I really like how long this bed is but I checked the USA website and the longest bed on there is around 5 feet. I think this one is around 8 feet. I wonder if they will start selling these long beds in the U.S. I love your videos. Thanks for this series.
Hey Mark, do you have any discount codes for the birdies raised garden beds in Australia? I’ve bought my first one a few days ago from Bunnings but I’d rather you get the commission than them for the next 5 more I buy
G'day Cerae! I'm glad you have found the bed useful and being a healthy eating conscientious food gardener as you are I'm sure you'll get many years of growing out of your raised vegetable garden. Cheers :)
Cerae Mitchell Hi Cerae! I’m so jealous!!!! Ha! Anyhow, do you mind sharing the nitty gritty details of every single thing you planted? Share!!! It’d be awesome to see a picture of how the bed looks now. Thanks!!!
I'd like to add a tip! My local nurseryman suggested that, when building beds like this, to water thoroughly at every layer. This makes it much easier to get the initial moisture throughout the bed. You could also add whatever organic fertilizers at different levels as well . . and/or worms, your kitchen compost, etc. You get the idea. Thanks for this video!!
Love it! The structure of this bed reminds me of a horse watering trough. I am in the USA, and in my area, we have terrible problems with burrowing rodents like groundhogs, moles, rabbits, etc. So my only suggestion is in the very bottom of the bed, before you add any organic matter, I would insert strong wire fencing which has very small holes. That way, animals cannot come up from the ground and steal the crops. Otherwise, I am picturing a few of these beds in my future!
Our new favourite show from Canada. We put in 2 raised brick grden beds with pipe drainage too. One is for vegetables and anlther berries. We got a large , tall garden bed made too.
This is one of my favorite gardening videos. Thanks Mark, for taking us through it & giving us that "Yes, We Can!" Feeling. Encouragement is so important when one is either starting out or trying to expand. 😂🌻
Thank you from America for your videos. My husband and I are now using raised beds made from free pallets we get from a business around the corner. We use branches, yard waste and logs to half fill them. So far so good!!!!
I'm container gardening in a rooftop right now, but we're going to be buying a house in a year or so and I'm so, so excited to fill the yard with garden beds!
Hey mate, how are you? I just wanted to say how much your videos mean to me. I live with moderate depression, grew up in the long grass, so understand being a bit prepared, and with covid and shit I decided to grow some veggies. With the magic of you tube I discovered your channel, and love it! Since March I have built a kitchen garden that I think will produce a heap of food for us, and gives me a regular chillout session. Thanks for your work mate, and keep it up!
What a great idea for a project! This year I did 5 gal. buckets for my garden and enjoyed a good potato harvest and good green peppers. No luck with the squashes. and the cabbages were a total fail. But at least a start was made.
Earl Rumble Hi Earl! I just got started this year too! I did ten 20-gallon grow pots & some things (cucumbers, tomatoes & peppers did well but my squash & lettuce did not!). I didn’t know how/when to harvest my lettuce so it went bitter! Good luck to you & thanks for sharing :)
Great energy and good advice. I have just retired from teaching after 30 years and are ready to nurture myself and my environment. What better way than to start a vegetable garden, right? I would love to see an easier way for one person to set up a garden bed. In the video, I could see a whole crew putting this garden bed together, I only have two hands. Also, if you could slow down and explain the kind of materials you used to set up netting, I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much for inspiring me to be more self sufficient. We are cheering you on from Mission Viejo, California. Maria Lucia
Hello Maria, This weekend I put together 2 of these beds on my own. It’s possible although it takes longer on your own. I didn’t get the waist high (80cm) version because my garden is so small. I bought the 40cm beds. They’re truly awesome.
I've been binging your videos and you've inspired the heck out of me. I'm ordering two Birdies raised beds next week and turning my front yard (worthless at the moment) into flower / food beds!
