wow...how absolutely lovely...they have transformed the whole yard into an oasis of fun...we go into a project like this with nothing but happy thoughts and you will deal with the occasional pesky root or bug that pays a visit...but, that will be minuscule compared to the abundance of veg you'll have at your fingertips...and the roses are looking good...josh did a great job and could have his own TH-cam site to teach us how to put it all together...ha ha ha
I've just watched your video. I've found your video to be very informative and well presented. Your choice of wood and why you decided on it was a first for me and I shall look at improving my own set up. Thank you. Well done.
I can imagine how lovely would be in the summer cooking and looking truth the window seeing all those beautiful greens. I also did some raised beds and filled them this weekend unfortunately they are in my small garden and not near my home like yours. Keep the good work!
The one thing that will help the bed last, add side supports half way down the long ends. And also char the wood and it will repel more water over time. Great information!
They are lovely. I used pine 12x16 boards...but had to cut them down to 14 ft. I have filled them with all sorts of things over the years. Bagged manure, compost and topsoil. Delivered from the landscape company "garden soil" (way too sandy) and compost. My own chicken manure, leaves and grass clippings. Every year some soil disappears. So I have a routine. Manure in the fall so it can break down over the Winter and compost in the Spring is added. :) Have fun with the beautiful new gardens! Maybe some Asparagus? That's my next thought :)
It was finally nice enough this weekend to get some work in on mine. Because I have the space, I moved mine further out into my yard. Plus I added 3 more.
Hi Tanya, I garden in the Pacific Northwest and have had problems over the years with redwood roots getting into my Vegetable beds. After about 2 years the beds would be difficult to get a shovel into due to the wire like Fine roots which can travel more than 50 ft from the base of the tree looking for water and nutrients. I have raised my beds on pallets with fabric cloth weed barrier under the bed, so far this has worked, A neighbor uses pond liner which after a few years has worked for her. I hope your neighboring roots aren’t as invasive as redwoods! Good luck!
I found your upload very good and informative and generally in parallel to my thought process when I went raised beds on my allotment. I have 12No at present 12' 0" x 4' 0" (these are standard length of timber) I am on a sloping site. I have trees and blackthorn hedges root go underneath the beds but not up. Raised beds are quick draining so the water the trees and hedges take does not seem to affect my regime. Thankfully no flatworms. I think you are spot on with the choice and size of lumber. Take care Mike.
I enjoyed the video, it answered a couple of questions i had. I'm just starting out, live on a .5 acre lot and want to start two raised bed for next spring. I'm have to do it on a tight budget . The area I'm starting it on is nothing but weeds so putting down a landscape or weed fabric was one question answered the other was lumber. Using cedar was the the other then pressure treated was the last. I did subscribe for future advice and know how. Thanks a bunch.
I was lucky to have my own sawmill and free cedar trees. I cut 6 X 6 and used the edge boards to make climbing grids. I have a couple videos of it. I hope I never have to go back to not using raised beds. I always love your videos!
Your garden looks so beautiful.. I can’t wait to see what it look like when you put your edibles in.. my father in law just built two 4x8 raised beds its pressure treated wood which was I could afford but I lined it with landscape fabric.. all I need to do now is get the soil. Thank you for sharing ❤️
You can order top soil in bags that are a cubic metre (yard I imagine in your parts?) that's much more cost effective. I could have done that here too but feared introducing the New Zealand Flatworm into my garden.
Ah great video I’ve been wanting to just wood for a more permanent raised bed but always worried about treated wood. But I’ll have a look if I can find what you’ve used 😬👍🏻
It's looking good! I have a lot of the same issues here with the slop, erosion, and tree and bush roots everywhere even popping out of the soil in some places. I do have a few beds already done at the most level spot I could find. They are hugel inspired raised beds so I dug about a foot down. Hate to say but I chopped some little roots off along the way. Then filled them with logs, sticks and all that stuff. Then I put the boarder up at ground level and filled with composted horse manure and other organic matter. Unfortunately, this is only a prime growing space during fall and winter. I've been using pots during the spring and summer months and a very limited flat ground space. It's just so many pots and really limits what I can grow, not to mention everything needs to be watered more often. I think I will do a raised bed sort of style or at least a boarder. Maybe make the border work with the landscape and curve around instead of the square/rectangular boxes. Thanks for sharing. Excited to see color popping from your garden soon.
