This is a damn good idea for squash beds, use window screen instead and just make one side open, maybe a little taller. Thanks for the idea! I'll give you credit when I make the video!
What a wonderful idea! window screen would keep bugs out too... Would it shade the plants too much? We use screening out here in the desert to shade our tomatoes. They aren't fond of 120 degree weather. I plan on moving to a colder climate though... Just wondered if the added shade would be a detriment in a place like Minnesota?
@@diy-mitri9737 I'm not sure since I haven't built mine yet. I suspect it won't provide much shade at all but I'm going by my screened in porch. Plenty of sun gets through there so this should be similar.
The bed is great, but it being a "family" project is PERFECT! A family that works together.....well.....that's just how it's supposed to be! Great job sir!!
The TH-cam video I didn't know I needed!! Thank you so much for posting this. I have just started my seeds indoors and am getting ready to do winter sowing....I was looking for different raised garden beds with fencing. This looks perfect!!
Hi, I had the same problem with bugs in my garden last season. I recently watched a video where they wrapped the cages in Muslim cloth so that the flies and cabbage moths could not lay their eggs on the vegetables but the breeze and rain can still get through. It is what I am going to try this year. I also grow my tomatoes in buckets and cage them in to not only keep critters out but to manage the growth. I just wanted to share that with you. Good luck and Happy Gardening...
Thanks for sharing ! I made 16'x5' raised beds but buried 8' landscape timbers 2' under for all 4 corners and the middle of each long side (6 total). My "doors" are on both long sides but it is simply stretched 4' tall chicken wire between 2 2x2's separated in the middle (4 doors total). Works great for harvest and weeding. I have pole beans and mators so there is no "ceiling". This keeps the worst, deer and rabbit's, out of the garden. I wish I could post a picture of them here. also I surround the entire border with marigolds for animal repellent. I like the parts of your vid where theres no music and I can hear what's being said.
I would love to have more specific instructions for building the raised bed cages. I am also having trouble with critters, specifically with rabbits, groundhogs and squirrels and I recently had two fox run through my yard. I don’t have much experience building things, have built a simple raised bed, but the cage is out of my league with just watching your video and winging it. Also, my main two beds are made of galvanized steel, so the hinges would be a problem, but I would be willing to lift it off and on if it protected my veggies.
Your video was awesome. I am going to make these ! Great that you gave your advice on things that you will change for next years cropl As for the Tall height, I would just cut out the one section of the chicken wire where you need the height and shape new chicken wire to the "Mountain Height and restaple. I will be putting my hinges on the sides to life vertical. at the length for more height room. You didnt miss any steps to your video. Well Done. Best to you and your family. Lori L
Very nice! I think I'll use hardware cloth instead of chicken wire, especially on the bottom. I like your 'would do it different' ideas, something I'd never think about, especially the tomatoes.
4:55… I used the Lowes castle bricks and cedar wood planks. I WISH I had done this chicken wire along the bottom but I got a little too far and didn’t want to undo all the installed dirt. I hope I don’t regret this. 🙏
I had some success with a similar project in zone 5 winter gardening using plastic on sides secured with stapled furring strips and a hoop of fence on top secured to frame, just like yours with zip ties. The wire fence edges were jagged on plastic and on fleece. I have expermented with duck tape, it's effective but ugly. I am thinking about a rubberized paint just on rough edges. Anyway, if you screw in eyelets along bottom sides of raised bed and run rope over the top of the whole thing it secures the top and sides. I used the quick release knots, so i coukd easily tighten and loosen as needed, that is a must. I used more furring strips on sides with rows of plastic and a layer of fleece underneath along the hoop style roof to give warmth and allow some ventilation and water to pass to plants on warm/sunny days. I have 20 of these beds and it was too much to vent and water so, it was essential. I only grew kale, mizuna, winter lettuce brussel sprouts and spinach. They all survived weeks of frozen snow, but nothing thrived until this first march thaw. I planted everything in September ladt year. I am planning spiring vegetables now. I think next year i am going to cover beds with plastic in Feb to achieve early soil warming and put everything up in march to get a 2 month jump on spring crops.
