VEVOR 8x4x2ft Metal Raised Garden Bed Kit, Outdoor Large Planter Raised Beds for Gardening Vegetables Flowers with Open Bottom and Planting Tools

Sturdy and great for a garden bed. Exactly as advertised. Had it over a year now and still holding up and looking like the day I got it. It made it through a couple storms already. We'll made and can be put together by one person but 2 people would be better.The size is perfect as well.

I have7 of these around my back yard growing herbs and such. No rabbits eating my garden.

Very disappointed in the sturdiness of this garden bed. The sides are bulging out. I think if it were not 2’ tall it wouldn’t be a problem, but it is. For the cost, I could have easily built a garden bed from wood but I thought this would be more sturdy.

The panels are, at best, .2 mm thick, not the 1mm advertised. The metal on the corner pieces might be 1mm thick, but those are the only strong pieces in the kit. Because the panels are so thin, and the crossbars are so weak, the raised bed box is pretty flimsy when assembled. The only way assembly could be finished in 5 minutes as mentioned is if you had a machine already built to assemble these things. I'm pretty good at these kinds of assemblies, and it took me (on my own) almost two hours to complete. If you were working on a perfectly flat, hard surface, and had a few people to help, you might be able to do it in an hour. It would be a challenge to remove the plastic film from all the panels in the 5 minutes advertised for assembly. The planting tools and gloves are joke - they are so small they'd only be useful for kids or garden gnomes. Because it was only $99, I was able to spend some money to reinforce it and make it useable.

When it was it together it was bigger than I expected. Took 2-3 hours to put it together. Was easy to move into place. Put one layer of logs down, covered with cardboard. Takes 13 large bags of raised bed soil, 2 medium bags of composted steer manure and one large bag of peat moss. So far so good.

I have bought a few metal beds now. I bought 3 of these and they are really good. While these aren’t the best quality, they are great for the price. These aren’t straight after you put the dirt in, they still very sturdy. If you want them perfect then you’d have to spend double/triple the price, which I wasn’t willing to do.

I bought this not realizing that the sections are only 2ft long. This makes it flimsy, plus there are twice as many screws and wing nuts to fasten vs the raised beds that are made with 4ft sections. I recommend skipping this one, and spend the extra $20 dollars to buy the raised beds with 4ft sections.

This is a terrible design for a garden box when the side load of dirt is involved. The top and bottom have a very bendable "brace" but that's all you get, nothing holds the middle of the panel from bowing outward. Slowly filling this box it became apparent as more soil was added the center kept pushing further outward until now it looks like the rounded edge of a donut! I'll try and get a refund but I doubt that will happen, I'm going to have to let the sides loose to spill out the dirt and get an 8ft stock tank to use instead (which was the original plan, but since those are around $299 this was worth a shot first).Your luck may vary with this product, but I'll tell you I'd never attempt to get another one of these. Better to just bite the bullet and pay for something known to work; or just build a garden box like I did at our previous house out of Juniper wood (that box is still standing 15 years later).