Thanks for sharing. I did not realise you could use so much man manure. I normal buy well rotted manure from my local farm. The other cost is protective frames for nets. Allot of birds, foxes and squirrels frequent my garden.
Oh yes, I used a couple inches of manure on my beds every year, at least. It comes free from an equestrian centre so it's just transport that we pay for. Netting will be over those beds too by the way -- loads of birds and cats in my neighbourhood.
I'm with my raised beds near trees. Every autumn I go digging in them for the little tree roots and take them out. Then I apply compost and manure and yes they come back in spring/summer for the water etc.....
@@Lovelygreens I got two high raised beds (facing south) under some chestnut trees. For them I used liner (and cement a sort of very big pot with holes + liner). The other 6 beds are not under the crowns of the trees, but still..... For them I didn't use liner when making them. So it's a bit of work in autumn... The roots are not that big, but it's not no digging what I should want :-)
What is a 'no dig bed'? I have to build some combination raised beds/cold frames, using some windows I salvaged from a hundred year old house down the road which they were tearing down. One video I watched mentioned that if you are using old windows, give the frames a couple of coats of latex paint, in case the paint on them contains lead. Good idea, it would never have occurred to me.
I can understand how the invasive flat worm problem has caused you to do such extensive research. I have given up on raised beds since following Charles Dowding s No Dig methods , although a framework helps when forming and filling. I would lay a 6" layer of compost and shrubs near the treeline , rather than trying to fight the tree roots forever!
I spoke with Charles about my flatworm issue a couple years ago. I was concerned that going no-dig would be a mistake with my not having worms in the allotment garden. Thanks to his reassurance, and the success story of a garden in northern Ireland with the same pest, I turned that garden over to no-dig. The home garden won't be thanks to the tree roots I'll be contending with though.
i have raised beds in my backyard. 1 square meter each, so i can rich all of the surface of it. i put horse manure in the bottom, then simple soil, (the hight of each bed is 50 cm). have a lot of earth warm and lice warm (the gray one that rolls to a small ball, sorry don't remember the name of those. do have a long space that has a lot of shade that i put mirrors to reflect the sun (gather the mirrors in charity shops), the type of wood for raised beds are pine. now it is almost 5 years ago, and i see signs of degrading. but may b i will change those wood to beton blocks. good luck with the garden!!
I was going to do the wood raised bed as well but I realized the wood will rot eventually . Luckily, I found some on Amazon that are rot resistant and made of a very good quality plastic. NuVue product The photo doesn't do it justice and a good tough quality Plastic product. I do love the natural look of the wood though. I wish for you great success in yours.
cool video, we put in some raised beds to protect against rabbit damage and to start reclaiming a hillside, so it was dug into the slope - this in itself was a challenge as what seemed high on one side was really low on the other. We created a 'skirt' of landscape fabric and then layered the internal with thick card and compost to start in. video editing comment - it seems that this vid had the music volume much higher than your dialogue, other than that it was good! thanks!
We have a tree root problem in our garden as well as it's long and narrow with trees growing on the borders. It took us forever to dig the soil for planting potatoes. Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about except put up with it.
