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building raised beds

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Hi All,
I'm about to put together my raised beds. Had to hand pick out each board.
It's getting hard to find good boards. My questions is this; I'm thinking of
using galvanised angle irons to hold the 2'x12' boards together at the
corners
instead of wood. I thought they might be able to help keep the boards from
splitting as they will be screwed in from the top to the bottom of the
boards and they wouldn't rot. Any other suggestions? I'm thinking that I'll
need to sink in a 4x4 post at about the middle of the 12' span to keep the
boards from bowing. I really don't want to put them on the outside because
of the look but I think that that really might be the better way to do it as
far as strength. Again any suggestions as to other materials I could use for
this?
Thanks,
Melody


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