Last year we had a terrible rabbit infestation and I was super busy at work...no time for building fences.
My last minute solution was to get many wooden crates from the Industrial area of Seattle. The crates, like pallets, get dumped outside the manufacturing businesses, free for the taking.
I set them in rows and lined them with weed blocking fabric.....filled them.with garden soil and planted.
It was not a total success but not because I used crates.
The crates are convenient in that everything was either at thigh or belly button height. Sizes avg 3x4x3.5
Downside of the idea was the amount if aoil it takes to fill the crate. Downside for me was the lack of access I have to my backyard which meant I had to haul 4 yards of soil from my front yard to my backyard in home depot buckets.
Good news for me was I have 2 kids and a wife to help me haul dirt. That was also bad news for them.
This year I built a poultry/chicken wore fence around the garden area. I am removing the soil from the crates and placing it in my newly created 24x4’ flower beds and cutting up the crates into fire pit sized pieces.
As luck would have it my backyard neighbors are replacing the cedar fence and I got a ton of old cedar boards to make raised bed.....at least enough for one 24x4’
Oooh good score on those cedar boards!