Those raised bed kits look great. I've been using hugelkultur to fill my raised beds. Oh! Those clamps to hold the netting on are a great idea! Thanks for sharing this with us :-)
Great job, Mark! I’ve watched you the past few years and always found your growing and gardening advice helpful even half a world away. Keep up the good job!
Awesome! Years ago, I lived in a small condo with an L shaped back yard. This method would have worked perfect! I need to find a company that sells those corigated beds here in the USA. Thanks Mark!
G’day Mark, you’ve inspired me to purchase a Birdies garden bed for my home in preparation for summer here in Adelaide. You have also inspired my channel creation, with a focus on growing Chilli peppers. I’ll be growing around 30+ different varieties to make a range of sauces and other recipes and Birdie’s will come in handy 😊🙌🏼
I loved this video (I really love them all) but I live in one of three Strata Units & I'm going to asked the elderly lady next door if I could put one or two of these along the back fence. She is lovely & always says yes. I was a green thumb before I became disabled but that hasn't stopped me, I am growing some container vegies atm but these beds would be much better. a raised bed here would be great. Keep up the great work. Thank you 😊
Great premise for a new series of shows. It’s very entertaining and a fresh change on an established theme. I’m into it today on a smaller scale constructing a small self watering garden bed that I plan to plant spinach.
Hello, Mark. Great video. The lady will be glad to grow her vegetables! Since I followed your instructions and now I have 6 raised beds I do not tire at all but it is very pleasant and beautiful. Congratulations Mark. 🇬🇷 👍 🍆🌶️🥕
Wow! Glad I came back to watch this first video in the series (started with the pallet wall one). I have been struggling with appropriate hoops and netting for seedling beds (raised or not) for a while now... bought a few packs of grow tunnels from Bunnings but the hoops are too small and weak and bend/break/disintegrate too quickly for my liking. And I hate the idea of having to buy more of them each year. Your pvc pipe/irrigation tubing solution is pure genius! Thank you, Mark! Love your work :)
Very informative. It also looks very expensive. It would be more of a hobby/entertainment to grow vegetables this way than any bit of food saver. At least that's what it seems like given the size.
This is fantastic Mark, thank you so much your videos are always so helpful. Now when my husband makes our garden bed he has a visual instruction manual.
Congrats on your first Small Space Series, Mark. Yay!! I am proud of you and Nina for having this opportunity to expand and remained humble to your channel. Loved that.
Mark, this is really a great idea putting the tree branches and logs on the bottom, those logs soak up the water in the bottom and withhold it to help keep the plants hydrated. I ask here in the States when I go to a big box store if they have blood & bone, well they look a me like I'm stupid or something, and I keep forgetting they only do the blood & bone in separate bags here ( old habits die hard, I guess?).
Excellent video. I am a veteran cinder block raised bed gardener.....but I always, always come away with new tips/tricks from your channel. Just can’t grow many of the plants you do here in suburban Chicagoland zone 5b.
Hi Robin! I’m in Chicago too (well Oak Park). I’d love to see how you do your cinder beds & what you grow in them! I’m a new gardener so I need all the help I can get!!! Thanks for sharing
Hey Mark I've finally gotten sweet potato that buded. It's taken four tries. So my question is do u bury the nodes totally covered even over the little leaves there's no roots just little leaves bout half inch. Or should I wait till bigger tubers ? It's so hot here in West tx 90-110 through summer usually 100.
In USA, those galvanised steel growing beds you asked where to get them in one of your videod- can be found in farm supply companies, they are mostly used as animal watering tanks. The big oval long ones some people use as an outdoor raised pond or even a hot tub, or rustic indoor bathtub.
