The BEST Soil Combination for RAISED GARDEN BEDS!
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I'm mainly here to give props for the channel name. But it was good to see someone doing raised beds in a dry climate as well!
I live in North West Tucson.Finally getting around to getting a garden going. I haven’t had a garden since the 70’s. Nice tutorial thank you!
Very good and wise people on Earth. They are blessings. I have turned my home into farm as well. It’s hard work but worth every second. I absolutely love it. Let’s grow our own food people!✌🏻❤️
That extreme gardening soil fungus is awesome. I grew a zucchini plant the size of a Volkswagen beetle!
Thanks for your advice my wife and my children are going to make me some raised beds for Fathers Day (I’m from England) and this is really helpful.
I watched a video on growing tomatoes and the guy said to use pond or lake water to water your plants because tap water isn’t good for plants (well water is ok). I figured that was bunk but I tried it and my tomatoes grew so nicely - it definitely works. People probably think I’m crazy filling up buckets from the pond but I don’t care
rain water is good too
Great video! Lived all the tips n tricks. My raised bed was completed now I can start getting all my soils.. thank you
This was very interesting, and I can't believe I've only just found your channel!
Great information! Thanks for sharing.
thank you for the advice. I knew it was more than just putting potting soil in a container
The jets flying over are frustrating when shooting video aren't they? I deal with that all the time when doing my farm videos. You did a great job showing how someone can get decent soil their first year of gardening. The beautiful thing is that after a few seasons this will just keep getting better as the soil life develops. Nice work!
Daddykirbs Farm - A Homesteading Story I find the jets soothing
Love this video keep up the good work
Love it wish I’d got a garden to do this.
AWESOME VIDEO! Is there something that can be substituted in the place of the fish fertilizer?
Love your video!!!very good!
Probably the best video I have seen on garden bed
Great video, thanks for sharing, what about compost?
Thank you, great video
Great video , thanks for posting this . Can I ask, how much do you mix up the potting soil with the coconut coir, rock dust and root enhancer ? Do you just leave them layered ? Or do you give them a good mix together ?
Love the way you've done your layering method for the raised Garden beds. We have soil in most of our yard that was somewhat contaminated from Gold Mining in the area and the place is mostly fill from the mills here. (They haven't operated here for 30 years) Because of the possible contamination and or traces of cyanide and or arsenic and the rocky fill used to build up our area I do my beds a little differently. I have a pipe under my beds with a chance to fill it full of water allowing the water to soak into the ground UNDER the plants so they can take up what they need. We only water our beds once a week between April and September and twice a week (top up usually) between October and March. This saves water and loses NOTHING to evaporation unless it goes through the plant first (Transpiration). I AM in Australia so the seasons are upside down for you but your get the drift.
All my raised garden beds have a heavy plastic liner with an agricultural pipe (usually used to drain areas) under weed mat and a layer of course sand about one inch over the top height of the ag. pipe. At this level I put an overflow pipe using 3/4 inch pipe through the side of the box. This pipe has a piece of shade cloth wrapped on the inside end of it to prevent the sand washing out. I then place another layer of weed mat on the sand and make a 300 mm (12 inch) layer of potting mix coir mix. Above that a layer of worm castings, fine granite dust, manure (cow, horse, goat, sheep or - if I can get it - llama, camel and elephant from the circus), more potting mix and then a deep layer of straw/hay or sugar cane mulch. This brings my beds to a little over the height of the walls but, after a watering (good soaking) it settles to about an inch below the rim.
I let this sit for about two months to allow any stray weeds or seeds that may have come in the potting mix to germinate. If there is a little, I pick it out and plant in my chosen vegetable starts...if there is a lot of weed issue I let the chickens onto the bed for three weeks...that fixes it EVERY time.
That's awesome!
My bed is only 8" high. Should I have thinner layers or fewer layers?
Hello! What would you do to the dirt for your next crop/season?
pretty good mix 👍. rotten woodchips would be great to add as well
When you put these successive additions of coconut coir and the 3 nutrients, do you mix these 4 or do you add them as 4 layers separate every time?
Careful termites also love cardboard. It’s actually their standard feed in captivity
Do u need to use all the added fertilizer if I have fresh compost from the local farm that has eArthworms?