Thanks for your comment! I was actually planning on doing something very similar to what you suggest and creating a little greenhouse. I think that it would have worked very well. The only challenge is that I am moving and so it didn't make sense to get a jump on a garden that I wasn't going to use. Great suggestion though!
Very much like the info you shared when talking about what you would do differently! that hinge style did look like it'd be a pain once the plants are actually growing.
for your cucumber zucchini bug issue, read up on companion planting such as some herbs planted beside those attacked could ward off those bugs and a homemade pepper spray could chase other insects away have a great day.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at that. I tried yellow flypaper, but it also trapped ladybugs and the adhesive was also not strong enough. The bad bugs would get stuck and then get free. The problem was I needed to do more preventive measures. By the time I saw them it was already too late. I won't make the same mistake again.
Liked your video. Hope you are living a good life in 2021. This is the first year in 4 years of gardening that I don’t have a garden. Last year was hard and I lost everything. I couldn’t keep the bugs away and my plants were eaten. Maybe I’ll try next year.
2020 is going OK :-) I need to cover my wife's flowers/plants. But the planters I built for her are waist high. I will need to modify mine a little. Like your hat, I follow the Morgans on TH-cam too :-)) Thanks for some ideas on frames for the plants.
Its a box. Plenty have shown a box. The great twist you got here is adding the chicken wire to the bottom. That is a great idea. Honestly you should add Rabbit and wood chuck proofing to your title. Probably get more hits. And yeah you need doors. If you are going that far may want a roof and add deer resistance to the list. Nice job.
This is a great idea and for me this is nice and neat. I was wondering about the height too, but for my smaller veggies, I could use this too. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽
@DIYDave Great video. Next time consider putting cardboard on the bottom before filling with dirt. It helps kill the grass, prevent weeds and attracts worms 🪱.
Being a complete novice at doing any do it yourself projects it would be extremely helpful if you listed all the tools needed to complete this project so I can endeavor to do this well tooled.
Great idea, but it looks like some of the plants get smooshed by the cage when it's opened and closed. You should definitely add doors to the bottom next season.
Yeah, I had to be really careful not to shut some of the plants in the doors. I will definitely be making some changes next season to make sure that it works better.
@@DIYwithDave omg yes! if you could make another video next year with the same sized beds but somehow put doors on them, my dream will be made. i cant seem to find any diy videos for smaller beds like these but with doors (it would be so perfect) p.s. just subscribed
Don’t forget that your zucchini flowers need to be pollinated. Bees and other insects need to get to the flowers or you will have to hand pollinate. Watch a few videos about squash bugs, you can collect the eggs off the leaves to help cut down on damage.
If you have had squash vine borers, they may now be in your soil, which sucks! Otherwise I would cover with floating row cover and hand pollinate or have a squash box that is covered with screen. Summer squash are prolific producers.
I did have squash vine borers 😕. I was only able to save 2 of my zucchini plants last year. I have read about some soil treatments that I am going to try out this year to get rif of them.
Hey love the Teal Themed Colors but also consider building a treehouse over just a house that tears down the forest. Trees should be building blocks no tearing blocks. It can be funky and swirlyio just needs a bit of adjusting imagination and blueprinting and there we go and inventive you might get more followers because your not just helping humanity but your helping the World. We are not only making channels grow but It inspire others to experiment and TH-cam Channels will grow when we choose to help the world 2 ways in one stone. Building a tree house and putting gardens in it. It can maybe make new species
Thankyou Dave for doingthis video. This exactly what I need to do! However my containers are smaller and plastic, so I can’t hinge them, what do you recommend? How would you do a round container?
