors
• Staple gun
• Two trestles will help if you don’t have a workbench.

Materials list

• 2 end panels; trapezoid 220mm wide, 536mm long edge, 198 short edge, 52.5° angle
• 2 end panels; isosceles triangle 198mm long side, 163mm short sides, 75° angle
• 4 legs; 900mm to centre of 37.5°angled cut end

For supplies, you’ll need three 20 x 220mm 2.4m pine boards, two 32 x 67mm 1.8m pine boards, 28 6 x 50mm screws, two 10 x 100mm bolts with nuts, and four large washers. To finish, you’ll need to sand the wood, apply a suitable weatherproof coating and line the interior with 2 x 1m porous landscape membrane. One 10kg bag of stones for bottom drainage and two bags of 60dm potting soil is sufficient to fill the planter.