This raised garden bed delivers on looks, functionality, and flexibility, and is a great starter garden for you to build on food-grade safe. For easier harvesting, try to leave about 3 feet of space on all sides so you can reach your garden from all directions to make it super-easy to run out and pick veggies for a salad. This raised garden bed works perfectly as an herb or flower garden. This raised garden bed works perfectly as an herb or flower garden. Snap-lock joints make it simple to install. Your kit comes with everything you need except the soil and plants. The insulating open-channel boards trap air, and provide insulation to your soil by keeping the soil warmer in spring and fall and cooler in summer; so you can grow for an extended period. To increase the size and dimensions of your raised garden you can purchase additional frame it all kits to stack or extend your garden. Our patented snap-lock brackets simply slide onto each end of a board and fasten securely with snap-lock buttons. Did you know? You can easily get great results from your raised garden with the 'square foot Gardening’ technique, which visualizes the garden bed in square foot sections with a different plant in each. – There are many publications on this topic. A 24" x 72" garden bed could contain 12 or more different plants.