Beginner Gardening: Question about lining homemade wooden planters, 4 by Gymgirl

Gymgirl wrote:
I'm with 1lisac,

Simple box sitting on the ground -- no bottom -- no liner...

I made my very first raised beds (RB) from pressure treated (PT) lumber (and, yes, it's perfectly safe to grow veggies in, nowadays...) I bought (ugly word, these days..). I lined the outsides of the boxes with the remaining pickets from my newly installed cedar fence, to match the fence.

These days, I'm making them outta reclaimed lumber from the lumber yard, and anywhere else I can get close to $0 spent. Just cut the usable sections and piece them together. No lining.

Or, once the backyard beautification projects pick up for the summer, I'll get more cedar fence pickets from the culled lumber pile, and make the Ana White $10 raised beds for