I've made 14 raised beds, always in the late summer and fall. I'd pitch grass clippings, garden rejects, wet and moldy straw or hay, leaves, bulk compost and or soil and deep bedding from the chicken coop. Layered and mixed all together with some minerals like azomite and let it percolate over winter with a leaf layer to protect it.
The only other thing I would add is some cut up bananas to tease the worms to come up and start eating. Once they're done with the bananas they'll get to work on everything else, now you have worm castings and everything churned up to help your plants. Don't forget to waterdown everything because it needs moisture to start decomposing.
don't mix-in the worm foods that will decompose too "hot" - the worms like retreat to an area with less rotting and also from too much water/rain! put the kitchen scraps on top with minimal soils overtop to keep the smells and rodents away. Otherwise the worms will crawl out
Nice raised garden bed. I’ve always wanted a raised garden bed. I’m gonna build a raised garden bed just like your raised garden bed using your video on raised garden beds..
Should be a nice raised garden bed I would like to see your raised garden bed Hope you have a wonderful time planting your raised garden bed Happy Sunday and Good luck 🤞🏾 with your raised garden bed 😂
great raised garden bed video about a raised garden bed, you my momma used to have a raised garden bed and she used just used whatever she had lying around to fill up her raised garden bed, man i miss my momma's raised garden bed.
@@bryancromwell9625and Monsanto claimed Roundup was nontoxic for the last 25 years but now we know that was a lie! "Safer" and safe are completely different ideas!
@fackeyutub-emael6545 that's to bad...I have had a worm farm for the past Years and friends drop by organic peelings and coffee grounds...in spring they get a bag of worm castings...been a good trade.
Thank you. My elderly parents were talking about making a larger garden with some raised garden beds because bending over is hard on their backs. This is great!
Do it, my brother and I made one for my mom a couple years ago. Keeps her moving, and more importantly, keeps her brain engaged and a responsibility that's manageable for her, so she actually enjoys it and finally most importantly, because it's enjoyable, its sustainable
I use bulk mushroom compost from the nursery. Its a lot cheaper than bags and it has much more organic content. Im in Tn. and this is my first time trying year round gardening.
I use to put pine chips in my chicken house and cleaned them once a month man your right about using all the stuff. Also called our local city and they actually brought out loads of wood chips in a dump truck and dump them and we composted them made great amended soil.
Im just impressed that the white jacket didnt get one dirt stain on it 👍 but seriously tho that is really good advice im going to ve doing this from now on
I've done something similar multiple times! I'm a huge fan of bottom loading with organic matter. Cardboard, leaves, hay, rough compost, logs, branches, kitchen scraps, you name it! Been growing in these beds for years now with epic results!
I tell every single person I know who is even considering micro homesteading or just intro gardening, which makes me just joyful in my heart that a true gardener has their own mixed combination that they swear by for soil, and I love it, they have their own compost, formulation, sub, or how they do it
I have a patch of clay on the side of my house. Decades ago it was dirt and moss. I'm not sure what happened. This fall I used the leaf blower to cover the area with a thick layer of leaves and I staked down some landscaping cloth ON TOP so the leaves don't blow away. I'm leaving it that way for a year or two before I try to plant grass. Maybe I'll plant moss again.
Some things are just worth the effort, this is one of them. It has to be done either way, and doing it now rather than later has a bigger payoff. Work smarter, not harder 😉
I have an allotment and today I built another raised bed. Can't wait to use it. I have pet hens so I also make my own compost and liquid feed. Nothing better than getting your hands in soil and then picking your veg.
When i fill my beds, i just head out ot the bog on the bag 40. fill up a couple old feed bags with the muck, let it dry in the sun for a few weeks, ands then mix it with the soil from my old pig pen. Last year i had beefsteak tomatoes the size of small pumpkins.
I had heard for raised gardens you want to do this, compost in the box. But I believe the ratio was brown, green interchanging layers. That way you have moisture of newly composting material with some already decomposing. Oh and worms!! Not sure if this works because I don't live where you can plant.
I wouldn’t lay it on the ground though. The worms need to be able to come up. Just line the insides of the wood. Also to stop the wood rotting away and to last a lot longer. 😊
I only use steel for raised beds but I understand that the chemicals used to treat wood nowadays is not toxic. That’s what I’ve heard, but I still do not use it.