Hi there, thanks for this really informative video. I expect a year later during the Covid Pandemic you’re especially appreciative of all your home grown produce 🙂 Can I ask two questions please - firstly, how are you getting on a year later with the roots? We have to place our beds in a corner plot with pretty wild / thuggish shrubs and weeds inc brambles on the other side or our boundary. Has the landscaping fabric been sufficient in suppressing them? Also, in terms of the soil mix, I keep reading that you shouldn’t use any compost if planting carrots as it makes them fork/split. But how does this work with a) the best regarded mix you mention of top soil, compost and aerated product and b) crop rotation? i.e. if you want to plant carrots in a bed that you were previously growing something else in, so it had compost, but then you wanted to plant carrots? Apparently carrots should be in soil that hasn’t had any compost for at least a year. I’d be very interested in your thoughts on this and also if you’ve grown carrots successfully in your bed soil which has plenty of compost in it. Many thanks and I’m finding your YT channel and website incredibly helpful and inspiring 👏
Great video, love your channel. We just did a similar project in our garden and now have 13 raised beds. Then the question was, what shall we put in them? I go out every morning and stare at them in the hope that my seeds will come up quicker!! So far the beans are winning but the carrots and potatoes are very slow. My wife (the other half of this raised bed team) says I am impatient.
I live in New Zealand and have never seen that worm, my dad is a great gardener we lived in north island until I was ten years old and used to be in the garden with him. And I have been a gardener myself for thirty seven years in the bottom of the South Island and still never seen that worm.Was wondering has anyone in NZ seen this worm? Is it found in normal gardens?
Diane Irvine I understand that they thrive in wild wetlands in New Zealand where they’ve evolved to be part of the ecosystem. Here, without predators, they’re an absolute catastrophe.
Why wouldn't you level out the raised beds, giving them sort of a terraced appearance (deeper at one end than the other)? Seems like that would keep things from getting uneven water and help with erosion to one end of the bed. I am not much of a gardener, though, just wondering. Love your videos.
I originally had that plan that but it didn’t seem worth it after pricing up the timber, countering in the additional labour, and seeing only potential benefits. Fingers crossed I made the right decision 🤞
I can no longer bend to maintain my raised vegetable beds. I am looking for waist high design solutions. Since I grow primarily lettuces that have shallow root systems, I am wondering about just placing planter boxes on top of tables. Also, for other veggies that might need more room, make height of open raised beds about the height I could comfortably reach by sitting on a bench. I have seen the use of corrugated metal to build high beds, and you have to fill the bottom of beds with cuttings, etc...anyway, any more wisdom out there?
Hello, thanks for all the tips and advice in this video. Can I just ask, I’m very new to vegetable growing/gardening and have recently started three raised beds, that I have filled with nothing but compost. Is this going to be a problem, do I need to dig in any topsoil before I start planting ? Thanks for any help. Take care Mark.
I use pressure treated wood 🪵 and I also paint 🎨 my wood 360 to protect it from moisture I line the inside with a moisture barrier placed against the wood to protect the wood 🪵 and then a weed liner, wire mesh to protect it from gophers and chipmunks 🐿. The dirt is composted wood 🪵, leaves 🍁, coconut core, Banana peels, cow manure, vegetable matter, eggs shells 🐚, fish 🐠 carcasses yes I said fish 🐟 carcasses that sit inside my garden for six or more weeks with worms 🪱 eating their way around and through them. My dirt is black and rich 🤑 with ingredient from aging those ingredients through the cold 🥶 of Georgia winter ❄️ rapped in plastic just waiting for 45 degrees night temperatures and warm day time temperatures that’s when I Plaint my garden.
Is there no natural flatworm predator? I have never heard of faltworms before, difficult and interesting problem. Seems they are a real environmental problem. I like the use of manure. Does manure repel, resist, make the environment uninhabitable for the faltworms? Have you heard of ordering earthworms, and "farming" them? I have not done it, but I do not think it takes a lot of space, or long the worms multiply. Just a thought, not sure it would help you to do it after your explanation of flatworm staying dormant until earthworms recover.
Flatworms can shrivel up in size and go dormant for years. When earthworm populations rebound they come back to life. Also, an increase of new earthworms would only encourage the flatworms to increase too. Afraid there's nothing that can be done but to manually pick them off and hope that one day there's a better solution.
