Been watching your videos since last year during covid down time. Been keeping the edges around flower beds just like you mentioned and overheard neighbors talking about clean they look and his wife complaining to him to make theirs look like mine. 🤣 Also my grass hasn't look this good ever. Thanks for all the videos, keep 'em coming.
Best video tutorial of all time! Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I've been so disheartened by my gardens......I work so hard on my yard and it never looks good. I drive by other people's yards and have such edge envy. Now I know what to do. Thank you so much! Wish me luck!!!
Just found you. This was a very helpful video because I just bought my 1st house and I plan on doing my own landscaping and your videos are really great! You now have a new subscriber!
I would’ve paid so much to have seen this before I tore up my entire yard and had chaotic results. 😂😂😂😂 this looks so much better than what I am at right now. Great job!!
Great Video! Looks great! If making larger bed and don’t want to scrape off the top sod in the ‘middle of the bed’. You can lay down flattened cardboard boxes covering the sod. The sod will die off and not penetrate. The mulch on top will conceal. The cardboard dissipates in a few years. Fast with high quality results.
AT&T tech here, props on calling 811! Just to add: please don't plant sharp/thorny plants in front of these boxes. Pampas, roses, cactus, etc. suck to work around, please plan to maintain/train plants to allow access for many years as they grow. The network interface is one of our primary testing points and separates the service provider's responsibility from the customer's (aka who gets the repair bill).
Great video... And from one videographer to another, I know in post when you heard that lav interference while laying down, you probably said... "c'mon man, I'm gonna post it anyway, lol"
I would add a few things to this excellent job. 1) Always make the bed as big as you can -- it will look so much better. Narrow beds next to a big house don't make the best impact. 2) Line the bottom of the bed with a few layers of newspaper and water it to keep it in place. It will block weeds as it breaks down over time and won't stick out like landscaping fabric. 3) Build the bed way up before planting -- like 8". That soil will settle and be too low and water might sit there and you don't want the plants sitting in water. Tamp it down, then put your plants in. 4) Then put the mulch in. Would love to have a nice strong guy like you to make new beds for me, that's for sure. You are on the right track and have a beautiful yard 🙂
@linguaphile42 I'm following your recipe with the newspaper and all. What do you mean by build the bed way up about 8 inches. Am I adding more soil? Or am I creating a larger trench line? I'm sorry for the confusion, I just want to get this right on the first go. Thanks in advance!
@@AHasNYC Build up the soil that high because it will break down, first when it rains, and then over time. You want it to be high enough so that plants won't sit in water and so that you won't have to add more for a while. Using only compost is not only more expensive, but compost really breaks down fast, so you want topsoil to give you longer lasting height, and then mix compost (like a mushroom compost, or cow manure) with soil to put around any plants that you add. This vlogger gets a wonderful trench line and it is gorgeous, so you can try for that, but the newspaper and then just weeding at the edge are what keep the bed clean for me. When I started gardening years ago, I would dig out 6" of clay in my yard and then fill it in to make a bed, and those beds really lasted over time, but the no-dig/build up method is sooooo much easier. Anyway, good luck to you!
Wow great work I didn’t know to put a slight grade on the base to make it look better. It probably also keeps water away from the house too. Looks 100 times better!
Thank you for your video. I noticed you didn’t use landscaping fabric, is there a reason for that. I was always told I need to lay fabric to stop the weeds from coming through.
The reason is because it was just plain grass with no Weeds before he started. Weed fab helps on overgrown weed beds etc because it prevents Weeds from germinating under the mulch but he didnt have any weed seeds under his mulch because it was clean grass before hand, however he has shallow root grass, for grasses with deep nodules like St Augustine you still need weed fab or cardboard to keep the grass from coming back up. The mulch then (3" or deeper) will keep any new weed seeds from germinating from the top. Also the diff between weed fab and cardboard is fab doesn't break down whereas cardboard will allowing more nutrient transfer and earthworms that the fab would otherwise block, but if your simply doing a flower bed or landscaping this isn't a big deal it matters more for food gardens and farms where they cycle the beds continually.
I wish it was as easy for me. 😂 im redoing a flower bed in the front of my house that hasn't been touched in over 20 yrs. So EVERYTHING is rooted together.😢. Lots of back breaking work. But it'll be worth it in the end. Great job btw. ❤
Looks great! But just some constructive criticism, you should soften that angle going against the house towards your backyard. Would be much easier to mow that way.
