The 4’ x 4’ Raised Garden Bed is perfect to provide an easy introduction to the joys and benefits of growing your own vegetables and flowers. Youngsters especially will benefit from this introduction to gardening; getting their hands dirty in the fresh soil, planting veggies or flowers, tending them, and seeing them mature until ready to harvest. With 16 square feet of available planting area to develop your skills, there is ample room to grow a good variety of your favourite veggies, herbs, or, flowers: from luscious tomatoes to fragrant herbs or a complete salsa or spaghetti sauce garden. Access our Know Grow Guide which shows how to grow the same amount of produce in only one-quarter of the garden space compared to conventional gardening and much more extremely helpful information for gardeners of all levels of expertise! The guide’s Plant, Friends, and Enemies chart shows you how to mix and match your plantings, listing all plants that happily coexist together by height and compatibility and how to space them apart. By adding our stack and extending the style Veggie Wall, to your raised bed you will increase the growing area by 200% creating perfect growing conditions to cultivate cucumbers, pole beans, or flowering vines like clematis, morning glory, and scarlet runner beans. The durable framework of stainless steel with nylon mesh netting is strong enough to support heavy fruits and vegetables like beef-steak tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons. With no need for bending or crouching, harvesting and maintenance are a breeze. Rabbits, dogs, cats, and other garden pests can decimate your hard-won crop of ready-to-eat produce overnight. Protect your raised garden bed with our Animal Barrier. It slots into the corner and side joints of your raised bed to create a tough barrier to keep out marauding garden pests. The gated stainless-steel frame and heavy-duty rigid plastic mesh are built to last and won’t flop, rust or rot. The easy-access gate makes it simple to tend to your garden without any leaning or reaching. Purchase multiple kits to expand the protection to any dimension, or stack to any height. Include a frame-it worm box to this deep raised bed to create a composter. By adding chopped leaves, grass clippings, semi-rotted compost, and mealtime left-overs to the soil, you will encourage earthworms to take up residence, thrive, and fertilize your raised garden soil with their castings and aerate your soil as they tunnel around. Your kit comes with everything you need except the soil and plants. Each modular kit includes composite boards and snap-lock stacking brackets. The open-channel boards trap air, providing insulation to your soil, and regulating your soil temperature. The warm soil in spring means you can plant earlier and because the soil remains warm later into fall it extends your growing season. The insulated board walls also keep your soil from drying out which reduces the need for water. Stacking brackets allow you to install the additional layers of your garden just by inserting the stakes into the brackets below. Our patented snap-lock brackets slide onto each end of a board and fasten securely with snap-lock buttons. As your garden needs and expertise grow you can add on to your modular raised bed at any time by purchasing additional kits, boards, or snap-lock stacking brackets to stack or extend your garden. Curved composite boards are also available to incorporate into your design Brackets pivot 270 degrees, allowing endless design options, or, by accessing our Design It All 3D tool you can create a garden of your own unique design. Did you know? You can grow up to 16 different plants inside your 4’ x 4’ garden using “Square Foot Gardening” techniques. There are countless books and online resources available to guide you in this rewarding method of gardening.