Love to see your process thank you for sharing but I do recommend not using peat moss as most peat moss is not ethically or sustainably sourced and it can take thousands of years to replenish and re-establish. Peat bogs are an important ecosystem that is rapidly disappearing. I highly recommend using mushroom compost instead in your mix.❤
Wood isnt treated with aresenic anymore and it has already been proven that any (copper) leeching from modern pressure treated lumber incredibly small, and the risk to humans even smaller. If you want to go off of what you "feel" like, that's fine for your own garden. But dont go around spreading misinformation that has been disproven.
you can sign up for chip drop.. it's where tree trimming services will bring you free loads of wood chips. that being said you WON'T know if any of them had been treated with chemicals in the past or if any poison ivy was on the trees before being chipped. we were going to do this but decided not to due to those 2 reasons.
They have to pay to dump woodchips, so if you just call and ask they’re extremely happy to get rid of them and they drop them anywhere you need. No bribe necessary you’re doing them a favor by taking them.
I used to work at a peat moss bagging plant. The stuff that didn't break down for bagging was given away to chicken breeders as bedding. Once it was full of chicken poop, they gave it back to us, we composted it and sold it as a premium organic fertilizer. Chicken poop is EXCELLENT fertilizer!
Next time go out to the forest, find a fallen tree that’s started rotting and bring back a trailer full to put at the bottom of your raised bed. Then leaves etc and then compost mixed with dirt.
hugelkultur! Make sure to find one really rotted though, half the time in my experience the wood bed sides rot before the wood in the bottom starts decomposing! Either way tho saving money on soil
This is exactly what we do ! Glad to see its good 👍 there are so many ways and books who tell you to do it many different ways. I also been adding blood mill and bone mill in mix for vegetables and such for right one. We have tons of ducks chickens and ducks and turkeys and horses and pigs and more so let there poo break down during winter in beds and not so strong come spring when mixed with all this stuff. The ashes we thought were great ides.
First of all I'm going to save you some money. Take all those leaves lay them out in the shape of the bed cover it with black plastic leave it till April 1st. The worms will move in because no cardboard and they will eat the leaves and anything else that is there. Come spring add 2 inches of topsoil, plant your seed or plants.
@TheWhale45 people use it for different reasons. As a filler material, carbon source to balance out nitrogen additions, weed suppression. I dont use cardboard in the bottoms of my bed personally. I use shredded cardboard as mulch and in making compost. I will also use flattened cardboard on top of the soil for moisture retention for certain crops like carrots. Cardboard is just a great addition in the garden and most people generally have tons of it from packages and such, so it's cheap and easy
@TheWhale45 also there is certain cardboard that is plastic coated so that shouldn't be used. Think like shiny smooth boxes that are covered in print/product pictures
- Cardboard with ink will leech it into the soil; - I find uniformly layering dry leaves towards the bottom creates a compaction layer which retains too much water and promotoes rot instead of decomposition; - the heat from microbian activity when you start a bed will promote root and plant growth when plants aren't dorment. I've always made new beds in early spring/ spring sowing season
Only suggestion is stay away from pt lumber when makeing the bed. If you do decide to use the pt to save on cedar prices make sure to use a liner if using it for growing veggies. That prevents the leeching of the chemicals off the wood.
yikes add some logs at the bottom man. up to the high ankles. Then the chicken coop stuff then leaves, then more chicken coop. it's cheaper and the log layer breaks down over 10 years. you can use woodchips and chicken coup stuff as a layer as well that breaks down faser than straight logs your looking at like 3ish years.
@@Hobbsthetiger You can also fill it withwoodchips but the point ins't for the bottom to rott out quickly. In a sense it's just filler. Roots move right past that zone without too many issues if they need root that far down and most don't except carrots and d radish. chicken poop/manure will rot out for those weird spots. Rabbit manure is better, cuy, or llama.
I suggest getting yourself a composter, I have an electric one called geme, sits right next to my recycling bin in my kitchen.... always have a fresh supply of the best fertilized soil
Best to use corrugated sheet metal like zinc fence instead of wood. It will last the years and no danger of rotting out. I’d paint the zinc with a weather coat on the outside and use galvanized screws if I was making it. Fill the whole thing with horse manure and a drop of mamothP
No matter what any TH-cam connoisseur /comment artist tells you. That’s a hard no on pressure treated lumber. Period. You’re welcome to use it in your garden if you’d like 😉
@@tattoosteveneo no I’m just some idiot on TH-cam. No idea what I’m talking about. You’re right go ahead and use pressure treated lumber for your garden beds.
