Best Choice Products 8x2x2ft Outdoor Metal Raised Garden Bed, Rectangular Deep Root Planter Box for Vegetables, Flowers, Herbs, and Succulents w/ 239 Gallon Capacity - Terracotta

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.

Update: tried twice to start a return, each time got a message that it would need to be returned directly to seller and that labels had been emailed to me. They never were. No other way to contact the seller, Amazon gives no other options, return won't be processed until manufacturer receives the product. So, it's a product missing parts, with defective parts, and you can't return it.This thing failed in waves. First, this planter has a lot of screws, washers and wingnuts to assermble it, specifically 125 of each. Or, it's supposed to. Mine was missing the entire packet of washers. After complaining and going back and forth for a few days over email I was told they no longer had hardware for this planter and could not send me more washers. They gave me a partial credit so I could go to a hardware store and buy my own replacements. They also could not tell me the dimensions of the missing washers, but not that hard extrapolate based on the screws.I got the refund, got the washers, then went to assemble. 6 of 125 in, and I hit a problem. Screw and wingnut would fit togehter, but could not be tightened down at all. The screw wouldn't screw. Ok maybe one is a little off so I try another. Nope. Try to mix and match different screws and wingnuts. Out of a pile of 15 only 1 actually works. I'm 7/21 on the screw/wingnut pairs at this point and have had enough. This planter is just a series of metal plates with holes to assemble with hardware, and the hardware was either missing or remarkably defective. Waste of time and money. And now I get to deal with returning a large heavy awkward item that I no longer have a box for.Recommend if you have a few weeks left to get a last garden project in, but really dont' want to do it. Messing with this thing will force you to procrastinate long enough that snow will hit and the season to use it at all is over.

Love it. Easy to assemble and looks super nice!

After assembly following the instructions and filling the container with sand and then watering the sand, the sides bulged out. Have one side against a concrete porch which keeps that side from bulging, but the open side bulged out. The instructions show to put the braces on the second screw from the top and second screw from the bottom. One more brace in the center would take care of it, or maybe moving the top brace down and the bottom brace up. So, I'll be digging the material out and moving the braces to see if that works, or make braces to go in the middle. If the company would supply more braces for the middle, that would be ideal and have a 5 star rating.Update: I dug out the material and put chain across the middle screws. I also lowered the top brace to the third screw, thus leaving 2 screws between each brace. Put the sand back in the container and watered and it seems to be holding. If you use this, put a brace in the middle of some sort and that should help.

the only complaint I have is that it's time consuming to put together lots and lots of bolts... past that there very sturdy when filled and are holding up well under gardening conditions