So, how to build an elevated raised planter using cedar fence pickets.  And also how not to build it.  Yeah.
And by that I mean, have a freakin' plan and don't just wing it.  Like me.
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See, earlier this spring I picked up some wee lil' seed packets for radishes and romaine lettuce, not having grown radishes or um, any food in uh, decades.
I do pick up tomato plants for Mike every year aaaand, they usually die.  Not my forte.  Tomatoes nor food growing.
Who knows what deluded idea came over me to pick up these little seeds but I did.  From Dollar Tree* in fact so, no offense to the Dollar Tree, my expectations were low.  In fairness though, all of the flower seeds I bought there have grown! Lo, after plopping seeds in some planters, they sprouted.  In fact, we ended up with a total of four radishes and the romaine is currently about six inches tall as I tippy tap type this.
Most of the radish seeds, while they grew, did not sprout radishes.
We got this very perfect one to start!  It was taaasty!But.  Heh.  So then Mike....
M:  Babe, you could make a thing and put food stuff in it to grow.
B:  glances skeptically at her beloved, images of rodents and bugs floating through her head
M:  Build a thing, let's do it.
Says the guy who keeps saying slow your roll on inv...