We do serious raised bed planting, and add plastic lining on the sides to curb the drying out of the bed's sides. Everything else here is bueno, but controlling moisture loss from the wooden sides proves very helpful.
you can also get free composted manure at the local recycling centre. Atleast you can in Denmark. There are so much energy in that so it has to be mixed with some less energy content spagnum or similar.
Being able to access the garden on all sides would have nothing to do with whether its raised or not and everything to do with where the garden is placed. You can just as easily have an inground garden that is accessible on all sides.
I use a bale of hay, I don’t use pine bedding chips, it does something to the soil (acidic??)that I don’t need for what I’m growing. Keep in mind that that stuff will decompose and what looks like the right soil level in the beginning will drop down in a couple weeks, so like he’s telling you and do all your conditioning in the off season.
People really don't know what they're talking about with pressure treated wood. For over 20 years, pressure treated wood has been doped with a copper compound to do the job. Unless you have ancient pressure treated wood laying around or build a bed out of railroad sleepers, it's safe to use pressure treated wood.
Wood will never last very long when it’s touching wet soil, pressure treated or not. But pressure treated lumber is full of chemicals like copper and oil that are certainly not great to have leaching into your soil, lawn, and food.
@@ImranZakhaev9the problem wasn’t the copper itself it was the chromated copper arsenate leaching arsenic into soils. CCA has been banned in pressure treatments. Copper quat is used now to prevent rot and fungus, same chemical that’s used as a fungicide in pools. Perfectly fine for retaining soil.
have u tried old broken branches? It's called Hugelkulture and they take several years to decay all the while elevating the amount of moisture in your box.
i buy 2 new beds every year they go on sale. i like the waist high beds . and build them when i get them. usually in the spring or summer. but i don't plant them out. i fill those suckers up all season and all winter with compostables. we keep topping it off as it sinks all year. so when the next planting season starts i just need to top it off with dirt. it really helps with drastic settingling.
Hey Einstein, you’re using pressure treated wood. Pressure treated wood leeches all of its chemicals into the surrounding ground i.e. your garden. I hope you don’t mind ingesting chemicals with your vegetables. Best of luck
There is nothing in this video to suggest that any of this is treated wood. Now, the treated wood does release toxins into the soil. Probably varies due to both soil makeup, it's PH, and amount of watering/rain you have. Whether those toxins are then taken up into your plants and in what quantity I have no clue. I just avoid using treated wood if possible and the few places there is some I don't plant veggies nearby. Example, one neighbor replaced part of the fence between us. Treated posts. I'm using containers in that area. Other neighbor replaced entire fence between us. They sprang big $$$ on redwood posts. Not treated, last the rest of my lifetime and not an issue.
If you have some way of letting ashes age for a few years; they’re astounding. Decomposed ash will deepen the green in all stems and leaves. You will see a growth size increase of 15-25% right off the bat.
@@bbbean Studies showed for years that eggs were bad for you. Then they were good. Then they were bad. Now they're good. Point is, why bother risking arsenic and god knows what else in your vegetables? Natural is always better.
Hah. I see what you're doing. You should mention the soil cooking period building a super soil. Good functional technique you're doing for healthy soil with good microbial life
The best performing garden we ever grew was In around 1958. That past winter, we had moved to a 40 acer older farm. Mom decided to raise chickens. I had chosen to be the outdoor chore kid and was responsible for the evening care and feeding of all our animals. 2 horses, 1 huge pig, 2 steers, 4 dairy goats & 1 Billy,8 numerous ducks, and 300 chicks, I was maybe 7 years old and was tasked with cleaning out the ~16 x 16 ft coop and spreading it on the 1/4 acre spot she had decided to have our garden. The powder dry manure was between 1 -> 2 ft deep. The harvest from all those plants was out of this world. The Bonnie Best tomatoes were the usual size of Beef Steaks, and the Beef Steaks were larger than her 8 inch plates. We also spread ashes from the wood and coal fired furnace, finely crushed eggshell, and the waste vegetable bits from meal preparation. The Indian Corn and Pop Corn plants all had 2- 3 large ears per stalk. The sweet corn ears were a wonder. The potatoes were huge. We canned as much as we had jars for. The root cellar was actually full. It was one of my favorite places to read. The place smelled wonderful, all earthy. It smelled especially good after we had stored the apples and carrots. The root cellar was cool in the summer. Important because we didn't have no air conditioning. My parents took bushels of tomatoes and canning pickles to co-workers.