Great info. Thanks!! "Mel's Mix", from the book _Square Foot Gardening_ is the mix I like the best... with what you said-- the worm castings, mycorrhizal fungi, Azomite, fish fertilizer... and I get great results, too!... In my arid area, the vermiculite is a very important component for keeping the moisture in.
Great video 👍 your soil is the same as Nevada thanks for the tips
hi I was wondering if its possible to mix regular dirt with soil
Do u put the rock dust in the soil or around the plants I have herd both ways
Weed 'em and Reap. Haha, that's funny!
Could I use leaf compost, coco coir, worm castings, and rock dust?
hi is it o.k my back yard r mainly sandy so mixed with black soil..will it be suitable for growing green vegets? t.q
Do we mix it all or separate layers of this stuff?
Can you use this recipe in core gardening?
Were those two 2 x 12 boards stacked on top of each other? Also, is using the coconut coir a bad idea or just not as necessary in a very humid climate (south Louisiana)?
Hiii! I live in Tolleson by Goodyear Arizona! I have an inground garden however! The caliche (clay) dirt kills my roots.... Only the strong survive. And i only waste seeds. Did you build your own garden beds?
I live in Arizona so this was very helpful
Same. I’m probably just gonna do compost, worm castings, composted steer manure and put that into the soil (maybe coir? Idk)
This was great, thanks, I've been looking for "vegetable garden soil mix" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Paylezobath Celebrated Process - (do a google search )?
It is a smashing one of a kind product for learning organic gardening secrets to boost your produce minus the hard work. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my mate got amazing success with it.
wow, this is something!!!
Very well explained!...Very helpful for a beginner like me! Thank you!
Love what looks like a Pea trellis in the video! Where did you get that?? ❤ Thanks!
My formula is inch each of peatmoss+ship manure+ local soil+crushed leaf. Water this with grinded banana+ egg+green leaf juice
Hi,
Is it the whole banana that you grind with the egg and green leaves or the peels..?Can one use plantain instead of banana?Also what part of the egg,I suppose egg shell?
I'll appreciate your response..
How do you keep your wood from warping?
Does the coconut coir get molded? If so is it preventable or inevitable?
What did you grow in those beds with the trellis ??
What kind of wood are you using?
can you just mix all the soils together or it has to be laired
I'm new to all this gardening thing. May I ask you what is the diff between potting mix and potting soil? Thanks in advance.
Oh same thing
Wow so cute ,great video too very informative
Where could I get coconut coir? Thank you
Love your channel name...
hi , if i want to use natural composants, i main no manifacturing items in bags , somthing really natural how will be the proportions ( home made compost , manure, ..) with soil base (clay and sand) in hot and dry climate .
Hi, i live in Virginia. I am a beginner and planning on growing flowers. Would this process work with just flowers?
That would work great!
What would you use if you're allergic to fish and shellfish?
not sure if you know much about nitrogen, but I'd be adding some of that too! it's usually the one of the only growth limiting factors for plants. not too much of course because then it will be toxic. It washes away from the soil, unlike things like potassium or phosphorous. It also does a lot of things, used for pretty much any growth. can't always trust what the packages say for those other things you added because probably they aren't being sold or verified by botanists. really great job aerating the soil, it's so important! Love what you're doing, just thought I'd let you know about nitrogen if you didn't already
thanks!
how often would you add more minerals to the soil to rejuvenate it for the next crop? every year?
Do you use any kind of manure or organic fertilizer like fish, blood bone?
I live in UK and we have plenty of rain, but where i live is very heavy clay soil, would adding some sand help it?
Here you go: www.weedemandreap.com/get-superpowered-garden-soil/
Good
do you mix all the ingrediants together or you just layer it? does it matter what order you put it in? i notice you did not use compost. if i was to use compost, where would incorporate it?
paulette brown mix together
I love in Georgia we have clay but are also humid, what’s the best soil to use?
Anyone?
I just found your channel. We're in Tucson just getting a ecosystem started. I'm super excited to find someone in our area. I'm curious, where do you purchase your coconut core? I have spent a pretty penny so far and need to find a better priced source. Thanks!
