VERY nice and I can see you added some jar-houses to the other completed bed

Sunflowers, coming up from seeds and protecting them from nibbling.

looks nice, not seem one done with pavers before, hope it works for you

Have parts that are 15 to 20 years old and are holding up just fine.

Very cool, I wish to do something similar and grow my own potatoes.

Totally do-able! The first year I tried that, it turned out so-so. Second year, AWESOME! Last year got devastated by bugs.
This year, with garlic and onions companion-planted, bugs seem to be holding back.

Also, coffee grounds are FAB for conditioning the soil. Potatoes are weird and like acid-leaning soil.

I do want to grow garlic and onions as well, so I'll keep that in mind.

We stack a couple of car tyres and fill them with dirt and slowly add a couple more in height as the plants grow to build a squat pillar. At harvest you simply pull up the tyres one by one and harvest spuds from the collapsing dirt. Tyre sizes vary so you may only go 2 or 3 high if using larger/wider tyres. Depending on your area you may need to ensure you have some drainage at the ground level to avoid the spuds getting waterlogged... we didn't but we are in a semi-arid environment. You may add some straw/compost/mulch with the dirt if your soil needs it.

A good use for what would otherwise be waste. Used to build up to a dozen towers at a time with some different breeds of spuds for variety. Leave the tyres in the sun/weather for a season or so before the first use if you are worried about any chemical concerns but we never had any issues.

I've heard of using big burlap sacks with the same technique.

Yup, if you have old hessian, hemp or burlap bags... heck even woven PVC will usually last a season. Just slice 'em up the side when the plants die off and you just collect the spuds from the collapsing pile. Never thought of glues for this sort of thing, I usually use mortar or dynabolts.

Hope your beds treat you well and your harvests are plentiful. I know you folks often have to deal with a larger number of garden invaders than we do... here it is mainly heat/frost or drought that makes life tough for our gardens.

A side note, I will say it was great to actually meet you over here many, many moons back when you attended MiDFur in 2012. Keep on keeping on.

dynobots!?

DOH!

"bolts"!

man I gotta get my eyes fixed!

Gorilla glue! I never would have thought of that!

The urithane glue darkens a bit with age and I expect that over enough time, any exposed parts might UV crumble, but have parts that are 20 years old with any sign of failure.

Raised beds are SOOOooo convenient. Is that some sort of liner I see at the bottoms? I undergirded mine with hardware mesh to keep digging-critters out. With blocks would be convenient to just set them on top for the same effect.

Happy growing to ya!

No liners, just angle irons for firm bottom edges. No diggers here.

Heh. Lucky. We got them all over here... moles, voles, gophers and ground squirrels.
Foxes and skunks keep reins on the above-ground pests, but the diggers can do a LOT of damage.

Reminds me: I need to fix that Gopher-Hawk trap... seems to be the only one that actually works.

The paving stones are a good idea. I had a wooden raised bed back in the day, and I always wondered if the preservative I used on the wood would leech into the soil.
Before you dump the soil in, you might want to put down landscape fabric to prevent weeds from coming in from the soil below.

Well done!

Oh, very cool.

Oh damn! Those aren't going anywhere.

Very nice! I have a bunch of metal prefab ones.

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Cool, I'm finally _almost_ eeady to do one...

1) be careful walkin there...

2) wheres the coffee beans!?