Photo: AHatmaker - stock.adobe.com We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Home Advice You Can Trust Tips, tricks & ideas for a better home and yard, delivered to your inbox daily. Raised beds have some major advantages over standard in-ground gardens: they warm up faster in spring, drain beautifully, and allow you to grow deep-rooted plants in gardens that would otherwise be too rocky to accommodate them. But while there are plenty of fantastic raised bed options on the market, the DIYer in me was much more interested in building my own when I finally decided to try out raised bed gardening. I’ll walk you through the basics of how I made a simple raised bed garden on the cheap, as well as the mistakes I made along the way so you can avoid them. Planning My Raised Bed Before I started on the actual DIY, I did a fair amount of planning to ensure my raised bed garden was the best it could be.…