Yeah, it's pretty expensive!
You can grow any weed or plant with that dirt....good job sally
vermicompost, compost and coconut coir + existing soil will do.Oh well whatever works in your garden.
I live in northwestern Pennsylvania where there's almost always lots of moisture, but our soil is mostly clay for some reason. o_o
I normally amend with (among other things) a Fish (and bat) guano diluted solution, instead of the emulsion. As good, you think? Great video!
Anvanho
Bat GUANO? My Pawpaw always used it and called it Sodie...And I remember him growing some AMAZING Produce.
None of these things are available in my country 😳 I can get sitting soil, but that’s $10 for a bag the size of a loaf of bread .. so I only use that for starting the seeds. So I have no idea what to put in my raised beds..
Can you get peat moss or use your native soil then?
Hey. I noticed it says one inch of worm castings - that seems like a heck of a lot of worm castings. LOL. Was there a typo by chance?
May i make 1 suggestion? Spend the money and buy a watering can for adding the Fish Emulsion. Otherwise you will be wasting it.
Wow
Nice video, lots of info, thanks. Can I use peat moss instead of coconut coir? Coconut coir may give inconsistent result, depends on its source.
Totally. Peat moss works just fine:)
Coconut coir is a more sustainable option. We are overharvesting the sphagnum sources.
Also, I've used the Mykos. It's completely unnecessary. Mycorrhizae are naturally occurring pretty much everywhere, and there is no guarantee the store-bought spores have survived the rigors of transit. So, a waste of money.
Peat moss will acidify the soil. Coconut coir is neutral.
If you use peat moss, just be sure to add epsom salt to the mixture which stabilizes the acidity in it. That's what I do.
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Rotten fish liquid. Yummy yummy. Lol. Oh, you're so cute.
what kind of wood are you using to make the garden boxes?
I think it's Doug Fir.
James
How do I watch your TH-cam’s that are current Which is June 30th?
Sorry, I would mix
Is there any single product I can just buy and dump in? I'm a beginner and I don't want to buy 10 different things just to make dirt for planting.
You could buy a complete soil and use only that without any dirt. Just ask someone at your local nursery for one.
Thank you for the quick response, I pick some up in the morning.
no compost?
Hi DaNelleI love your video! I am a first time garden bed grower and I followed your recommendations exactly. I'm wondering if I need to fertilize my garden during the season? If so what type of fertilizer would you recommend? I'm planting tomatoes, green peppers, radishes, carrots onions, cucumbers and pea pods.thank you 😊
We normally do it between seasons.
Here's where I tell about it: www.weedemandreap.com/get-superpowered-garden-soil/
Espoma or Jobes both have organic blends of fertilizer that work very well to side dress your plants during the growing season. Fish fertilizer and Kelp can also be poured on your garden for a boost of nutrients, 1-TBS per gallon works well for me. Hope this helps.
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I hate to be a naysayer to a naysayer but...There's a thousand mixes and ways to set a garden bed...This video is about one way to go. Anyone that gardens knows how to amend their own garden...As for me, without video's like this,,gardening would of been more a struggle than a success. Learning is a lot easier than laboring.
good video learn a lot
Raised beds make it so you DON'T have to amend your soil. Amending desert soil takes a lot of time, money and/or effort. I use machinery to do a majority of the work for me. It was literally impossible to do it by hand in some places of my yard, though.
Ok then no reason to come to this vid if you don't need the help
What is your recommended mix for a raised garden bed ? Also do you put a layer of mulch on top ?
I have no doubt the coconut coir is awesome but it seems so expensive. Is there a cheaper option?
AmandaKeith peat moss
Peat moss
Just look around. I found 6 cubic feet for $35 whereas peat moss cost me $30. Coco coir is a much more environmentally friendly product.
i have all natural garden soil for flowers & vegetables
is coconut coir better than pete moss?
Bobber the Clown its more environmentally friendly
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Can you do a video about your irritating
How often do you amend your box
Before every season
@@Weedemandreap does your box smell good
Does one of those Miracle-Gro soil packages retain water well?
damn sure do put a lot of stuff
How about adding a 2-4" layer of mulch to the top to keep in moisture ? Thanks ~!
what do you grow in the narrow beds with the wire behind it
I grow things like snap peas, green beans, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers -- really anything that can be grown on a trellis:)
Thank you
Buy soil from your local compost / rock yard in cubic yards and you will spend at least a third less compared to packaged soils.