@thelawnwhisper Do you have to water the flowers im just a little confused with them being in the mulch...i will be doing my own landscaping and im wanting some beautiful flowers like this or the kind that are outside of business that look the same year-round...
@@TheLawnWhisperer ... I hear ya' about having to trim around those cables!... I have a pair of manual (old-time) trimmers that I use for that kind of stuff! It IS a drag, especially when you're tired and worn out (and sweating like a big dawg!) 🙃👩🌾😰 =^..^=
Love how my new bed looks, followed the same process you showed here, but I have grass coming up through the mulch. Even after having used Preen. Thoughts? Not thick enough mulch? What to do?
Its eight thirty am. Here in lovely Gardner mass...uhhmmm.. im getting ready to get some serious mulch action started here in a little bit...i ve been out of the mulch game for a few ...but im a beast with that s.... So is there any true mulch artisan will tell you sometimes you just got to jump back into it and that's what I'm going to do I do like the video I like the edging quite a bit but as a middle-aged New England man embarking on yet again another mulch journey I got to tell you I'm a little bit mulch pissed right now.... No I'm just kidding thanks for being a good sport man.. but in all seriousness I'm getting some serious New England style mulch action done today you heard... again im joking around...like the video
Great tutorial! Any suggestions on best time of year to start a project like this? Fall, spring? Also, do you find any problems with termites or bugs with mulch that close to the house?
What do you do when the ground crumbles where the grass won’t grow like around an old oak tree. Trying to get that check mark and it turned into a ditch in some areas. Would love i sights on that. It only happened where the grass hasn’t grown yet.
Nice work improving the plant parts of your yard. Now the bed and grass look even better. I’m surprised you didn’t use a pre emergent on the bare dirt or some fertilizer like plant tone in the hole. Don’t you like putting things in the hole when you fill it? I do, I do. 🤣
Do you have to water the flowers im just a little confused with them being in the mulch...i will be doing my own landscaping and im wanting some beautiful flowers like this or the kind that are outside of business that look the same year-round...
Great upgrade, however it will make a bigger impact if the bed extends to where the siding on the house goes downhill. Just my 2 cents. Looks good either way.
Love the great information I could not figure out how to use my edger to make that clean edge! Lol Where do you dump your debris, specifically the dirt? I can dump my trimmings but no place I can find accepts soil. Any advice? Thanks in Advance.
Looks great Justin, can’t go wrong with a natural/live edge! Also great job editing the video. Saw your story about the audio not working after you filmed, that had to be frustrating
Great video. Was just going to redo my front flower beds as the old steel edging is rusted and everything looks terrible. I bought new black steel edging but now I'm thinking I may just do this. Are there any negatives to this type of live edge? I mean I get how the grass controls itself from growing into the bed because the roots die before it can spread but what about water erosion? How does this edge not just deteriorate over time into a slump of mud? Could I not do this and then install my steel edging inside of the live edge or would that defeat the purpose? Again, great video. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, new to the channel and love your videos. I'm sure you have covered this at some point but why don't you use a weed barrier? Isn't the weed and grass growth a pain to maintain?
Honestly when I originally put my front mulch bed in I used weed barrier and lots of weeds still grew through. I didn’t find it worth the time and effort and money to do. But that’s just my situation some people may have better success with it
Thumbs up for "there's some 'hose' in this house" I literally LML 'd
I DID TOO😂😂😂😂😂❤
Thanks for the video. I was trying to help my mother with her beds. I showed her this video. She laughed at your 4 inches.
This is exactly the video i was looking for! I'm planning a garden in my backyard and now i know exactly what to do.
The "hose" and "4 inches" comments really got me...lmao!
I love the hose in this house!!!😂😂😂😂
Been watching your videos since last year during covid down time. Been keeping the edges around flower beds just like you mentioned and overheard neighbors talking about clean they look and his wife complaining to him to make theirs look like mine. 🤣 Also my grass hasn't look this good ever. Thanks for all the videos, keep 'em coming.
Love that! Good work with the neighbors wife!!!
I love when my little girl helps in the lawn. Way fun 🤩
Makes it way more enjoyable!