No-dig gardening means no digging over the soil as a gardening technique. Instead you use mulch to suppress weeds and feed the soil and plant directly into it. In the US it’s called no-till I believe.
I use pressure treated wood 🪵 and I also paint 🎨 my wood 360 to protect it from moisture I line the inside with a moisture barrier placed against the wood to protect the wood 🪵 and then a weed liner, wire mesh to protect it from gophers and chipmunks 🐿. The dirt is composted wood 🪵, leaves 🍁, coconut core, Banana peels, cow manure, vegetable matter, eggs shells 🐚, fish 🐠 carcasses yes I said fish 🐟 carcasses that sit inside my garden for six or more weeks with worms 🪱 eating their way around and through them. My dirt is black and rich 🤑 with ingredient from aging those ingredients through the cold 🥶 of Georgia winter ❄️ rapped in plastic just waiting for 45 degrees night temperatures and warm day time temperatures that’s when I Plaint my garden.
I love how they look. Not to mention that they will be higher and easier to reach and keep the weeds out. I am going to show this to my husband.
Raised beds make gardening so much more accessible. You could make them even taller if you wanted as well :)
Much information to consider with very helpful tips. Thanks much, and nice speaking tempo made it easy to follow!
wow...how absolutely lovely...they have transformed the whole yard into an oasis of fun...we go into a project like this with nothing but happy thoughts and you will deal with the occasional pesky root or bug that pays a visit...but, that will be minuscule compared to the abundance of veg you'll have at your fingertips...and the roses are looking good...josh did a great job and could have his own TH-cam site to teach us how to put it all together...ha ha ha
I think so too! He’s not keen though 😂
Those are very nice beds! Can't wait to see what you grow in them.
I've just watched your video. I've found your video to be very informative and well presented. Your choice of wood and why you decided on it was a first for me and I shall look at improving my own set up. Thank you. Well done.
Thanks Derek, I appreciate the feedback :)
I can imagine how lovely would be in the summer cooking and looking truth the window seeing all those beautiful greens.
I also did some raised beds and filled them this weekend unfortunately they are in my small garden and not near my home like yours. Keep the good work!
My other garden is a short drive away as well so I understand. It's so nice to have a garden forming within a pyjama's walk away :)
The one thing that will help the bed last, add side supports half way down the long ends.
And also char the wood and it will repel more water over time.
Great information!
Really love the way you're ensuring your beds are nutritious with future addition of top soil...
They are lovely. I used pine 12x16 boards...but had to cut them down to 14 ft. I have filled them with all sorts of things over the years. Bagged manure, compost and topsoil. Delivered from the landscape company "garden soil" (way too sandy) and compost. My own chicken manure, leaves and grass clippings. Every year some soil disappears. So I have a routine. Manure in the fall so it can break down over the Winter and compost in the Spring is added. :) Have fun with the beautiful new gardens! Maybe some Asparagus? That's my next thought :)
Lots of lovely organic matter going into your beds. You must have some incredible crops Dolly!
@@Lovelygreens I'm happy ❤
It was finally nice enough this weekend to get some work in on mine. Because I have the space, I moved mine further out into my yard. Plus I added 3 more.
Hi Tanya,
I garden in the Pacific Northwest and have had problems over the years with redwood roots getting into my
Vegetable beds. After about 2 years the beds would be difficult to get a shovel into due to the wire like
Fine roots which can travel more than 50 ft from the base of the tree looking for water and nutrients.
I have raised my beds on pallets with fabric cloth weed barrier under the bed, so far this has worked,
A neighbor uses pond liner which after a few years has worked for her. I hope your neighboring roots aren’t
as invasive as redwoods! Good luck!
And I thought my situation was going to be difficult! You didn't give up though and I commend you on that :) Garden beds on pallets is a clever idea
Thank you! I really appreciated your explanation and advice. I am about to build a raised vegetable garden and I will take it into account.
thank you for the info on pressure treatment chemicals.
