SMART POTBig Bag Jr. Fabric Raised Bed, 50 gal, Black, Junior

These are awesome and love that they are made in the USA. They are priced great as well! I wish I had not bought all of my pots before I found these. At some point I will switch all my plants and garden to these.

Great product, easy to use. Vegetable seem to love growing in it. Will buy from again.

This is a super simple nice and deep raised bed. I am putting in an order for two more. Very pleased that the packaging does not include any plastic (bonus points here). No fussing with frames and supports. Good sturdy material. I filled it up with my own mix of 50% manure, 34% peat moss, 16% sand. I sift these ingredients using 1/4" wire mesh stretched over a wooden frame. It takes about 6 wheel barrows to fill. I have tried various raised beds over the years as the Island we live on is mostly rocks and poor soil. I like that this bed does not have a frame of wood, bricks or rocks that attract ants.

This turned out to be the best thing for me! I can't dig very well, especially with the clay and rocks mixed in with soil in my yard, and I can't lift anything heavy. So, all I did with this was scoop garden soil, fertilizer, and peat moss from the bags they came in into this, plant my summer bulbs, and that's it! I think it's impossible to over-water because of the construction of the planting bed. All of my bulbs have sprouted and are doing wonderfully, so I'll have a little moveable garden area in addition to the couple I had before. If I have too many bulbs in it, I'll just get some more smaller Smart Pots and put some in those.

I purchased 3 of these spring of 2015. First off, understand that you'll need to fill these liners to the top or their sides will cave inward...and it takes a LOT of dirt to fill them up.Bed #1 was filled with purchased Miracle Grow Organic and planted with strawberries and pansies. I raised this bed above ground by placing it on 5 straw bales. A mistake. Also, despite putting in 12 1.5-cu bags of soil, the liner wasn't filled to the very top and the top of the sides caved in a bit, covering some of the plants that were close to the edge of the bed. I plan to put the liner on the ground in the fall, raise the soil level, and re-plant the strawberries that remain. I didn't get the crop I expected probably because it was in an area that was difficult to monitor a much as it needed. So, placing the bed in a more convenient spot is another thing I'll do this fall, too. The fact that you can do that is a plus with this kind of bed -- it's easy to move and change your mind regarding soil and placement, etc.Bed #2 was planted in greens and herbs, all of which did very, very well. No weeds. Clean soil -- no pathogens or dirt-based insect infestations. The plants have done very well: 4 Swiss chard plants have kept me (and others) in greens all summer; I expect them to continue well through fall and into winter. The herbs are also doing great. The mistake I made, as with the strawberries, was not filling the liver to within an inch of the top: the sides fold into more than I like. However, soon I'll plant the herbs and remaining plants elsewhere and dump the soil. Then, I'll put in fresh dirt to the top and seed chard, garlic, and onions to get a start in spring. It's nice to be able to start "fresh."Bed #3 was planted to tomatoes. What I did was to plant tomato seedlings around the edge of the liner, spacing them about 10"-12" apart: about 8-10 plants. Then, I made a tepee affair with some stakes, training the tomatoes on twine that was tied around the stakes at different levels. The center was left empty -- which made it very easy for watering. Also, the growing plants created their own "mulch," shading the center from the sun (thus less evaporation) and making it easy to pick fruit that developed among the leaves underneath. As in the other two beds, I did not put in as much dirt as I should have -- though, as I think about it now, with tomatoes, it would have been very easy to fill in with more dirt. Any way, I didn't...and, as it turned out it didn't matter that much, because I have tomatoes galore that are easy to pick, taste great, and are doing wonderfully. I will dump the dirt in fall, somehow "sanitize" the liner, and plants tomatoes the same way next year.As I write this, my appreciation for the beds has increased. They allowed me to have beds where it would have been very difficult for me to have anything growing (did I mention that the property was once a drive-in theater and has a 4-6" layer of gravel under the grass??). It also will allow me to refresh my soil so that crop rotation might not be necessary -- if you have one and only one spot for tomatoes and other sun-lovers, you can clean up the debris and dump the dirt elsewhere and start over with the liner in the same place every year.The one piece of advice I'd give is to be prepared to fill the liners to the top with soil...which could take as much as 20 2-cu ft bags of planting soil. It may be more cost effective to find a building or landscaping supplier where you are able to buy your soil in bulk. Just know where they get the soil.