Hi Mark, i love your channel and what you're doing, encouraging many people all over the world to grow and taste great fruit and veg, most supermarket food nowadays is crap, growing your own healthy and tasty food is the way forward, i have a small garden but every year i try to cram in more and more. I have watched most of your videos and i love every one of them, and i'm learning a lot in the process, keep up the good work my friend. Big Hi 5 from Scotland UK, Tony :-)
G'day Tony and thanks mate! Yes I agree that a lot of supermarket food is ordinary. Don't get me wrong, "fresh" supermarket fruit and veg are generally ok but what concerns me is the chemicals used in preserving and producing the food, also the lack of variety with a tendency to stock produce with a long shelf life or perfect looks rather than taste and nutrition. All the best and keep growing! :)
Just what I need to watch! YOU'RE a genie! I was struggling a little on planting in my tiny townhouse and now im talking your advice only cut to a miniaturized "dollhouse" style version
@@Selfsufficientme I know!! I have enough to share with 3 neighbors and my small family they wonder how much herbs and veges can easilly be grown for asian dishes came from a tiny townhouse garden. This year I might even tripple my yields from doing a miniaturized version of your garden vertically, hope my fence and security grills hold up too since ill be using them for trellises
Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden bed in the USA: shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount.
I live in a very hot climate. 44-47 degrees in the summer. Will this get too hot and burn?
So excited that these are available in the US now. Love your channel!!
I really like how long this bed is but I checked the USA website and the longest bed on there is around 5 feet. I think this one is around 8 feet. I wonder if they will start selling these long beds in the U.S. I love your videos. Thanks for this series.
Hey Mark, do you have any discount codes for the birdies raised garden beds in Australia? I’ve bought my first one a few days ago from Bunnings but I’d rather you get the commission than them for the next 5 more I buy
@@daveelliot7552 same!
Woo!!! Thanks again for building and filling this bed for me. I love it so much and use it nearly every day!! :-)
G'day Cerae! I'm glad you have found the bed useful and being a healthy eating conscientious food gardener as you are I'm sure you'll get many years of growing out of your raised vegetable garden. Cheers :)
Hi Cerae
That is so awesome looks fantastic.
Hello from Albury NSW
Cerae Mitchell Hi Cerae! I’m so jealous!!!! Ha! Anyhow, do you mind sharing the nitty gritty details of every single thing you planted? Share!!! It’d be awesome to see a picture of how the bed looks now.
Thanks!!!
I'm gonna make one for myself if i ever get a house!! :) :)..
I'd like to add a tip! My local nurseryman suggested that, when building beds like this, to water thoroughly at every layer. This makes it much easier to get the initial moisture throughout the bed. You could also add whatever organic fertilizers at different levels as well . . and/or worms, your kitchen compost, etc. You get the idea. Thanks for this video!!
Top tip! Thanks for sharing :)
Yes. I am a great believer in using kitchen scraps place them in ground raised beds and even in pots cover with soil and the plants burst
Who else is super excited about this series 🤗
I TOO.
Love it! The structure of this bed reminds me of a horse watering trough. I am in the USA, and in my area, we have terrible problems with burrowing rodents like groundhogs, moles, rabbits, etc. So my only suggestion is in the very bottom of the bed, before you add any organic matter, I would insert strong wire fencing which has very small holes. That way, animals cannot come up from the ground and steal the crops. Otherwise, I am picturing a few of these beds in my future!
Our new favourite show from Canada. We put in 2 raised brick grden beds with pipe drainage too. One is for vegetables and anlther berries. We got a large , tall garden bed made too.
Loved her pure excitement when it was finished.
Garden on everyone
The reaction of the lady is so wholesome, how lovely proyect
This is one of my favorite gardening videos. Thanks Mark, for taking us through it & giving us that "Yes, We Can!" Feeling. Encouragement is so important when one is either starting out or trying to expand. 😂🌻
Thank you from America for your videos. My husband and I are now using raised beds made from free pallets we get from a business around the corner. We use branches, yard waste and logs to half fill them. So far so good!!!!
Great video, thanks
I love how happy she was! I totally understand :)
Wow, just wow! So glad to see someone proactively sharing their passion. What a gift to that family. Way to go Mark!
Thank you! It turned out to be a really great project. Cheers :)
This is awesome. Not only by showing how its done in the suburbs, but more importantly helping a family to start up growing their own food!