Another good reason to build raised beds at the end of the growing season and fill up is that everything (except the logs if any) is usually decomposed enough to start planting into by late spring. But I no longer build tall beds like yours though. They dry out too quickly without an irrigation system and I have found that my plants do much better when they can grow into native soil.
Very smart, and you are right. Two questions: Have you ever shifted those bags you're putting in blackkow is full of rock? Even a very expensive worm casting I did last year had little rocks. Second question: Do you know about biochar? Thank you, and you're welcome.
It's not just about soil cost, it's also the savings on fertilizer because most of the stuff thrown in that raised bed is natural fertilizer that will break down over time, is healthier for the plants, and does not contain pesticides. Although wood ash is better than charcoal ash, they both are better than miracle grow...
Theres not much nutrition in the stuff he threw under, even when it breaks down, its mostly for volume. Depending on what he's growing, roots might not even reach the bottom. If you want to enrich soil you need to use wood chips and let them break down.
@@AlenAbdula you are incorrect. Wood is mostly cellulose fibers. The dried wood has very little nutrients compared to the leaves and it takes much longer for wood to break down to make whatever nutrients bioavailable to the garden plants. Leaves contain much higher amounts of nutrients. Do you make a salad with wood chips? The charcoal and ash are good sources of nitrogen and will help keep the soil clean of parasitic pests. Wood chips are good in compost, but compost is not just wood chips. What's that saying, "common sense isn't common anymore"...
The only things I'd add is, if it's longer than 5ft, put in cross beam for support and line the boxes with 6mil plastic. Chemicals from wood cant contaminate soil and the boxes last alot longer because moisture from the soil can't get to the wood. I've got 6 boxes that are at least 9 years old and in great shape.
Sounds like a plan! Neighbors would complain about leaves, I'd send my children ovsr to rake them up. They knew thpse leaves turned into gold in our garden beds. So it was a win for us and the neighnors. Problem when your neighbors start gardening too, they understand what they were giving away. If you have hawks in the area, leave a pile just for them. Nothong like watching one gather leaves to line her nest.
I throw the ashes from my smoker into my garden every spring. I save all the ashes all summer and in the spring when I am tilling up the ground I usually put a 5 gallon buckets worth of ashes in the ground also.
That works in the 1/2 of the country that has good weather in winter. I'm forced to make beds (raised or otherwise) in Spring, conflicting with planting.
I had wooden garden beds but had to go to metal beds as the wooden ones only last a few seasons before they deteriorate, rot and attract termites. Metal beds are so much better.
stuff from the chicken coop or from the pigeons in the attick, is excellent material for your veggie garden, no matter conventional soil gardening or in raised garden beds
I've made 14 raised beds, always in the late summer and fall. I'd pitch grass clippings, garden rejects, wet and moldy straw or hay, leaves, bulk compost and or soil and deep bedding from the chicken coop. Layered and mixed all together with some minerals like azomite and let it percolate over winter with a leaf layer to protect it.
100% truth
Take a drink everytime he says 'raised garden bed' lol. I love it ❤️🤣
Ha, okay it wasn't just me 😂
I was typing that as I read your comment 😂
You beat me to it lol. Someone put it on a tee shirt! RGB
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The only other thing I would add is some cut up bananas to tease the worms to come up and start eating. Once they're done with the bananas they'll get to work on everything else, now you have worm castings and everything churned up to help your plants. Don't forget to waterdown everything because it needs moisture to start decomposing.
don't mix-in the worm foods that will decompose too "hot" - the worms like retreat to an area with less rotting and also from too much water/rain! put the kitchen scraps on top with minimal soils overtop to keep the smells and rodents away. Otherwise the worms will crawl out
Unfortunately, he put a cardboard liner in so the worms won't be entering for a while.
@@brookelord3448 cardboard does not stop worms from entering they'll just either eat their way in or go around.
What type of garden plant is gonna shoot roots 3 feet down into the ground to get to them composts????
@@spontaneousexpress what the heck are you talking about?
Nice raised garden bed. I’ve always wanted a raised garden bed. I’m gonna build a raised garden bed just like your raised garden bed using your video on raised garden beds..