Love the lawn tips and your sense of humour!
This video is exactly the tutorial I need! Thank you!
Best video tutorial of all time! Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I've been so disheartened by my gardens......I work so hard on my yard and it never looks good. I drive by other people's yards and have such edge envy. Now I know what to do. Thank you so much! Wish me luck!!!
Looks slick, i have so many edges to set coming up soon I'm crying thinking about it.
I love a nice flower bed.
Just found you. This was a very helpful video because I just bought my 1st house and I plan on doing my own landscaping and your videos are really great! You now have a new subscriber!
My man! Just what I needed for my mulching job tomorrow.
Cute kiddo! This should be a bed of flowers she helps maintain 🌺. 👍 Dad
Love your crispy catchphrase brother. Time for me to create a mulch bed. Thank you.
It just rained … doing this right now! Thanks
That edge is 💯!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE This Video! You are awesome. I'm in Ohio and weather is giving me the itch! Gonna get started! Thank You Thank You Thank You!
Looking good, my friend! Love the begonias in the front.
This dude is funny! Throwing stuff is exactly what I be doing. Lol.
Looks awesome brother !! Tight, clean edges and black mulch.....Mmmmmmm, that does sound good.
Love it Scott! So nice!
Thanks for this video, i really appreciate the fact that you show from start to finish how to do this project.
You are too funny! Thanks for this amazing idea! ❤
Your daughter did a great job! Kudos!
4:44 its also good for grading, slope rain away from your house to prevent leaks in basement
I would’ve paid so much to have seen this before I tore up my entire yard and had chaotic results. 😂😂😂😂 this looks so much better than what I am at right now. Great job!!
Great Video! Looks great!
If making larger bed and don’t want to scrape off the top sod in the ‘middle of the bed’. You can lay down flattened cardboard boxes covering the sod. The sod will die off and not penetrate. The mulch on top will conceal. The cardboard dissipates in a few years. Fast with high quality results.
Love the natural edge! Looks good LW!
If ya make a shirt that says …”clean and crispy.” I’ll buy it.
Excellent work man.
Best video yet for creating a new garden bed! Cheers
AT&T tech here, props on calling 811! Just to add: please don't plant sharp/thorny plants in front of these boxes. Pampas, roses, cactus, etc. suck to work around, please plan to maintain/train plants to allow access for many years as they grow. The network interface is one of our primary testing points and separates the service provider's responsibility from the customer's (aka who gets the repair bill).
👍 good tips!!!
Spectrum tech here. I too approve this message good sir. lol
Fantastic video dude! The thumb nail is what caught my attention too!
WAP: Water Awesome Plants. Blurt out laughed at the hose 🙌
Damn. Pretty good. 👍🏿
Just found your channel. Just started yard work. And you got me 😆 there's some hose in this house bahaha
One area left around my house I have yet to turn in to a mulch bed. This may have been the motivation I needed. Another great video.
Great video... And from one videographer to another, I know in post when you heard that lav interference while laying down, you probably said... "c'mon man, I'm gonna post it anyway, lol"
Haha yup!
I would add a few things to this excellent job. 1) Always make the bed as big as you can -- it will look so much better. Narrow beds next to a big house don't make the best impact. 2) Line the bottom of the bed with a few layers of newspaper and water it to keep it in place. It will block weeds as it breaks down over time and won't stick out like landscaping fabric. 3) Build the bed way up before planting -- like 8". That soil will settle and be too low and water might sit there and you don't want the plants sitting in water. Tamp it down, then put your plants in. 4) Then put the mulch in. Would love to have a nice strong guy like you to make new beds for me, that's for sure. You are on the right track and have a beautiful yard 🙂
@linguaphile42 I'm following your recipe with the newspaper and all. What do you mean by build the bed way up about 8 inches. Am I adding more soil? Or am I creating a larger trench line? I'm sorry for the confusion, I just want to get this right on the first go. Thanks in advance!
@@AHasNYC Build up the soil that high because it will break down, first when it rains, and then over time. You want it to be high enough so that plants won't sit in water and so that you won't have to add more for a while. Using only compost is not only more expensive, but compost really breaks down fast, so you want topsoil to give you longer lasting height, and then mix compost (like a mushroom compost, or cow manure) with soil to put around any plants that you add. This vlogger gets a wonderful trench line and it is gorgeous, so you can try for that, but the newspaper and then just weeding at the edge are what keep the bed clean for me. When I started gardening years ago, I would dig out 6" of clay in my yard and then fill it in to make a bed, and those beds really lasted over time, but the no-dig/build up method is sooooo much easier. Anyway, good luck to you!
