Raised Garden Beds in Arizona | Creating Soil in Raised Beds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Today we're filling our raised garden beds and starting to create living soil.
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The best thing which kept me glued to this channel is turning a dessert land into farm. Curious to watch the growth of the plants..
Hey there! Glad you're enjoying the content. So far we're seeing success and failures, so we'll keep sharing everything we can!
You are the "Miracle Farm" of southern desert. Thank you.
Well, we're hoping to inspire folks to do the same. I get the feeling there are a lot more folks out there right now doing this and more. We just enjoy sharing what we're doing more than many of the gardeners and farmers that we've met.
Here, here! Right!!!??? Big Smiles (Thank God, cuz nobody gets this desert stuff, lol)
Have you seen the documentary on Selah Ranch?
You folks inspire me! I need to go out and get to work....:)
Hey Dan! It is fall planting season, so we're right there with you!
The sandy loam soil looks like it will drain really well. With some organic matter it will really come alive with worm activity. When we first started building soil I shredded all of our moving boxes and put that on the bottom of our raised beds before adding horse manure that we aged, used coffee grounds, straw and homemade compost. As they settle we just add more of our homemade compost and woodchip mulch. Great job and thank you for sharing.
That is a solid practice. We're trying to build these a bit faster than we did on the old property. There we put this soil in the beds where it sat for 2 years before we touched it. The structure is great, but boy does it need a LOT of help before we can refer to it as "soil". Need to get on your routine of picking up bulk coffee grounds every week. That stuff is magic with our soils.
Hey D&L. Love the steady progress.
Hey Allan! Yeah, it's just an exciting time of year to finally be able to get things in the ground and start using all the infrastructure that went in this summer.
my father in law used to use shredded news paper under the trees
Shredded newspaper would be a very good attractant for worms. Our woodchips serve a similar function with the leaves they contain.
New subscriber here, and just wanted to say what an absolute joy to watch people filled with joy! I'm a flower and shrub gardener, but I just got some grapes!
Hey there, glad you found us! We enjoy sharing with everyone and learn a lot from our viewers as well. It's a lot of work, but being a part of nature like this is just natural and inspiring. Most everyone we meet gets hooked by the gardening bug when they see what can be done. So what kind of flowers and shrubs are you growing?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Here in central Florida its very limited, but I love my Myrtles, Hydrangeas, Plumbago and Bougainvilleas. I planted Campsis Radicans into dead trees 5 years ago, and they flowered for the first time this year. Certainly takes patience!
@@CraftEccentricity oh my goodness, that is patience defined!
Our home closed on Sept. 21st and now starting all over again and of of course this soil is dead but I'll get it up to power and it's short while I hope. I normally put out 350 to 450 in plants this year will not be so much I too will be doing cover some crops I've never done raised beds but I made after watching your Channel thanks for the different ideals
Hey Pamela, woohoo on your closing!!! We know just how you feel starting over from scratch. The good thing is you can get cover crops in the ground first before putting your production crops in. So excited for you!!
You are right that is just dirt!
It will take a lot of work to make true soil. In my gardens in Phx about three years of layers of compost!
Sounds like you know what we're up against Roger! Lots of organic matter and a bit of time make all the difference!
You've got to grow some Bok Choy. It grows really well during our Arizona winters.
We just ordered our seeds and went back and forth on bok choy. We only have 3 beds that will be up and running this year, but we need to get that in the ground for sure. Thanks for the suggestion!
I enjoyed the comment last video on how you get your hoses to behave themselves. Ill have to remember to straighten it out and not roll it too tightly ;)
Hey Eric! One of the advantages to our warm/hot weather you can pretty much use that trick year round!
If you can get onto used Coffee Grounds they will help to feed the Worms and also help to break down the wood chip into soil over a period of time.
Great suggestion Gary and you're right, they would make an excellent addition to our composting. We keep all of the grounds we use in the house for that very purpose, but have not brought in large quantities from other sources..at least as of yet!
Excellent
Hey Abid, thanks. Glad you're enjoying these.
Thank you I'm definitely going to do a huge area of cover crop for my spring and summer garden it will be the first time I've done cover crops but I think it's really beneficial for dead so-called soil
Hey Pamela! This is our first time doing them "officially". We've put them in beds before, but not to this extent with the intention of adding that fertility.
I have never done cover crops either. I just planted our garden last week. So, I am going to watch you do it and maybe next year I will follow you.
@@TheFatTheist I will be filming the cover crop planting and some other things as I do them I have a channel I guess I should put something on it my grandchildren set it up without telling me for the longest time
@@TheFatTheist this is our first time attempting it also and we're trying to judge timing. Our summers are just so hot it makes it difficult to plant a cover for the fall beds in the summer. We're thinking it might work to plant them out next spring and cover with woodchips for the summer to prep them. We'll see how we do.
Love seeing your experiments to improve your soil. Also a gardener in Az. I will be adding a couple more raised beds in my backyard. I was wondering if you have tried core gardening methods yet? I saw MI Gardener hurt some small straw bales in the center of his beds and they provided great moisture and decaying material to feed and enrich the soil. I was thinking of using it to help improve my native sandy soil here. Just wondering if you had done any? Thanks for sharing!
Hey Mary, I'm familiar with straw bale gardening, but haven't tried either method. The straw is a great addition to feed the soil, so I suppose it would definitely be worth a shot.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I have always been curious about hugelkulter gardens and also very interested in core gardening. When reading about it, it really sounds like a great solution to many of our desert struggles(nutritious soil, moisture loss, bacteria, composting in place). I haven't found a good source of wood for a hugelkulter locally yet but I am hoping to use some core gardening aspects to help in my beds. I have my first raised bed half filled with branches and old mulch and native garden soil. Then topped it with compost. It is only 4x4 but doing well so far. Still takes a good amount of water and the soil level decreased by about 25 % depth in one growing season due to decomposition and condensing. Sorry about the long post. I love to watch other Az gardeners to see how they are succeding. Happy growing and best wishes!
@@maryshearer663 definitely sounds like you're on the right path!
how much you pay for the straw and where you get it ?????
That's a great question! We buy our straw from Dale's Town and Country in Surprise/Waddell and they charge around $9/bale.
please, please, please do a bit of sound engineering.... your voice comes across at about 40 db., yet your music interludes come across at about 90-95 db. at the same volume settings for me!... talk about blowing my ears off!! I think it would be safe to say that the smooth instructions are great but the skrillex refrains are a bit .... uncomfortable.
Hey Tammy. This was prior to our new sound setup, so we have it all in order these days. Doesn't help this older content though....