US 2013/0174480 A1 · High raised garden bed planter

Abstract

A planter assembly o raise a garden bed to a height that eliminates or minimizes stoop labour is comprised of lightweight, flexible, materials with adequate tensile strength as well as a rigid element with adequate compressive strength. Flexible wire mesh is formed into a perimeter frame of pre-determined width, length and height in combination with rods and wire. A textile lines the perimeter frame, providing a barrier impervious to soil. The textile encloses the top horizontal wire of the mesh within a hem held fast by wire and is thereby restrained. A band of the textile, sufficiently wide to be held to the ground by the placement of soil, extends from the base of the perimeter frame towards its middle. Wire is also used as crossties to enable the lateral earth pressure pushing against one side to resist the lateral earth pressure pushing against the side opposite.

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Dependent claims

A high raised garden bed planter kit comprising a plurality of rods, textile, wire mesh, and single strand wire;

wherein said rods, textile, wire mesh and wire are sufficient to form a continuous, rectangular, rigid, upright, perimeter wall of predetermined width, length, and height, which is impervious to soil;
and wherein said rods hold said mesh under tension in a perimeter frame, and said textile lines said frame, and said wire is used to make attachments;
whereby a person can work the surface of said planter with minimal or no stooping and can access the middle of the surface of said planter with minimal or no strain, and whereby the expensive, inherently rigid, predominant material of the prior art is replaced in great part by inexpensive, flexible materials with latent rigidity, and whereby the kit is lightweight and reasonably compact and relatively inexpensive, and whereby the planter can be assembled with a few widely available and inexpensive tools.

A method to construct an upright, rectangular, planter of pre-determined dimensions comprising a plurality of rods, textile, wire mesh and single strand wire wherein:

some of said rods are used as corner posts and are braced by others of said rods and are held in predetermined, fixed positions defining the length and width of an embodiment, and some of said wire is used to make attachments as required;
corners are formed at pre-determined intervals along the length of said wire mesh and said mesh is attached with some of said wire and others of said rods to said corner posts and joined at its ends to form a continuous, reasonably rigid, rectangular, upright frame;
others of said rods are interlaced vertically through said mesh such that some horizontal wires of said mesh are on one side of said rods and some horizontal wires of said mesh are on the other side of said rods and wherein the top horizontal wire of said mesh is pushed up by an end of each of said rods and the bottom horizontal wire of said mesh is held down by the other end of each of said rods, whereby the rigidity of said frame is augmented;
said textile is extended until it forms a continuous inside liner with overlapping ends that are joined with some of said wire, and a narrow band of said textile is folded over the top horizontal wire of said mesh and attached to itself with wire in the manner of a hem, whereby said textile is restrained;
a band of said textile sufficiently wide to be held to the ground by and during the placement of soil is extended inwards from the base of said perimeter wall;
some of said wire is made into one or a plurality of crossties of a predetermined length and in one or a plurality of units is attached to sides opposite of the embodiment at an appropriate height or heights and with appropriate horizontal spacing, whereby the predetermined width of the embodiment is maintained and the lateral earth pressure against a side can be used to resist the lateral earth pressure against the side opposite.

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