@@linguaphile42 thank you so much for this, I understand now. I will do as you recommend. Thank you!
Wow great work I didn’t know to put a slight grade on the base to make it look better. It probably also keeps water away from the house too. Looks 100 times better!
Looks awesome bro.... gotta love the neighbors
Thanks for demonstrating this. I took note of making it sloped-higher in the back! And I see you did bring the mulch completely up to the 4inch wall.
Go to 6:10 I didn’t bring the mulch all the way up. There’s probably 2” or so exposed at least
Thanks just starting out in the lawn care business
"4 inches is a lot, at least that's what I've been told". LMAO!!!!!
Ahh. Nice choice on the begonias! I have them at my house. They will grow like crazy. Beautiful in bloom!
Love the little naughty jokes here and there!
Thank you for your video. I noticed you didn’t use landscaping fabric, is there a reason for that. I was always told I need to lay fabric to stop the weeds from coming through.
The reason is because it was just plain grass with no Weeds before he started. Weed fab helps on overgrown weed beds etc because it prevents Weeds from germinating under the mulch but he didnt have any weed seeds under his mulch because it was clean grass before hand, however he has shallow root grass, for grasses with deep nodules like St Augustine you still need weed fab or cardboard to keep the grass from coming back up. The mulch then (3" or deeper) will keep any new weed seeds from germinating from the top. Also the diff between weed fab and cardboard is fab doesn't break down whereas cardboard will allowing more nutrient transfer and earthworms that the fab would otherwise block, but if your simply doing a flower bed or landscaping this isn't a big deal it matters more for food gardens and farms where they cycle the beds continually.
Another great informative video. Thanks, Grass Daddy.
Thanks for watching Scott!
I wish it was as easy for me. 😂 im redoing a flower bed in the front of my house that hasn't been touched in over 20 yrs. So EVERYTHING is rooted together.😢. Lots of back breaking work. But it'll be worth it in the end. Great job btw. ❤
Looks amazing Justin! Good job
Thanks Andy!
Looks great! But just some constructive criticism, you should soften that angle going against the house towards your backyard. Would be much easier to mow that way.
Thank you. I haven't ever done this before but I'm about to on my channel, it's a bit bigger space than this, but I think I can do it....
So all I have to do to tap the lens ??? . Came out nice. good job.
Btw these videos are so helpful and clear! Thank you!
Wait so a deep V, and 4" is enough? I've been lied to.
It’s all a conspiracy
Haha. I was really hoping to find this comment. ;) 5:23
This comment is the best 😂
@thelawnwhisper Do you have to water the flowers im just a little confused with them being in the mulch...i will be doing my own landscaping and im wanting some beautiful flowers like this or the kind that are outside of business that look the same year-round...
Very clean sir, very clean
Great idea for the area around the utility connections. I may have to try that.
Oh yeah!
@@TheLawnWhisperer ... I hear ya' about having to trim around those cables!... I have a pair of manual (old-time) trimmers that I use for that kind of stuff! It IS a drag, especially when you're tired and worn out (and sweating like a big dawg!) 🙃👩🌾😰
=^..^=
Great work. Crispy
Nice work!
Love how my new bed looks, followed the same process you showed here, but I have grass coming up through the mulch. Even after having used Preen. Thoughts? Not thick enough mulch? What to do?
Digs out a sharp edge for mulch. “I love the natural look” lol. it may not be natural but i did that around my trees and love the look
It’s called a natural edge because you arent using any material for the actual edge 😂🤷🏻♂️ makes sense to me!
Lawn whisperer... 🥰 Ur comment 🤣🤣👍
Great video brother!
Looks so good! Love that live edge!