Yes it has! I considered putting chicken wire on the top, but opted not to. I did have something eat some of my peppers as they grew tall. It could have been deer. My tomatoes, though, grew tall and nothing touched them.
The base of the cages matched the top of the raised bed. The two smaller cages were about 2 feet tall and the larger one was about 3 feet tall and the rest of the measurements I made on the fly as I built it.
Chicken wire on the bottom will fail after a couple years. It rusts and gofers will chew through it eventually. It's better to put 1/2 inch hardware cloth.
Great idea for the existing raised beds I have that were devastated by @#$% squirrels last season. What were the dimensions of the wood you used? I'm trying to do this with 2x2s but am having a hard time joining them securely.
I put out homemade landmines, but since I did it while halfway down a bottle of Beam, I don't remember where they are. Now I can't go in my yard ever again.
Nice video. Can you please turn down the level of your music a little. I’m not enjoying the loud music you put in between your talking. I’m having to keep on adjusting the volume all the time. Thanks. I assume not all your listeners are young and enjoy loud music. 👂👂👂👂👂
A raised bed, that just had DIRTY dumped over the lawn into the box? Why on earth wouldn't you have taken the sod out first, and put a gardeners liner in the bottom so the weeds can't come up? The grass is going to grow right up through the soil!! The Dirt DOES NOT KILL IT. It only takes longer to grow up through it. NO mesh on the top of the cages? Do you think squirrels and birds and such can't figure that out? This is just nonsense.
Sorry you didn't like it. I was going to put mesh on the top but instead of going to that trouble I decided to see how it would be first. I can always add mesh later, I thought. Well, it worked out fine. No problems with squirrels or birds at all. I think the biggest problem I have here is rabbits. On the grass, again I decided that it wasn't worth all the trouble to remove the sod first. And that has also worked fine. I have only had ocassional blades of grass; no more than what could have blown in naturally.
@@DIYwithDave from the experiences of friends who also did the beds over grass, it eventually will come up in full force as theirs did. They emptied their beds, and put down gardeners cloth, and put all their dirt back in. They also have serious deer problems. Especially eating their hostas and other garden flowers and vegetable crops. Even crows pecking their tomatoes. where there's a will there's a way. Have a look at SHAWИEE HILLS WORKSHOP Raised Bed Garden which would have worked out great for you. Episode E82 if I remember right. As ever I wish all the home gardeners the best of luck. I grew up on a 400 acre dairy & crops farm and much of what we did was by trial and error,, so videos are a sensational tool for helping avoid some of those errors and the helpful hints.
*Hello there, I have requested your DVDs, for simpler and quicker approach to manufacture a shed **Allmy.Tips** I trust the substance are as you guaranteed it will be. Just I'm worried with the substance, it won't be anything but difficult to settle on a decision from the various plans.*
I hope you don't mind me saying so but you are a very good husband and father. Love the craftsmanship!
Thanks for the compliment!
I was thinking the same thing! Your family probably appreciates you so much!
Thank you!
You could split the cages in half and hinge on both sides so they open like a book. Cool build.
The best video I’ve seen so far about protecting those raised beds from critters!
Thanks! I hope you found it useful!
Good ideal , keep the funky Vermants out of Gardens...
Blessings From Texas🤠
This looks far simpler than what I was going to do. Nicely done
Glad I could help!
Thanks I bought a house and are going to follow your design for my garden this weekend
Awesome! Congrats on your new home! Mine worked great, I hope yours does too!
This is a damn good idea for squash beds, use window screen instead and just make one side open, maybe a little taller. Thanks for the idea! I'll give you credit when I make the video!
No problem. Glad you found it useful.
What a wonderful idea! window screen would keep bugs out too... Would it shade the plants too much? We use screening out here in the desert to shade our tomatoes. They aren't fond of 120 degree weather. I plan on moving to a colder climate though... Just wondered if the added shade would be a detriment in a place like Minnesota?
@@diy-mitri9737 the flowers on the squash will have to be hand pollinated if you use window screen.
