Cool Chicken Wire Under Raised Garden Bed Ideas. If you plan to plant immediately, you should also add a layer of topsoil meant to grow vegetables. The cardboard should be placed on top of that layer.
Once we put soil and plants in it it was good for 2 weeks and last night the bottom completely came off the structure! Next, we unrolled the hardware cloth: Web 'chicken wire is a quick and easy method for plants of all sizes,' pol says.