Should be a nice raised garden bed I would like to see your raised garden bed Hope you have a wonderful time planting your raised garden bed Happy Sunday and Good luck 🤞🏾 with your raised garden bed 😂
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@JJ-ze6vb What raised garden bed? This is the first time I'm hearing about it.
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Are you guys talking about raised garden beds?
great raised garden bed video about a raised garden bed, you my momma used to have a raised garden bed and she used just used whatever she had lying around to fill up her raised garden bed, man i miss my momma's raised garden bed.
QUESTION DO the chemicals from the treated lumber leach into plants that you use for food?
Yes.... yes they do. DONT USE green treated for vegetables box. Only flower boxes.
Yellawood says there PT boards are fine for planter boxes. MCA is much much safer than the pre 2004 lumber that used ACQ (Arsenic)
@@bryancromwell9625and Monsanto claimed Roundup was nontoxic for the last 25 years but now we know that was a lie! "Safer" and safe are completely different ideas!
Put some landscape fabric on the inside before putting in the dirt.
@@julians-stuffthat’ll do it
This is a great recommendation for the south. Hard to build when you can't even see the ground under the snow up here.
Next time you stop by Starbucks. You can get a free large bag of the coffee grounds. Great for the garden
Thanks for the tip!
No, you cannot.
I tried. In fact, I tried every single coffee shop in my area. Mcds is the only one that gave me 8 ounces.
Worked for me 20 years ago....coffee shop , Starbucks, used to, but don't know now...
@@marjoriejohnson6535 not now bud, min. Wag. Wor. Afraid of everything
@fackeyutub-emael6545 that's to bad...I have had a worm farm for the past Years and friends drop by organic peelings and coffee grounds...in spring they get a bag of worm castings...been a good trade.
Thank you. My elderly parents were talking about making a larger garden with some raised garden beds because bending over is hard on their backs. This is great!
Do it, my brother and I made one for my mom a couple years ago. Keeps her moving, and more importantly, keeps her brain engaged and a responsibility that's manageable for her, so she actually enjoys it and finally most importantly, because it's enjoyable, its sustainable
I use bulk mushroom compost from the nursery. Its a lot cheaper than bags and it has much more organic content. Im in Tn. and this is my first time trying year round gardening.
They use mushroom soil EVERYWHERE in PA so Ur spot on 😊
That Black Cow fertilizer is great..I had a good garden using it this year.
I couldn’t help but notice you have a ginkgo next-door. Very nice fruit tree.
They smell like vomit and most people hate having them nearby for that reason.
Ginkgo nuts are supposed to be tasty.
I use to put pine chips in my chicken house and cleaned them once a month man your right about using all the stuff. Also called our local city and they actually brought out loads of wood chips in a dump truck and dump them and we composted them made great amended soil.
You should go somewhere and get your soil mix by the pickup load. You'll fill up that box for a lot cheaper than buying all the bags it'll take.
30-50 bucks for a yard of dirt/compost way cheaper the scam bags
Im just impressed that the white jacket didnt get one dirt stain on it 👍 but seriously tho that is really good advice im going to ve doing this from now on
🤣 thanks
I've done something similar multiple times! I'm a huge fan of bottom loading with organic matter. Cardboard, leaves, hay, rough compost, logs, branches, kitchen scraps, you name it! Been growing in these beds for years now with epic results!
I tell every single person I know who is even considering micro homesteading or just intro gardening, which makes me just joyful in my heart that a true gardener has their own mixed combination that they swear by for soil, and I love it, they have their own compost, formulation, sub, or how they do it
I have a patch of clay on the side of my house. Decades ago it was dirt and moss. I'm not sure what happened. This fall I used the leaf blower to cover the area with a thick layer of leaves and I staked down some landscaping cloth ON TOP so the leaves don't blow away. I'm leaving it that way for a year or two before I try to plant grass. Maybe I'll plant moss again.
such a wealth of knowledge contained in yr channel and yr community you've built around it. i gotta start taking notes!!
Thanks!
Did you use pt?
Danget I dont want to do more outdoor winter things but I will have to now.
I know!
Some things are just worth the effort, this is one of them. It has to be done either way, and doing it now rather than later has a bigger payoff. Work smarter, not harder 😉
I have an allotment and today I built another raised bed. Can't wait to use it. I have pet hens so I also make my own compost and liquid feed. Nothing better than getting your hands in soil and then picking your veg.
Cedar wood is the best option for a raised garden bed
Never, never, never treated wood
and most expensive, but yea that cedar will last a long long time!
