Are Anleolife® Metal Raised Garden Beds Any Good?

hey dir farmer J here from direr j.com you've probably seen this brand being advertised all over the social media channels for raay garden beds well we decide to give it a try see what we found [Music] out one of the first things you may want to know is where it's made it comes clearly labeled that it was made in China distributed in the US we're going to open the box and see how well made it is the gauge of it and how good the instructions are well let's get to it all right let's get it open securely packaged oh they gave us some little gardening gloves there all right branded ones there's a little instruction manual and a ton of Fasteners it comes in two different color as you can see we' got the gray uh and it also comes in white and these are I would say medium gauge they're not super heavyduty like full agricultural tanks but they're not as thin as some of I've seen before and right now this Flex is at this angle but we bolt them together I anticipate that we'll end up with uh something that's pretty dog on Rigid as far as Dimensions go it's about 18 in tall about 45 5 to 46 cm tall and 48 in wide which if I refer here really quickly is about 122 CM diameter it holds 179 Gall of media well here's their Little Instruction Manual right here for building these uh it just simply so shows the part in their pictogram you've got the curve panel Wing nuts the Fasteners and then this looks like an important piece of information that everything overlaps around uh each one I call that a chasing pattern uh then it's all attached and what we have in front of us makes two sets well let's look at the tools they provide and see if we uh can use better tools right out of our shop inventory okay so here's the parts and uh the tool that comes with it a little um emergency philli screwdriver uh I don't see any use for that that's going to go away especially when you can use something like that ready to drive this all the galvanized screws with the uh Phillips and straight combo heads I'll use Phillips and then of course the matching Wing nuts that go with that allow you to drive the screws on one side hold the wing nut on the other side and tighten them as needed let's go ahead and put these directly into these little magnetic dishes that's going to keep everything where they need to be okay we're ready to go to work we have our Fasteners here and I'll let you know at the time uh when we finish assembly if they gave any extra Fasteners or you had to be super careful not to lose any of them all right let's go ahead and start assembly all right so I set these up on a flat surface and make them easier to handle align the hole put in our first Fastener I'm using the drill as I said and matter of fact the instructions mention that as well and I'm not going to Super tighten them until I I get several going but make sure that the wing nuts go to the inside of the container not the outside the outside is for the driver side and that's the proper way to put them together all right we're just going to rotate around step and repeat each one has to overlap on the next one okay now we have all of the pieces put together here it's creating that 48 in wide bed uh and we purposely left all the Fasteners loose to begin with simply because if you really cinched them down and then parts will misaligned it's just a real hassle so it's a lot better to leave them loose like this we put three Fastener in each of the joint lines making sure that each of the pieces chased behind the other ones now we're going to just go through and tighten these up and then start applying the other Fasteners as [Music] well so here we are we got everything completed six sections six bolts per section joined so 36 Fasteners are used to assemble this again making sure that the wing nut goes to the inside uh the Phillips Drive head or straight drive goes on the outside using electric driver makes it go a lot faster and if you want you can use a pair of pliers to hold the wing nuts they can get a little sharp when you're Rota am but now we have a nice unit I would say that once it's been assembled uh the stiffness is greatly increased and uh we will get a set of these assembled six of them and they'll go out into our field where we're going to go ahead and put irrigation with a stand pipe up in the middle fill these up with about the 170 or 180 quarts of growing material uh we may actually throw some things in the bottom like uh bark or chipped wood that sort of thing keep enriching the soil and one other things we're going to do before we put these down is we will put netting at the bottom uh close uh chicken wire because we do have pocket gophers and uh they will find their ways into these very rich uh growing beds with lots of roots for them to eat so we're going to keep them out all right there you've got it here uh if you're interested in seeing some of the other packages that they provide both for the rectangular with the round ends also in white and this Platinum gray which we really like or if you want to call it Battleship Gray looks pretty classy uh you can go up there and get those prices we don't make a scent on these as always when we find something we think solves a problem uh it's our pleasure to pass it on to you and we think we're going to have a great Growing Experience with all the vine crops what we needed to pay for these when we bought them was about $75 all in per uh per per 48 in ring so we got six of them um and that was a package that they offer and comparing prices if I went to our local agricultural Supply or Home Improvement center and looked at the galvanized steel rings that are approximately the size sometimes shallower uh we were talking $85 each plus so we actually saved a little bit of money and we think we got a classy looking uh product it has that cool gray finish on it uh we'll come back to you and let you know how it all turns out here's something else you should know about if you're a home Gardener and that's how to build your own DIY irrigation system using PVC pipe here's a great system that we've used for quite sometime we use it to irrigate our corn and adding them into our beds we think you're going to really like it using parts that you can get right from your home center and while you're at it check out this other video that YouTube thinks is perfect for your interest and we'd like it if you watch it too until the next time this is dir farmer J from dirtfarmer j.com going out to tend the garden