Raised garden beds look great! Hate to hear about the earth worms. Look forward to your next video! Thanks!
I found your upload very good and informative and generally in parallel to my thought process when I went raised beds on my allotment. I have 12No at present 12' 0" x 4' 0" (these are standard length of timber) I am on a sloping site. I have trees and blackthorn hedges root go underneath the beds but not up. Raised beds are quick draining so the water the trees and hedges take does not seem to affect my regime. Thankfully no flatworms. I think you are spot on with the choice and size of lumber. Take care Mike.
Thanks Mike and that's reassuring that you're not having to deal with roots growing up into your beds.
Wow, things look great! You’ve been working hard I can tell. Can’t wait to see it all planted. 💗🌷💗
It took two full days to complete but it's in! Absolutely thrilled :)
I enjoyed the video, it answered a couple of questions i had. I'm just starting out, live on a .5 acre lot and want to start two raised bed for next spring. I'm have to do it on a tight budget . The area I'm starting it on is nothing but weeds so putting down a landscape or weed fabric was one question answered the other was lumber. Using cedar was the the other then pressure treated was the last. I did subscribe for future advice and know how. Thanks a bunch.
Beautiful gardener! Enjoy the knowledge shared. 🥰
I was lucky to have my own sawmill and free cedar trees. I cut 6 X 6 and used the edge boards to make climbing grids. I have a couple videos of it. I hope I never have to go back to not using raised beds. I always love your videos!
LUCKY! There's no cedar here to be had but it would be amazing to have hard wood raised beds.
The raised beds look fantastic I'm sure you will get some great crops, look forward to watching their progress 🌼
Your garden looks so beautiful.. I can’t wait to see what it look like when you put your edibles in.. my father in law just built two 4x8 raised beds its pressure treated wood which was I could afford but I lined it with landscape fabric.. all I need to do now is get the soil. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Looks great 😍
Many thanks!
Looks wonderful Tanya. This is exactly how I am doing mine. Just having difficulty finding topsoil that doesn't cost a fortune in bags.
You can order top soil in bags that are a cubic metre (yard I imagine in your parts?) that's much more cost effective. I could have done that here too but feared introducing the New Zealand Flatworm into my garden.
Lovely Greens oh I don’t blame you
Hoping to get two beds in 2 weeks .. your channel has inspired me 😃
How exciting! What do you plan on growing this year?
I’ve started seedlings of Swiss chard, beetroot, spinach, radish and tomato’s for the green house ... hopefully something will work out! 🤞🏻
Those are some Lovely Greens you have there.
They look beautiful!
Thank you so much :) And what a fascinating channel you have! New sub xx
@@Lovelygreens Thank you! I was binge-watching your channel last night. So much excellent information--really appreciate it.
Every time you bring up the NZ flatworm as a New Zealander I feel so guilty! Your new raised beds look beautiful! Can’t wait to see the progress.
Lol. So sorry Libby! Definitely not your fault :)
@@Lovelygreens Is it worth regularly transporting earthworms from your garden to your allotment?
Ah great video I’ve been wanting to just wood for a more permanent raised bed but always worried about treated wood. But I’ll have a look if I can find what you’ve used 😬👍🏻
Speak to the lumberyard and they’ll be able to give you guidance 🙂
Lovely Greens thanks for replying 😬 I’ll check tomorrow.
Thank you, this was very helpful
It's looking good! I have a lot of the same issues here with the slop, erosion, and tree and bush roots everywhere even popping out of the soil in some places. I do have a few beds already done at the most level spot I could find. They are hugel inspired raised beds so I dug about a foot down. Hate to say but I chopped some little roots off along the way. Then filled them with logs, sticks and all that stuff. Then I put the boarder up at ground level and filled with composted horse manure and other organic matter. Unfortunately, this is only a prime growing space during fall and winter. I've been using pots during the spring and summer months and a very limited flat ground space. It's just so many pots and really limits what I can grow, not to mention everything needs to be watered more often. I think I will do a raised bed sort of style or at least a boarder. Maybe make the border work with the landscape and curve around instead of the square/rectangular boxes. Thanks for sharing. Excited to see color popping from your garden soon.
