You can breathe a sigh of relief: the carpentry-phase of the project is over! The current step involves painting, then lining the inside of the planting bed.
First, paint the entire raised bed, unless you'll be planting it with edibles. We'll be planting flowers in our raised bed, so we decided to apply paint. A coat of paint will help preserve raised beds, which will, after all, be subjected to a lot of moisture. We used a latex paint.
Next, staple landscape fabric to the inside of the planting bed, to retain the soil. You'll probably have to overlap a few strips of landscape fabric to achieve complete coverage. We ran a strip of landscape fabric along the length of the planting bed first, and stapled it (fold and staple in the corners as neatly as you can). Then we ran one strip perpendicular to this, to cover the left side of the planting bed, followed by another to cover the right side, stapling both in place.
In Step #10, we'll see the finished raised bed.
