These handy containers can make gardening easier and more productive—and they look great too As spring comes around again, so too does the outdoor gardening season—which means it’s time to consider raised garden bed ideas. If your property doesn’t allow for a standard in-ground garden—or if you simply don’t feel like tilling and weeding and digging up patches of soil to create a spot for your flowers, veggies, and herbs—then a raised garden bed is the way to go. Raised beds can be used on patios, decks, side yards, or terraces, or set up right atop grass or gravel on the ground itself. They are relatively easy to establish and maintain, and are more forgiving than many other approaches to gardening. So, don’t worry if you aren’t an experienced green thumb: This season, a lovely and fruitful garden is bound to bloom thanks to your above-ground garden beds.…