Great video and very informative Tfs👍🏾👏🏾💗
I love the cat prints in the beds... my worst pest gardening.
A lot of people would agree! Cats cannot resist a ‘litter tray’
Make the most. On year 2 it feels worth it 👍
We are also putting in raised beds very soon. Although it is snowing today in Chicago.....
Snow in April...it must be frustrating to see everyone cracking on with spring gardening.
@@Lovelygreens Chicago weather never seems to amaze me... tomorrow it is suppose to be 68 degrees.
Thanks for sharing. I did not realise you could use so much man manure. I normal buy well rotted manure from my local farm. The other cost is protective frames for nets. Allot of birds, foxes and squirrels frequent my garden.
Oh yes, I used a couple inches of manure on my beds every year, at least. It comes free from an equestrian centre so it's just transport that we pay for. Netting will be over those beds too by the way -- loads of birds and cats in my neighbourhood.
I'm with my raised beds near trees. Every autumn I go digging in them for the little tree roots and take them out. Then I apply compost and manure and yes they come back in spring/summer for the water etc.....
What a job! Do you use a liner in your beds?
@@Lovelygreens I got two high raised beds (facing south) under some chestnut trees. For them I used liner (and cement a sort of very big pot with holes + liner). The other 6 beds are not under the crowns of the trees, but still..... For them I didn't use liner when making them. So it's a bit of work in autumn... The roots are not that big, but it's not no digging what I should want :-)
What is a 'no dig bed'? I have to build some combination raised beds/cold frames, using some windows I salvaged from a hundred year old house down the road which they were tearing down. One video I watched mentioned that if you are using old windows, give the frames a couple of coats of latex paint, in case the paint on them contains lead. Good idea, it would never have occurred to me.
I can understand how the invasive flat worm problem has caused you to do such extensive research. I have given up on raised beds since following Charles Dowding s No Dig methods , although a framework helps when forming and filling. I would lay a 6" layer of compost and shrubs near the treeline , rather than trying to fight the tree roots forever!
I spoke with Charles about my flatworm issue a couple years ago. I was concerned that going no-dig would be a mistake with my not having worms in the allotment garden. Thanks to his reassurance, and the success story of a garden in northern Ireland with the same pest, I turned that garden over to no-dig. The home garden won't be thanks to the tree roots I'll be contending with though.
Great job! You'll have a lot of space to grow vegetables in...
i have raised beds in my backyard. 1 square meter each, so i can rich all of the surface of it.
i put horse manure in the bottom, then simple soil, (the hight of each bed is 50 cm).
have a lot of earth warm and lice warm (the gray one that rolls to a small ball, sorry don't remember the name of those. do have a long space that has a lot of shade that i put mirrors to reflect the sun (gather the mirrors in charity shops), the type of wood for raised beds are pine. now it is almost 5 years ago, and i see signs of degrading. but may b i will change those wood to beton blocks. good luck with the garden!!
I love the idea of your collecting mirrors to brighten up a space! I may need to borrow that from you Becky :)
Love the way you shaved your head, grew a beard and tattooed your arms to build your beds.
LOL! We're a team :) He assembled the pieces and I dug the bleepin' holes to sink the bed's stakes into. I sadly had to fill the beds on my own.