Just grow in the ground. No need to cut a tree to grow food. Learn to use your body properly and find a good chiropractor and your back will be fine.
Look at how much y’all have grown over the last year or so! Great job Salty Acres! ❤
When i fill my beds, i just head out ot the bog on the bag 40.
fill up a couple old feed bags with the muck, let it dry in the sun for a few weeks, ands then mix it with the soil from my old pig pen.
Last year i had beefsteak tomatoes the size of small pumpkins.
I had heard for raised gardens you want to do this, compost in the box. But I believe the ratio was brown, green interchanging layers. That way you have moisture of newly composting material with some already decomposing. Oh and worms!! Not sure if this works because I don't live where you can plant.
I recently used all the grass from mowing my lawn to 1/2 fill 2 of my raised beds
May want plastic coated 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch hardware cloth for moles and vole protection.
Never thought about that
I wouldn’t lay it on the ground though. The worms need to be able to come up. Just line the insides of the wood. Also to stop the wood rotting away and to last a lot longer. 😊
@@66REDD66😂😂😂😂😂 1/2” HALF AN INCH openings is more than enough for worms 😂😂😂😂😂😂
💯 when it's planting time, you can't be in the building phase. I've made that mistake once and never forgot it!
I only use steel for raised beds but I understand that the chemicals used to treat wood nowadays is not toxic.
That’s what I’ve heard, but I still do not use it.
😂😂😂 the fuck you’d think keeps steel from rusting?
@@lonewolftechgalvanized steel is made of a zinc coating. Wood can be treated in many ways, many of which contain arsenic.
Love to see your process thank you for sharing but I do recommend not using peat moss as most peat moss is not ethically or sustainably sourced and it can take thousands of years to replenish and re-establish. Peat bogs are an important ecosystem that is rapidly disappearing. I highly recommend using mushroom compost instead in your mix.❤
Pressure treated wood? I hope you think about what leaks into the soil and absorbed by the plants.
Where did you see the pressure treated lumber?
@@dozer1642the wood he used…
@@dozer1642it’s very obvious
Normal wood isn't green @dozer1642
Wood isnt treated with aresenic anymore and it has already been proven that any (copper) leeching from modern pressure treated lumber incredibly small, and the risk to humans even smaller.
If you want to go off of what you "feel" like, that's fine for your own garden. But dont go around spreading misinformation that has been disproven.
Soil is everything! Kitchen scraps, it you are not rooting then, is golden. Chicken nuggets! 🐓🪱 Excellent!
My garden expert bribes the tree cutters to drop huge amounts of shredded trees every time she builds new boxes.
you can sign up for chip drop.. it's where tree trimming services will bring you free loads of wood chips. that being said you WON'T know if any of them had been treated with chemicals in the past or if any poison ivy was on the trees before being chipped. we were going to do this but decided not to due to those 2 reasons.
They have to pay to dump woodchips, so if you just call and ask they’re extremely happy to get rid of them and they drop them anywhere you need. No bribe necessary you’re doing them a favor by taking them.
I used to work at a peat moss bagging plant. The stuff that didn't break down for bagging was given away to chicken breeders as bedding. Once it was full of chicken poop, they gave it back to us, we composted it and sold it as a premium organic fertilizer. Chicken poop is EXCELLENT fertilizer!
Next time go out to the forest, find a fallen tree that’s started rotting and bring back a trailer full to put at the bottom of your raised bed.
Then leaves etc and then compost mixed with dirt.
hugelkultur! Make sure to find one really rotted though, half the time in my experience the wood bed sides rot before the wood in the bottom starts decomposing! Either way tho saving money on soil
This is exactly what we do ! Glad to see its good 👍 there are so many ways and books who tell you to do it many different ways. I also been adding blood mill and bone mill in mix for vegetables and such for right one. We have tons of ducks chickens and ducks and turkeys and horses and pigs and more so let there poo break down during winter in beds and not so strong come spring when mixed with all this stuff. The ashes we thought were great ides.
First of all I'm going to save you some money. Take all those leaves lay them out in the shape of the bed cover it with black plastic leave it till April 1st. The worms will move in because no cardboard and they will eat the leaves and anything else that is there. Come spring add 2 inches of topsoil, plant your seed or plants.
Cardboard keeps your worms away? Funny, mine do just fine. But the black plastic probably does warm it up nicely for them!
