Easy breezy and you ll have a beautiful cedar planter box in only a few hours.
Cedar planter box building.
Make sure to use wood rated for outdoor use like cedar.
These hidden fasteners sit inside low angled holes bored with a special jig and bit.
They re simple cost effective and give you a huge bang for the buck.
Once the holes are made assembly is a snap.
Diy cedar planter box.
It requires few tools and can be accomplished in a day.
This will make 1 cedar planter.
Next cut out a wooden board for the bottom of the box and drill a few holes through it for drainage.
All you need to build this is a saw miter saw circular saw hand saw and a drill.
16 cedar picket fence boards cut 15 1 4 inch long.
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Follow our step by step tutorial to make your own cedar planter box.
To grow your container garden build this diy planter box.
Then use a drill and galvanized screws to attach the ends of the planks so they form a long rectangular box.
I conveniently ordered them online and picked them up at the store.
I have been using cedar picket fence posts from home depot to make my planter boxes.
Wooden planters are one of my favorite things to build.
Store bought planters can range in the 100 s of dollars but give me a few cedar fence pickets and i ll make you a gorgeous planter box in an afternoon.
To build a wooden planter box start by cutting some wooden planks so you have 2 that are 2 feet long and 2 that are 4 feet long.
Cedar planter box plans.
They are very affordable i made 7 very large 4 ft by 12 ft planter boxes for under 300 dollars.
Want to build an easy planter box.