I was going to do the wood raised bed as well but I realized the wood will rot eventually . Luckily, I found some on Amazon that are rot resistant and made of a very good quality plastic. NuVue product The photo doesn't do it justice and a good tough quality Plastic product. I do love the natural look of the wood though. I wish for you great success in yours.
cool video, we put in some raised beds to protect against rabbit damage and to start reclaiming a hillside, so it was dug into the slope - this in itself was a challenge as what seemed high on one side was really low on the other. We created a 'skirt' of landscape fabric and then layered the internal with thick card and compost to start in.
video editing comment - it seems that this vid had the music volume much higher than your dialogue, other than that it was good! thanks!
I'm going to build some soon but I'm going to use commercial landscaping fabric and concrete cinder blocks just dry stacked together🌶🍈🍒🥕🌽🍅
Watch out for the concrete as it will throw off the pH of the soil over time.
They look great, I'm sure you'll get great crops from them :-)
We have a tree root problem in our garden as well as it's long and narrow with trees growing on the borders. It took us forever to dig the soil for planting potatoes.
Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about except put up with it.
Hi there, thanks for this really informative video. I expect a year later during the Covid Pandemic you’re especially appreciative of all your home grown produce 🙂
Can I ask two questions please - firstly, how are you getting on a year later with the roots? We have to place our beds in a corner plot with pretty wild / thuggish shrubs and weeds inc brambles on the other side or our boundary. Has the landscaping fabric been sufficient in suppressing them?
Also, in terms of the soil mix, I keep reading that you shouldn’t use any compost if planting carrots as it makes them fork/split. But how does this work with a) the best regarded mix you mention of top soil, compost and aerated product and b) crop rotation? i.e. if you want to plant carrots in a bed that you were previously growing something else in, so it had compost, but then you wanted to plant carrots? Apparently carrots should be in soil that hasn’t had any compost for at least a year.
I’d be very interested in your thoughts on this and also if you’ve grown carrots successfully in your bed soil which has plenty of compost in it. Many thanks and I’m finding your YT channel and website incredibly helpful and inspiring 👏
Great video, love your channel. We just did a similar project in our garden and now have 13 raised beds. Then the question was, what shall we put in them? I go out every morning and stare at them in the hope that my seeds will come up quicker!! So far the beans are winning but the carrots and potatoes are very slow. My wife (the other half of this raised bed team) says I am impatient.
You are! haha :) If you want instant effect, you could start with a few plants from the garden centre? I tend to do that myself.
I need to have a outdoor run lol. Cheers everyone!!! ✌🇨🇦
I live in New Zealand and have never seen that worm, my dad is a great gardener we lived in north island until I was ten years old and used to be in the garden with him. And I have been a gardener myself for thirty seven years in the bottom of the South Island and still never seen that worm.Was wondering has anyone in NZ seen this worm? Is it found in normal gardens?
Diane Irvine I understand that they thrive in wild wetlands in New Zealand where they’ve evolved to be part of the ecosystem. Here, without predators, they’re an absolute catastrophe.
Why wouldn't you level out the raised beds, giving them sort of a terraced appearance (deeper at one end than the other)? Seems like that would keep things from getting uneven water and help with erosion to one end of the bed. I am not much of a gardener, though, just wondering. Love your videos.
I originally had that plan that but it didn’t seem worth it after pricing up the timber, countering in the additional labour, and seeing only potential benefits. Fingers crossed I made the right decision 🤞
I can no longer bend to maintain my raised vegetable beds. I am looking for waist high design solutions. Since I grow primarily lettuces that have shallow root systems, I am wondering about just placing planter boxes on top of tables. Also, for other veggies that might need more room, make height of open raised beds about the height I could comfortably reach by sitting on a bench. I have seen the use of corrugated metal to build high beds, and you have to fill the bottom of beds with cuttings, etc...anyway, any more wisdom out there?
I'm having trouble finding your blog about these raised beds. Where can I find it?. They look great!!
Here it is: lovelygreens.com/building-raised-garden-beds/
You’ve convinced me that it’s okay to use treated timber, but where did you source yours? Is it from a UK chain and if so, which one?