Its eight thirty am. Here in lovely Gardner mass...uhhmmm.. im getting ready to get some serious mulch action started here in a little bit...i ve been out of the mulch game for a few ...but im a beast with that s.... So is there any true mulch artisan will tell you sometimes you just got to jump back into it and that's what I'm going to do I do like the video I like the edging quite a bit but as a middle-aged New England man embarking on yet again another mulch journey I got to tell you I'm a little bit mulch pissed right now.... No I'm just kidding thanks for being a good sport man.. but in all seriousness I'm getting some serious New England style mulch action done today you heard... again im joking around...like the video
Looks good, must be nice not to have to deal with all the rocks like we have in the North East.
How do you prevent the mulch from pouring over into the grass and create more work
Will that edge be a puddle problem when it rains?
Great tutorial! Any suggestions on best time of year to start a project like this? Fall, spring?
Also, do you find any problems with termites or bugs with mulch that close to the house?
exactly what I was after, with some added innuendos too lol
Does the water pool in the trench when it rains..?
So did you put some weed prevention control product to keep weeds out ?
Not first but still early.
What do you do when the ground crumbles where the grass won’t grow like around an old oak tree. Trying to get that check mark and it turned into a ditch in some areas. Would love i sights on that. It only happened where the grass hasn’t grown yet.
Nice job bruh!
How would you prevent weeds growing in that new bed?
Do you use landscaping fabric at all also how thick do you lay down your mulch????
Nice work improving the plant parts of your yard. Now the bed and grass look even better. I’m surprised you didn’t use a pre emergent on the bare dirt or some fertilizer like plant tone in the hole. Don’t you like putting things in the hole when you fill it? I do, I do. 🤣
Loooooove filling holes... 😳 I ran out of my pre emergent I used on the other side 😞 I need to get more!!
No soil amendments? I’ve got nothing but clay and would need to till in or somehow mix in soil amendments.
Is it possible to transplant the grass you remove to form the beds?
Do you have to water the flowers im just a little confused with them being in the mulch...i will be doing my own landscaping and im wanting some beautiful flowers like this or the kind that are outside of business that look the same year-round...
Just curious is weed barrier not needed?
Great upgrade, however it will make a bigger impact if the bed extends to where the siding on the house goes downhill. Just my 2 cents. Looks good either way.
Agreed. I may do that eventually but didn’t want to for this demonstration 👍 I may do it in the fall though
Man you truly you know your stuff and explain everything well. Awesome video and definitely subscribed to your channel
How do I pick out a good edger not to high
An edger like in the video? They’re fairly cheap on Amazon or lowes. Links in the description of this video
Very nice
Any suggestions for removing the grass in large area all around my entire house so I can add landscaping?
Rent a sod cutter
What do you recommend to put under the mulch so weed doesn't grow?
No weed barrier above the dirt?
Love the great information I could not figure out how to use my edger to make that clean edge! Lol Where do you dump your debris, specifically the dirt? I can dump my trimmings but no place I can find accepts soil. Any advice? Thanks in Advance.
Maybe give it away on Craigs List.
Looks great Justin, can’t go wrong with a natural/live edge! Also great job editing the video. Saw your story about the audio not working after you filmed, that had to be frustrating
For sure frustrating but I made the best of it! Went back out and filmed the talking points yesterday tie those in
Very much appreciate this video! Why did you use a material to stop weeds from growing up?
GREAT video!!
I have a river rock bed, live edge still look good with that?
Would mulching near the house causing a potential termite problem?
How do you keep weeds from growing in the bed?
Turned out really good 👍🏻
Thanks brother!
Thanks
Great video. Was just going to redo my front flower beds as the old steel edging is rusted and everything looks terrible. I bought new black steel edging but now I'm thinking I may just do this. Are there any negatives to this type of live edge? I mean I get how the grass controls itself from growing into the bed because the roots die before it can spread but what about water erosion? How does this edge not just deteriorate over time into a slump of mud? Could I not do this and then install my steel edging inside of the live edge or would that defeat the purpose?
Again, great video. Thanks for sharing.
What type of mulch are you using 🥺
Hi, new to the channel and love your videos. I'm sure you have covered this at some point but why don't you use a weed barrier? Isn't the weed and grass growth a pain to maintain?
Honestly when I originally put my front mulch bed in I used weed barrier and lots of weeds still grew through. I didn’t find it worth the time and effort and money to do. But that’s just my situation some people may have better success with it
Love it! What mulch do you use?
Do you prefer mulch over river rock? If so, why? Wondering if I could do this same project with river rock instead. Thanks!