Cardboard doesnt keep the worms out. They actually like it
@@bbbean Must be the cardboard I used. But why are we putting cardboard down anyway>
@TheWhale45 people use it for different reasons. As a filler material, carbon source to balance out nitrogen additions, weed suppression. I dont use cardboard in the bottoms of my bed personally. I use shredded cardboard as mulch and in making compost. I will also use flattened cardboard on top of the soil for moisture retention for certain crops like carrots. Cardboard is just a great addition in the garden and most people generally have tons of it from packages and such, so it's cheap and easy
@TheWhale45 also there is certain cardboard that is plastic coated so that shouldn't be used. Think like shiny smooth boxes that are covered in print/product pictures
- Cardboard with ink will leech it into the soil;
- I find uniformly layering dry leaves towards the bottom creates a compaction layer which retains too much water and promotoes rot instead of decomposition;
- the heat from microbian activity when you start a bed will promote root and plant growth when plants aren't dorment. I've always made new beds in early spring/ spring sowing season
Only suggestion is stay away from pt lumber when makeing the bed. If you do decide to use the pt to save on cedar prices make sure to use a liner if using it for growing veggies. That prevents the leeching of the chemicals off the wood.
Made a video just for u yesterday. Go watch it
yikes add some logs at the bottom man. up to the high ankles. Then the chicken coop stuff then leaves, then more chicken coop. it's cheaper and the log layer breaks down over 10 years. you can use woodchips and chicken coup stuff as a layer as well that breaks down faser than straight logs your looking at like 3ish years.
hugelkultur ! I think The outsides of the bed will rot before the wood decomposes thought but still saves money on soil
@@Hobbsthetiger You can also fill it withwoodchips but the point ins't for the bottom to rott out quickly. In a sense it's just filler. Roots move right past that zone without too many issues if they need root that far down and most don't except carrots and d radish. chicken poop/manure will rot out for those weird spots. Rabbit manure is better, cuy, or llama.
Key to a good garden of ANY sort is early preparation. Gives it time to settle and things to start breaking down. 😊
The cardboard doesn’t cause any drainage problems?
Not to my knowledge
@saltyacresnc old newspapers work well too.
It decomposes.
I suggest getting yourself a composter, I have an electric one called geme, sits right next to my recycling bin in my kitchen.... always have a fresh supply of the best fertilized soil
Best to use corrugated sheet metal like zinc fence instead of wood. It will last the years and no danger of rotting out. I’d paint the zinc with a weather coat on the outside and use galvanized screws if I was making it. Fill the whole thing with horse manure and a drop of mamothP
Thank you, I have all these leaves in my backyard and I had no idea what to do with them.
Should never use pressure treated lumber around plants or animals. Especially if it’s for growing food.
You can if you line the boards with tyvek or plastic.
They changed the treatment formula, it no longer has arsenic
No matter what any TH-cam connoisseur /comment artist tells you. That’s a hard no on pressure treated lumber. Period.
You’re welcome to use it in your garden if you’d like 😉
@@skyking9248 do you have any data at all on anything? But as you just said. Don’t believe any TH-cam comments including your own 😂
@@tattoosteveneo no I’m just some idiot on TH-cam. No idea what I’m talking about. You’re right go ahead and use pressure treated lumber for your garden beds.
We do serious raised bed planting, and add plastic lining on the sides to curb the drying out of the bed's sides. Everything else here is bueno, but controlling moisture loss from the wooden sides proves very helpful.
Eggs shells......coffee grounds.......and i do believe i read somewhere that sardines are beneficial
you can also get free composted manure at the local recycling centre. Atleast you can in Denmark. There are so much energy in that so it has to be mixed with some less energy content spagnum or similar.
We even put the ashes…. Well that is by far the best fertilizer….
Thanks!
Only problem with the ashes, if wood, then they are alkaline this can raise the ph of the soil
@@davidmunro2077stop worrying about our dumb shit that’s never truly mattered prior.
Don't use pressure treated lumber though. Or if you do, line it with plastic first.
One of the advantages of raised beds is being able to easily access the garden on all sides. So this guy placed his bed next to the fence.
Being able to access the garden on all sides would have nothing to do with whether its raised or not and everything to do with where the garden is placed. You can just as easily have an inground garden that is accessible on all sides.
I use a bale of hay, I don’t use pine bedding chips, it does something to the soil (acidic??)that I don’t need for what I’m growing. Keep in mind that that stuff will decompose and what looks like the right soil level in the beginning will drop down in a couple weeks, so like he’s telling you and do all your conditioning in the off season.