@@diy-mitri9737 I'm not sure since I haven't built mine yet. I suspect it won't provide much shade at all but I'm going by my screened in porch. Plenty of sun gets through there so this should be similar.
@@annmarienoone9879 hand pollinated how do you do that? This is my first year so I'm learning a lot.
The bed is great, but it being a "family" project is PERFECT! A family that works together.....well.....that's just how it's supposed to be! Great job sir!!
You do nice work!😊
Thanks!
Great idea with the cages. Looks like I have another winter project.
Thanks! I am actually thinking of ways I can transform it into a greenhouse for colder weather.
Thank you it’s
Much more doable than the large ones with doors
I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
@@DIYwithDave can’t wait to build it
I might have questions
I'm happy to answer questions. Happy building!
The TH-cam video I didn't know I needed!! Thank you so much for posting this. I have just started my seeds indoors and am getting ready to do winter sowing....I was looking for different raised garden beds with fencing. This looks perfect!!
Glad I could help!
WOW!!! nice job love them
Thanks!
Determinate tomatoes vs indeterminate would help the tomato issue. It’s the difference between vining vs bush. Great video.🎉
Really enjoyed your video. Good looking garden 😊
The doors sounds like a winner. I have bugs in Texas. I only get 1 or 2 zucchini but I have something for them this year. I'm covering my plants.
This was a great video. I hope to see more.
Thanks! I always have more projects coming.
What a awesome clever idea!
Thanks!
Thanks Dave, nice video and nice to hear what you'd do differently, thx for making the video!
Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, I had the same problem with bugs in my garden last season. I recently watched a video where they wrapped the cages in Muslim cloth so that the flies and cabbage moths could not lay their eggs on the vegetables but the breeze and rain can still get through. It is what I am going to try this year. I also grow my tomatoes in buckets and cage them in to not only keep critters out but to manage the growth. I just wanted to share that with you. Good luck and Happy Gardening...
Thanks for this! Loved the tips on what you liked and what you would do differently. Found that super helpful
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing ! I made 16'x5' raised beds but buried 8' landscape timbers 2' under for all 4 corners and the middle of each long side (6 total). My "doors" are on both long sides but it is simply stretched 4' tall chicken wire between 2 2x2's separated in the middle (4 doors total). Works great for harvest and weeding. I have pole beans and mators so there is no "ceiling". This keeps the worst, deer and rabbit's, out of the garden. I wish I could post a picture of them here. also I surround the entire border with marigolds for animal repellent. I like the parts of your vid where theres no music and I can hear what's being said.
Thanks for your comment! I wish that I had put doors in... next time. I also plant marigolds, it works pretty well.
I would love to have more specific instructions for building the raised bed cages. I am also having trouble with critters, specifically with rabbits, groundhogs and squirrels and I recently had two fox run through my yard. I don’t have much experience building things, have built a simple raised bed, but the cage is out of my league with just watching your video and winging it. Also, my main two beds are made of galvanized steel, so the hinges would be a problem, but I would be willing to lift it off and on if it protected my veggies.
Your video was awesome. I am going to make these ! Great that you gave your advice on things that you will change for next years cropl As for the Tall height, I would just cut out the one section of the chicken wire where you need the height and shape new chicken wire to the "Mountain Height and restaple. I will be putting my hinges on the sides to life vertical. at the length for more height room. You didnt miss any steps to your video. Well Done. Best to you and your family. Lori L
GENIUS. I'm having such an issue with squirrels and this might be my permanent solution. Thank you!
Squirrels will climb up the wire
@@annmarienoone9879 But if there's a roof of wire, too, I'm thinking that should work.
Do you have the plans for those beds?…I'm in the process of making a cover and your hinges covers look like the kind I need.
Very nice! I think I'll use hardware cloth instead of chicken wire, especially on the bottom. I like your 'would do it different' ideas, something I'd never think about, especially the tomatoes.