Fullpattern It actually costs around $30 per cubic yard where I live, but I'm in a desert area. Still at least a forth of what you would pay for packaged soils.
Jim Raynor fighting the dominion on the frontier
There is lots of water here in northwest pa... Lots of clay...
Right
Strange that you never mentioned what you put in your raised beds also depends on the depth of the beds and what you are going to grow in them.
I don’t do raised beds anymore - I found out in ground planting works better in AZ
@@Weedemandreap Yes, I agree with you on that score, raised beds have become a bit of a fad and are often quite unnecessary.
This is very expensive mix when compost from local recycle ) pay $10 for 8 x 4 trailer full, holds water, have nutrients add 1/4 sand to compost and go
why are your beds so narrow?
Causes Dookey
why don't they just bag all the ingredeants together in one bag
They do but they skimp on all the good stuff or charge obscene prices for a tiny bag. This kind of stuff is better for larger gardening.
The top "soil" in the bed ends up just being coconut coir with amendments. I'm not sure then why you'd bother with the garden soil if you're not going to mix it with the coconut coir and amendments.
I think this is a troll video tbh
worms in the dessert
I hate to be a naysayer but if you feel you need the native soil why not just make your beds in that soil? A good deep mulch will protect your moisture and add organic matter to the soil. Also I'm in a more humid area and we have heavy clay loam. You can go to your local extension office and get better information that this video.
The soil will eventually become compacted and will shrink down, so you'd have to add more, but worse, since the dirt would become so packed and lack aeration, any plants would pretty much suffocate or at least have a very difficult time growing. Aeration (the coconut coir) is very important! also, because the soil is probably devoid of some nutrients, it's good to put in things that can supplement.
After 20+ years of growing in beds with 'native' soil I have to
respectfully disagree. If you are growing plants in mulched beds and
adding organic matter on top regularly the soil should come alive with
worms and fungi and other creatures and build up not compact down. And
plants will send roots down in the bed and with organic matter the worms
will aerate your soil so it will not compact.
I agree with you. I've been gardening for 40+ years and have rarely used fertilizer, rock dust, etc. Mulch and organic matter is all you need. Let the soil grow and it will produce. The problems we face with modern agriculture are the direct result of the industrial revolution. They think adding tons of chemicals to the earth will help it. In fact, just the opposite. That's why people are starving to death and dying from disease. Not from lack of food, but rather, lack of nutrition. It's been depleted from the soil. I say, she should fill those beds with dirt, add organic mulch and walk away. JMHO :-)
I have very sandy native soil. I want to start some raised beds. I do not want to use all the chemicals. I'm thinking sand compost and mulch. Do you guys think that would work?
Be sure to use organic compost and organic mulch. Apply a liquid organic fertiliser once a week, diluted in plenty of water. The soil mix will feed the vegetables for around three months. You can then top up the bed with more compost and mulch (scattered around the growing vegetables) until harvest time. Another hint is to mulch around the vegetables with organic pea straw or similar, to keep rain off the soil. This is because rainwater is not filtered and pollution in the rain will damage your soil. Also water if possible with filtered water by connecting an in-line water filter to the garden hose. This is because tap water running through garden hose can be quite dirty. After harvesting your vegetables, wash them well before eating/cooking as they may be covered in soil bacteria, metals (from dirty rain or hose water). You can buy special vegetable washing detergent (you only need a few drops at a time) if you search online. You get used to doing this after a while and it doesn't seem like so much work! Good luck!
Put dirt in it
the wood is hugelkultur lol
Each of my beds hold 4 yards so that’s 2 yards of coir according to your website. That would cost a fortune. The bed your showing is tiny.
Hey I think you could fill your beds with the lasagna method simply fill half or 2/3rds of your bed with organic matter whether it is leaves or grass clippings and the top level is your soil the soil level will drop a little bit but your beds will have rich soil and won't be as expensive