Thank you 🙏 for showing how to build a garden bed. I’ll start go ahead with it.
This is giving me full better homes and gardens and I'm into it.
I'm container gardening in a rooftop right now, but we're going to be buying a house in a year or so and I'm so, so excited to fill the yard with garden beds!
Simple to put together, easy to maintain, and dare I say winner winner chicken dinner!
What a beautiful raised garden. Fantastic job.
Hi..... Self Sufficient me, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
It's look easy.Next year I will pinch your clever design.Thank you for sharing your video with us.
Absolutely love the netting set up! That’s ingenious
🫡🇬🇧✝️☝️🔥❤️💊🙏🏾👋🏽🛸😇thanks for all these videos mate, and for all the advice.
Hey mate, how are you? I just wanted to say how much your videos mean to me. I live with moderate depression, grew up in the long grass, so understand being a bit prepared, and with covid and shit I decided to grow some veggies. With the magic of you tube I discovered your channel, and love it! Since March I have built a kitchen garden that I think will produce a heap of food for us, and gives me a regular chillout session. Thanks for your work mate, and keep it up!
That netting brace is pure genius!!! Thank you for sharing that idea!
SUPER GREAT!
LOVE YOUR SHOW!
I found your video a few days ago and I am so excited that I might be able to do some gardening with my really bad back. Thanks for the video!!
Me too! Cant stand stoop or lean very long!!!
What a great idea for a project! This year I did 5 gal. buckets for my garden and enjoyed a good potato harvest and good green peppers. No luck with the squashes. and the cabbages were a total fail. But at least a start was made.
Failures are part of gardening but I'm like you and focus on the successes whilst learning all the time. Good on ya! Cheers :)
Do you think the failure was due to the road 5 gal buckets, meaning limited space above the soil ? Or do you think there was another reason?
I think it was poor soil prep. on my part plus the smaller containers for the squash.
@@tbuffi3790 Your squashes may have not been pollinated
Earl Rumble Hi Earl! I just got started this year too! I did ten 20-gallon grow pots & some things (cucumbers, tomatoes & peppers did well but my squash & lettuce did not!). I didn’t know how/when to harvest my lettuce so it went bitter!
Good luck to you & thanks for sharing :)
Building our first home, can't wait to have our own garden finally!!! THANK YOU!
Absolutely awesome, better than any tv program, love this channel
Super! I just use pots and things! Grow mainly lettuce and parsley! Cut off and regrow! Aussie Lady!
My favorite gardener!
I always watch homes and garden to get some tips. But info here is so much more thorough, useful and practical. 😊 thank you.
Great energy and good advice. I have just retired from teaching after 30 years and are ready to nurture myself and my environment. What better way than to start a vegetable garden, right? I would love to see an easier way for one person to set up a garden bed. In the video, I could see a whole crew putting this garden bed together, I only have two hands. Also, if you could slow down and explain the kind of materials you used to set up netting, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for inspiring me to be more self sufficient. We are cheering you on from Mission Viejo, California. Maria Lucia
Hello Maria,
This weekend I put together 2 of these beds on my own. It’s possible although it takes longer on your own.
I didn’t get the waist high (80cm) version because my garden is so small. I bought the 40cm beds.
They’re truly awesome.
I've been binging your videos and you've inspired the heck out of me. I'm ordering two Birdies raised beds next week and turning my front yard (worthless at the moment) into flower / food beds!
well done Mark, great video and so good to see she's enjoying it so much. more videos along this line would be great.
You're being throttled mate! Not getting notifications. Love your channel, but not being notified of new content. Love your stuff Mark
Those raised bed kits look great. I've been using hugelkultur to fill my raised beds. Oh! Those clamps to hold the netting on are a great idea! Thanks for sharing this with us :-)
Whidbey Island Washington here. Great idea.
Very well done Mark...
Great job, Mark! I’ve watched you the past few years and always found your growing and gardening advice helpful even half a world away. Keep up the good job!