Hardware cloth would work great!
I would use hardware cloth on the top because every year we have multiple hail storms that decimate our crops.
4:55… I used the Lowes castle bricks and cedar wood planks. I WISH I had done this chicken wire along the bottom but I got a little too far and didn’t want to undo all the installed dirt. I hope I don’t regret this. 🙏
Great vid and beautiful garden
Good video good job enjoyed it rhx for sharing Be safe God Bless
Thanks for watching!
beautiful job
I had some success with a similar project in zone 5 winter gardening using plastic on sides secured with stapled furring strips and a hoop of fence on top secured to frame, just like yours with zip ties. The wire fence edges were jagged on plastic and on fleece. I have expermented with duck tape, it's effective but ugly. I am thinking about a rubberized paint just on rough edges. Anyway, if you screw in eyelets along bottom sides of raised bed and run rope over the top of the whole thing it secures the top and sides. I used the quick release knots, so i coukd easily tighten and loosen as needed, that is a must. I used more furring strips on sides with rows of plastic and a layer of fleece underneath along the hoop style roof to give warmth and allow some ventilation and water to pass to plants on warm/sunny days. I have 20 of these beds and it was too much to vent and water so, it was essential. I only grew kale, mizuna, winter lettuce brussel sprouts and spinach. They all survived weeks of frozen snow, but nothing thrived until this first march thaw. I planted everything in September ladt year. I am planning spiring vegetables now. I think next year i am going to cover beds with plastic in Feb to achieve early soil warming and put everything up in march to get a 2 month jump on spring crops.
Thanks for your comment! I was actually planning on doing something very similar to what you suggest and creating a little greenhouse. I think that it would have worked very well. The only challenge is that I am moving and so it didn't make sense to get a jump on a garden that I wasn't going to use. Great suggestion though!
Brilliant... Iam going to attempt this!
Give it a shot! It works great!
Thanks Dave!
Very much like the info you shared when talking about what you would do differently! that hinge style did look like it'd be a pain once the plants are actually growing.
Great job, fellow gardening nerd! 🤓 🌿💚🌱
Thanks!
This guy is cool, great guy thank you for the guide brotha!
for your cucumber zucchini bug issue, read up on companion planting such as some herbs planted beside those attacked could ward off those bugs and a homemade pepper spray could chase other insects away have a great day.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at that. I tried yellow flypaper, but it also trapped ladybugs and the adhesive was also not strong enough. The bad bugs would get stuck and then get free. The problem was I needed to do more preventive measures. By the time I saw them it was already too late. I won't make the same mistake again.
Pick the zucchini bug eggs off the bottoms of the leaves. I use duct tape to collect them.
Pretty
GREAT VIDEO! SUBSCRIBED!
Liked your video. Hope you are living a good life in 2021. This is the first year in 4 years of gardening that I don’t have a garden. Last year was hard and I lost everything. I couldn’t keep the bugs away and my plants were eaten. Maybe I’ll try next year.
Love it. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Would a counter balanced whinch work to just lift the cage straight up out oof the way work?
Nice idea for a cage.
I need some for groundhogs.
after you put chicken wire how did you move like that lol? 5:14
2020 is going OK :-) I need to cover my wife's flowers/plants. But the planters I
built for her are waist high. I will need to modify mine a little. Like your hat, I follow
the Morgans on TH-cam too :-)) Thanks for some ideas on frames for the plants.
Thanks! I am glad that you found it useful. The Morgan's are good friends. It was Melissa that encouraged me to start my TH-cam Channel!
@@DIYwithDave They are very cool people :-))
Definitely!
would it make more sense to build large protected green house and u don't have to worry about individual growled inside.
Did you install corner brackets (@ 6:06)?
Its a box. Plenty have shown a box. The great twist you got here is adding the chicken wire to the bottom. That is a great idea. Honestly you should add Rabbit and wood chuck proofing to your title. Probably get more hits. And yeah you need doors. If you are going that far may want a roof and add deer resistance to the list. Nice job.
