The 4’ x 4’ Raised Garden Bed is perfect to provide an easy introduction to the joys and benefits of growing your own vegetables and flowers. Youngsters especially will benefit from this introduction to gardening; getting their hands dirty in the fresh soil, planting veggies or flowers, tending them, and seeing them mature until ready to harvest. With 16 square feet of available planting area to develop your skills, there is ample room to grow a good variety of your favorite veggies, herbs, or flowers: from luscious tomatoes to fragrant herbs or a complete salsa or spaghetti sauce garden. Your kit comes with everything you need except the soil and plants. Each modular kit includes composite boards and snap-lock stacking brackets. The open-channel boards trap air, providing insulation to your soil, and regulating your soil temperature. The warm soil in spring means you can plant earlier and because the soil remains warm later into fall it extends your growing season. The insulated board walls also keep your soil from drying out which reduces the need for water. Stacking brackets allow you to install the additional layers of your garden just by inserting the stakes into the brackets below. Our patented snap-lock brackets simply slide onto each end of a board and fasten securely with snap-lock buttons. Did you know? You can grow up to 16 different plants inside your 4’ x 4’ garden using “Square Foot Gardening” techniques. There are countless books and online resources available to guide you in this rewarding method of gardening. The Frame It All system of modular raised garden beds, borders, sandboxes, and accessories was designed by our founder, Anthony Topping. As a professional landscape designer who spent many years creating high-end gardens in the Tri-State New York area, he felt there had to be a way to give homeowners the ability to easily create quality landscaping features and gardens for much less than paying a professional.