Hello, thanks for all the tips and advice in this video. Can I just ask, I’m very new to vegetable growing/gardening and have recently started three raised beds, that I have filled with nothing but compost. Is this going to be a problem, do I need to dig in any topsoil before I start planting ?
Thanks for any help.
Take care
Mark.
You'll get a better texture if you add top soil but it you don't it's no big deal. Plants will happily grow in pure compost.
Lovely Greens. That’s great, thank you very much for getting back to me 👍🏻
Are the things on the grass, wooden pavers or do it yourself sidewalk out of wood? Or what are they they look nice.
They're stone pavers that we placed there. Eventually they sat in pea gravel when we added it around the beds.
I use pressure treated wood 🪵 and I also paint 🎨 my wood 360 to protect it from moisture I line the inside with a moisture barrier placed against the wood to protect the wood 🪵 and then a weed liner, wire mesh to protect it from gophers and chipmunks 🐿.
The dirt is composted wood 🪵, leaves 🍁, coconut core, Banana peels, cow manure, vegetable matter, eggs shells 🐚, fish 🐠 carcasses yes I said fish 🐟 carcasses that sit inside my garden for six or more weeks with worms 🪱 eating their way around and through them. My dirt is black and rich 🤑 with ingredient from aging those ingredients through the cold 🥶 of Georgia winter ❄️ rapped in plastic just waiting for 45 degrees night temperatures and warm day time temperatures that’s when I Plaint my garden.
Do you line your raised beds or use weed cloth?
Is this wood available in USA? If yes, please point to a store website.
Is there no natural flatworm predator? I have never heard of faltworms before, difficult and interesting problem. Seems they are a real environmental problem. I like the use of manure. Does manure repel, resist, make the environment uninhabitable for the faltworms? Have you heard of ordering earthworms, and "farming" them? I have not done it, but I do not think it takes a lot of space, or long the worms multiply. Just a thought, not sure it would help you to do it after your explanation of flatworm staying dormant until earthworms recover.
Flatworms can shrivel up in size and go dormant for years. When earthworm populations rebound they come back to life. Also, an increase of new earthworms would only encourage the flatworms to increase too. Afraid there's nothing that can be done but to manually pick them off and hope that one day there's a better solution.
Cannot raised beds also be no dig beds?
can anyone give me examples of the 20 percent materials needed? like what sort of draining materials
Hello how much would you say each of your raised beds was?
What was the thickness and width of each plank of wood ? Cheers
What size timbers are used in this video?
All the specific information on sizes, etc is on my website here: lovelygreens.com/building-raised-garden-beds/
All those roots you mention are going to make their way into your raised beds anyway.
I make my beds out of recycle pallets. You can get them free from a lot of business just have to put in the work to Tate them a part.
I've used pallets for years -- the pallet beds I shared in the video were mine. The wood just doesn't last very long. Five years max.
Are you Irish?
Do you have a video on keeping rabbits & deer from ruining a new garden?
How tall are your vegetable beds?
What is “no dig?”
No-dig gardening means no digging over the soil as a gardening technique. Instead you use mulch to suppress weeds and feed the soil and plant directly into it. In the US it’s called no-till I believe.
music so loud X.X
Music is way too loud
I use pressure treated wood 🪵 and I also paint 🎨 my wood 360 to protect it from moisture I line the inside with a moisture barrier placed against the wood to protect the wood 🪵 and then a weed liner, wire mesh to protect it from gophers and chipmunks 🐿.
The dirt is composted wood 🪵, leaves 🍁, coconut core, Banana peels, cow manure, vegetable matter, eggs shells 🐚, fish 🐠 carcasses yes I said fish 🐟 carcasses that sit inside my garden for six or more weeks with worms 🪱 eating their way around and through them. My dirt is black and rich 🤑 with ingredient from aging those ingredients through the cold 🥶 of Georgia winter ❄️ rapped in plastic just waiting for 45 degrees night temperatures and warm day time temperatures that’s when I Plaint my garden.