Very good info. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful
This is a great idea and for me this is nice and neat. I was wondering about the height too, but for my smaller veggies, I could use this too. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽
This is perfect!
well, I learned something new. Thank you sir!
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Plant lots of catnip for cucumber beetles. It seems to keep them away pretty well......
Great video
Thanks!
Hey dude, appreciate the video! How did you find the corner wood support at 4:32 in the video, or did you build it? Please and thank you
I built it. I just took a 4x4 and notched out a corner.
@@DIYwithDave Thanks!
@DIYDave Great video. Next time consider putting cardboard on the bottom before filling with dirt. It helps kill the grass, prevent weeds and attracts worms 🪱.
That is a great idea. I need to build a few more and so I will try that one out.
This is the stage I am at I just put down my layer of newspaper and cardboard.
Brilliant 👏
When you opened your hinged tops didn’t you tear all the support vines from the cukes?
Have upgraded the cage to 5 light weight removable panels yet?✌️
No. I didn't get the chance because I moved. Here is a video to show the planters I built at my new place: th-cam.com/video/4Aa3V8yMkRM/w-d-xo.html
How do you open the cages over the fully grown tomatoes
Awesome!!!👍🏾
Thanks!
These are great ! Thank you ! 🌺✨
Why top of the enclosure is not closed? Can't squirrel climb it?
A squirrel could climb it, and so you could enclose it if you like, but I never had an issue with squirrels. Rabbits and deer were my problem.
Does it keep the rats out or do they just climb the fence
I make a spray with dawn dish soap and water to get rid of bugs
I'll have to try that.
Did you say your from PA?
Yep, just north of Pittsburgh, but I'm moving soon down south to Texas.
@@DIYwithDave I'm just south of Pittsburgh.
@@DIYwithDave To hot for me.
Not this week 😀
Being a complete novice at doing any do it yourself projects it would be extremely helpful if you listed all the tools needed to complete this project so I can endeavor to do this well tooled.
Yes, i would love that! I am so new ti DIY
Great idea, but it looks like some of the plants get smooshed by the cage when it's opened and closed. You should definitely add doors to the bottom next season.
Yeah, I had to be really careful not to shut some of the plants in the doors. I will definitely be making some changes next season to make sure that it works better.
@@DIYwithDave omg yes! if you could make another video next year with the same sized beds but somehow put doors on them, my dream will be made. i cant seem to find any diy videos for smaller beds like these but with doors (it would be so perfect) p.s. just subscribed
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Don’t forget that your zucchini flowers need to be pollinated. Bees and other insects need to get to the flowers or you will have to hand pollinate. Watch a few videos about squash bugs, you can collect the eggs off the leaves to help cut down on damage.
It's...CHICKEN wire. NOT hardware cloth.
What can I use for table top?
If you have had squash vine borers, they may now be in your soil, which sucks! Otherwise I would cover with floating row cover and hand pollinate or have a squash box that is covered with screen. Summer squash are prolific producers.
I did have squash vine borers 😕. I was only able to save 2 of my zucchini plants last year. I have read about some soil treatments that I am going to try out this year to get rif of them.
What kind of staple gun do you have? Trying to do this with cedar and wondering if I can do it with a hand staple gun or if I need an electric one
Hey love the Teal Themed Colors but also consider building a treehouse over just a house that tears down the forest. Trees should be building blocks no tearing blocks. It can be funky and swirlyio just needs a bit of adjusting imagination and blueprinting and there we go and inventive you might get more followers because your not just helping humanity but your helping the World. We are not only making channels grow but It inspire others to experiment and TH-cam Channels will grow when we choose to help the world 2 ways in one stone. Building a tree house and putting gardens in it. It can maybe make new species
Very informative video! You're a natural! You have a nice family, also!I subscribed!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thankyou Dave for doingthis video. This exactly what I need to do! However my containers are smaller and plastic, so I can’t hinge them, what do you recommend? How would you do a round container?