Thank you Adam! :)
Building mine today gardening journey begins
I have to say you are a God send! I love your sense of humor and your knowledge base is vast. God bless you and your family! Keep up the good work!
This is useful. Please continue to do more episodes!
Thanks Palani - yes I will do! We have 4 more episodes in this series and depending on the demand I may do a part 2. All the best :)
I’m About to build my gardens just like yours, thanks for the educational videos
So glad you posted this video! I've been admiring those raised beds for quite some time. I think I'll have to add one or two to my yard.
Pretty awesome and i loved it. The owner really did great keeping the plants. 100% satisfied!
You are sooo cool my friend! Thank you for making this gardening FOOL proof and simple for me!!! I'm hooked on your channel!!
Thanks for the video Mark!
Well done Mark , another great video 👍
Your videos are much better quality now. Looks great.
Awesome! Years ago, I lived in a small condo with an L shaped back yard. This method would have worked perfect! I need to find a company that sells those corigated beds here in the USA. Thanks Mark!
G’day Mark, you’ve inspired me to purchase a Birdies garden bed for my home in preparation for summer here in Adelaide. You have also inspired my channel creation, with a focus on growing Chilli peppers. I’ll be growing around 30+ different varieties to make a range of sauces and other recipes and Birdie’s will come in handy 😊🙌🏼
I loved this video (I really love them all) but I live in one of three Strata Units & I'm going to asked the elderly lady next door if I could put one or two of these along the back fence. She is lovely & always says yes. I was a green thumb before I became disabled but that hasn't stopped me, I am growing some container vegies atm but these beds would be much better. a raised bed here would be great. Keep up the great work. Thank you 😊
Beautiful
I wish this was around when I first built my beds. I love the hoop house idea, so simple and cheap.
Great project 👍 good informational video 📹
Great premise for a new series of shows. It’s very entertaining and a fresh change on an established theme. I’m into it today on a smaller scale constructing a small self watering garden bed that I plan to plant spinach.
Best of luck Karl with you new self-watering bed! Cheers :)
I love your channel! I can’t wait to get my own gardens started
Gr8 info as always Mark...thank you for all ur hard work
Hello, Mark. Great video. The lady will be glad to grow her vegetables! Since I followed your instructions and now I have 6 raised beds I do not tire at all but it is very pleasant and beautiful. Congratulations Mark. 🇬🇷 👍 🍆🌶️🥕
Lamprine Datsika wow 6 beds!!! Great job!!! How many plants/seeds can you grow in 1 bed please? Thanks
Wow! Glad I came back to watch this first video in the series (started with the pallet wall one). I have been struggling with appropriate hoops and netting for seedling beds (raised or not) for a while now... bought a few packs of grow tunnels from Bunnings but the hoops are too small and weak and bend/break/disintegrate too quickly for my liking. And I hate the idea of having to buy more of them each year. Your pvc pipe/irrigation tubing solution is pure genius! Thank you, Mark! Love your work :)
I love your energy Mark! Can't stop watching your videos!
For an inner city garden it's huge!
Really thrilled about your new series, Mark! Thank you, so much!
Nice, takes me back to my child hood when burkes backyard was popular viewing
You’re an amazing fella
Love your videos, you explain everything very well, simple and easy to do, thanks alot and glad i found your channel
Can't wait to see the rest of this series. Cerae, you have an awesome set up there. Enjoy!
Very informative. It also looks very expensive. It would be more of a hobby/entertainment to grow vegetables this way than any bit of food saver. At least that's what it seems like given the size.
Love it as I am about to buy an acre and begin to plant food for the first time....great information
This is fantastic Mark, thank you so much your videos are always so helpful. Now when my husband makes our garden bed he has a visual instruction manual.
I wish I had grass in the backyard instead of pavers so I could do this too 😢. Great video, Mark. Thank you.
Love the raised beds ... The closer to waist level the better ... Can't wait for the tunnel project to show fruit ...b
So much better for my buggered back and shoulders James... Got a few seeds sprouting already in the gourd tunnel - very exciting! :)
That looks awesome!
