Best Choice Products 8x4x2ft Outdoor Metal Raised Garden Bed, Deep Root Planter Box for Vegetables, Flowers, Herbs, and Succulents w/ 478 Gallon Capacity - Gray

This is a preliminary 5 star review. I like the look, it was a straightforward assembly. So glad they included the stabilizer pieces to keep it rectangular. One warning that I had read beforehand from an Amazon contributor - There are 6 panels - 2 of them (the end panels) are a few inches shorter than the 4 side panels. Don't mix them up !! Make a mental note of this if you order. I say preliminary review because I have ALMOST filled it to the top, haven't planted anything and I hope it lasts for years, fingers are crossed. Another tip, look on you tube for how to effective fill large raised garden beds. It has a 64 cubic foot capacity. If you bought 40 lb. bags of top soil (at .75 cu ft each), you would need over 80 bags! People suggest using things like rotted logs, branches, twigs, dead vegetation, leaves, straw, peatmoss, etc. to fill it up to a least a foot. (I did). Then I layered top soil, bagged manure, and garden soil. Even doing this it cost me $150 to fill it. 64 cu ft is BIG !!!!

These are very well made and easy to put together. It really helps to have 2 people to put them together. I'm sure 1 person could do it but it is hard to hold the sides at the correct angle so that you can feed the screw through the slots and put the wingnut on at the same time. We are very happy with how they turned out. They seem extremely sturdy once put together. I put 5 indeterminate tomato plants in one bed and 4 determinate cherry tomato plants in the other, along with 8 pepper plants. So much easier to plant in a raised bed as opposed to kneeling on the ground. Wish I would have purchased them years ago. Will buy 2 more next season.

I have put together several of these from different brands. They are all tedious, for sure. The panels of these are of thicker gauge and the powder coat is of good quality. It will scratch however, so you need to use some care. I put this one together during a breezy, beautiful 70 degree day. One thing to be aware of is that the darker colors will get hot. I reached down to pick up a panel and dropped it because it was so hot. Got my infrared thermometer and the panel was almost 150 degrees! I had just put together a competitor's planter box and they had included a pair of gloves so I was very grateful for that. This would be a five star review but I took off a star because wingnuts. So many wingnuts! I always set the screws loosely and use my drill with a socket to tighten and it goes so fast! But this one...80 wingnuts. All hand tightened. Ugh! Otherwise, it's nice.

I opened this up and it had bubble wrap between each piece. It had 4 corner protectors on the inside of the box. Nothing was scratched and it had EXTRA screws and wing nuts that were shrink wrapped with heavy plastic they weren't going anywhere. NO plastic film to peal off. It was so easy to put together and it looks fantastic. There are many colors and the color is exactly like the picture.

We get so many compliments on these Huge planter boxes. They are a bit tedious to put together with all the screws and pieces but totally worth it once you are done! They have stood up to the weather in Florida and are a great addition to our yard

These are extremely well-made raised planters! Nice heavy duty steel, re-enforcement braces top and bottom in four locations. The powder coated paint will last for many, many years. When assembled, they are very sturdy! It took me about three hours to put each one together. I will not lie to you, it is very tedious work with a lot of bending, kneeling, and crouching to get the unit assembled with 112 bolts and wing nuts each. The actual assembly itself is very simple and straight forward. My wife and I are in our 60's and we needed an option that brings the plants higher up so we do not have to do so much bending and kneeling. These planters will do that for us and as you can see... they are absolutely beautiful! As hard as this was (for me) to do, We are going to order another one in a different size for another area we plant vegetables.The only concern I have with these are the four corners where they attach to end and first side panel on each side. There are gaps where every line of corrugation occurs. Since these gaps are on the inside as well, it is possible that the potting soil could wash out of them when there are heavy rains. I will need to figure out a way to seal these corners, but other than that, no other concerns and I highly recommend these.

This is heavy and difficult for one person to maneuver. I am also disappointed that the instruction book gives a lead warning but the info when I ordered did not. Not sure I am happy with this planter. It is sturdy; will have to see after A growing season or 2. I would return it if my time had not run out.

They were easy but time-consuming to assemble. I was OK with that, because they need to hold a lot of soil/weight. The color was nice, too. I already have plants growing in them and they look very neat and respectable.