Great video! Has it been effective? (Deer are my main issue)
Yes it has! I considered putting chicken wire on the top, but opted not to. I did have something eat some of my peppers as they grew tall. It could have been deer. My tomatoes, though, grew tall and nothing touched them.
What kind of sprayer did you use with the lindseed oil? Thanks. Great video.
Please tell me the dimensions of the wood you used to build the cage.
The base of the cages matched the top of the raised bed. The two smaller cages were about 2 feet tall and the larger one was about 3 feet tall and the rest of the measurements I made on the fly as I built it.
Chicken wire on the bottom will fail after a couple years. It rusts and gofers will chew through it eventually. It's better to put 1/2 inch hardware cloth.
I might have missed it but what is the thickness of the board 1” or 2”?
Kreg Jig Blue screws are not for exterior. they will rust away in time. nice project though
Great idea for the existing raised beds I have that were devastated by @#$% squirrels last season. What were the dimensions of the wood you used? I'm trying to do this with 2x2s but am having a hard time joining them securely.
Sorry I spelt it wrong NEEM OIL, ALSO PEPPERMINT
why not built enclose for whole raised beds like a few big cages? Then you can grow tomatoes who want to grow high.
You could absolutely do that. I didn't want to take up as much space and so I opted to do wach one individually.
I put out homemade landmines, but since I did it while halfway down a bottle of Beam, I don't remember where they are. Now I can't go in my yard ever again.
Should of used hardware cloth on the bottom
Nice video. Can you please turn down the level of your music a little. I’m not enjoying the loud music you put in between your talking. I’m having to keep on adjusting the volume all the time. Thanks. I assume not all your listeners are young and enjoy loud music. 👂👂👂👂👂
I bet you could drink the whole can! LOL!
Look up need oil for bugs
I'll check it out.
👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Fred!
A raised bed, that just had DIRTY dumped over the lawn into the box? Why on earth wouldn't you have taken the sod out first, and put a gardeners liner in the bottom so the weeds can't come up? The grass is going to grow right up through the soil!! The Dirt DOES NOT KILL IT. It only takes longer to grow up through it.
NO mesh on the top of the cages? Do you think squirrels and birds and such can't figure that out? This is just nonsense.
Sorry you didn't like it. I was going to put mesh on the top but instead of going to that trouble I decided to see how it would be first. I can always add mesh later, I thought. Well, it worked out fine. No problems with squirrels or birds at all. I think the biggest problem I have here is rabbits.
On the grass, again I decided that it wasn't worth all the trouble to remove the sod first. And that has also worked fine. I have only had ocassional blades of grass; no more than what could have blown in naturally.
@@DIYwithDave from the experiences of friends who also did the beds over grass, it eventually will come up in full force as theirs did. They emptied their beds, and put down gardeners cloth, and put all their dirt back in. They also have serious deer problems. Especially eating their hostas and other garden flowers and vegetable crops. Even crows pecking their tomatoes. where there's a will there's a way.
Have a look at SHAWИEE HILLS WORKSHOP Raised Bed Garden which would have worked out great for you. Episode E82 if I remember right.
As ever I wish all the home gardeners the best of luck. I grew up on a 400 acre dairy & crops farm and much of what we did was by trial and error,, so videos are a sensational tool for helping avoid some of those errors and the helpful hints.
I'll check it out. Thanks!
.....sorry but always you and yourself am always watching but not mostly your garden😢
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EVERYTHING except your voice is LOUD! .....
*Hello there, I have requested your DVDs, for simpler and quicker approach to manufacture a shed **Allmy.Tips** I trust the substance are as you guaranteed it will be. Just I'm worried with the substance, it won't be anything but difficult to settle on a decision from the various plans.*
Thanks!