This is winter?! Amazing, you can grow all year round with winters like these.
looks amazing and given me some great ideas for my raised beds
Very practical and easy to follow! Great job Mark!
Thanks Alistair! :)
This dude is a master!
Excellent work Mark! Thanks!
Another Brilliant video, thanks!
👍😊❤️😎🌺🌴🦩🐠🐬👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻 WILL HAVE SOME ASAP! Thank you!!
Nice fill with the big logs as a slow release carbon source
Love the idea of animal proofing thank you
She's SO excited. Have you gone back to see how they're doing with it? It's been over a year...
Great idea and can't wait for the next installment.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Congrats on your first Small Space Series, Mark. Yay!! I am proud of you and Nina for having this opportunity to expand and remained humble to your channel. Loved that.
Hugelkultur boyz represent!
Mark, this is really a great idea putting the tree branches and logs on the bottom, those logs soak up the water in the bottom and withhold it to help keep the plants hydrated.
I ask here in the States when I go to a big box store if they have blood & bone, well they look a me like I'm stupid or something, and I keep forgetting they only do the blood & bone in separate bags here ( old habits die hard, I guess?).
Excellent video. I am a veteran cinder block raised bed gardener.....but I always, always come away with new tips/tricks from your channel. Just can’t grow many of the plants you do here in suburban Chicagoland zone 5b.
Hey Robin! I bet your cinder block beds work a treat so all the best with your raised bed food gardening! Cheers :)
Hi Robin! I’m in Chicago too (well Oak Park). I’d love to see how you do your cinder beds & what you grow in them! I’m a new gardener so I need all the help I can get!!! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the great video. I'm practising your tips on hugelkultur on my raised garden bed and it's a great idea 🙏🏼👍👌
Hugelkultur - great way to put those million or so fallen palm branches to use (if you have palm trees, you know what I'm talking about!).
How true is that... those dreaded palm fronds! Cheers :)
Hey Mark I've finally gotten sweet potato that buded. It's taken four tries. So my question is do u bury the nodes totally covered even over the little leaves there's no roots just little leaves bout half inch. Or should I wait till bigger tubers ? It's so hot here in West tx 90-110 through summer usually 100.
In USA, those galvanised steel growing beds you asked where to get them in one of your videod- can be found in farm supply companies, they are mostly used as animal watering tanks. The big oval long ones some people use as an outdoor raised pond or even a hot tub, or rustic indoor bathtub.
Nice work Mark.
Hello love this,series
Hi Mark, i love your channel and what you're doing, encouraging many people all over the world to grow and taste great fruit and veg, most supermarket food nowadays is crap, growing your own healthy and tasty food is the way forward, i have a small garden but every year i try to cram in more and more.
I have watched most of your videos and i love every one of them, and i'm learning a lot in the process, keep up the good work my friend.
Big Hi 5 from Scotland UK,
Tony :-)
G'day Tony and thanks mate! Yes I agree that a lot of supermarket food is ordinary. Don't get me wrong, "fresh" supermarket fruit and veg are generally ok but what concerns me is the chemicals used in preserving and producing the food, also the lack of variety with a tendency to stock produce with a long shelf life or perfect looks rather than taste and nutrition. All the best and keep growing! :)
Just what I need to watch! YOU'RE a genie! I was struggling a little on planting in my tiny townhouse and now im talking your advice only cut to a miniaturized "dollhouse" style version
It's surprising how much produce you can grow in a small space so all the best with your food garden! :)
@@Selfsufficientme I know!! I have enough to share with 3 neighbors and my small family they wonder how much herbs and veges can easilly be grown for asian dishes came from a tiny townhouse garden. This year I might even tripple my yields from doing a miniaturized version of your garden vertically, hope my fence and security grills hold up too since ill be using them for trellises
I'm going to do this thanks Mark.
mark i have redone my hole garden thank to you mate got so much in now, you are such an inspiration mate big love from england bro