People really don't know what they're talking about with pressure treated wood. For over 20 years, pressure treated wood has been doped with a copper compound to do the job. Unless you have ancient pressure treated wood laying around or build a bed out of railroad sleepers, it's safe to use pressure treated wood.
Finally someone knows
Pine bark mulch? May as well toss in black walnut also.
If you dont understand my sarcasm, research it.
Say "raised garden bed" one more time. I dare you
Raised garden bed
@@saltyacresnc ⚰
"Raised garden bay-ed" 😂
On God.
"Nobody asked you a God damn thing"
I put mine on 4 legs so it stands taller. Less stress on the lower back when planting, harvesting etc.. :)
Yummy those good old organic leached, pressure-treated chemicals in my food😂 folks, you don’t use pressure-treated on a raised bed
I was thinking he used pressure treated to slow down the decomposition of the walls…
Wood will never last very long when it’s touching wet soil, pressure treated or not. But pressure treated lumber is full of chemicals like copper and oil that are certainly not great to have leaching into your soil, lawn, and food.
Raised beds are for morons. Just put the plants in the dirt stupid.
I came here to say this, although no as well as you did. 😂
@@ImranZakhaev9the problem wasn’t the copper itself it was the chromated copper arsenate leaching arsenic into soils. CCA has been banned in pressure treatments. Copper quat is used now to prevent rot and fungus, same chemical that’s used as a fungicide in pools. Perfectly fine for retaining soil.
You can also use logs to fill the bottoms a lot with leaves
My grandfather always said dirt in under your fingernails soil is in the ground. It's soil.
have u tried old broken branches? It's called Hugelkulture and they take several years to decay all the while elevating the amount of moisture in your box.
You're gonna be rich with all the 2 cents everyone is giving here in the comments!
i buy 2 new beds every year they go on sale. i like the waist high beds . and build them when i get them. usually in the spring or summer. but i don't plant them out. i fill those suckers up all season and all winter with compostables. we keep topping it off as it sinks all year. so when the next planting season starts i just need to top it off with dirt. it really helps with drastic settingling.
Hey Einstein, you’re using pressure treated wood. Pressure treated wood leeches all of its chemicals into the surrounding ground i.e. your garden. I hope you don’t mind ingesting chemicals with your vegetables. Best of luck
Just use a liner
Water is a chemical. When people try to use the "chemical bad" argument, I immediately know they have no idea what they're talking about.
Hey Einstein..check your facts before running your mouth and looking stupld..not all treated woods are like that.
Add kitchen scraps and egg shells for a beautiful rich soil.
They say that treated lumber will leach toxins into your food. I don't know if that's true but I'm one to say... better safe than sorry imo.
There is nothing in this video to suggest that any of this is treated wood. Now, the treated wood does release toxins into the soil. Probably varies due to both soil makeup, it's PH, and amount of watering/rain you have. Whether those toxins are then taken up into your plants and in what quantity I have no clue. I just avoid using treated wood if possible and the few places there is some I don't plant veggies nearby. Example, one neighbor replaced part of the fence between us. Treated posts. I'm using containers in that area. Other neighbor replaced entire fence between us. They sprang big $$$ on redwood posts. Not treated, last the rest of my lifetime and not an issue.
That, definitely looks like treated timber!
The fact that the pine looks green and there's a tag on the end of the board suggests that's treated lumber.
If you have some way of letting ashes age for a few years; they’re astounding.
Decomposed ash will deepen the green in all stems and leaves. You will see a growth size increase of 15-25% right off the bat.
Is the growth size in the green leaves or the fruit or what.?
Never grow food grown around pressure treated Lumber. Worst choice
Cheaper and super nutrient dense. Good job guys!
Raised garden beds with
CHEMICALLY INFESTED LUMBER.
Mmmm, just like momma used to make.
For those of you in colder climates, a refrigerator on its back is insulated and easily covered . Add a drainage , you could build a green house.
if youre growing food you really gotta line that with something
Lol no he doesn't 🤣 no need to line a raised bed
@@easyRider728 yes, with treated lumber you most certainly do.
@Teeveepicksures no, you most certainly don't. Studies have already shown there is virtually no risk to humans from modern pressure treatments
@@bbbean Studies showed for years that eggs were bad for you. Then they were good. Then they were bad. Now they're good. Point is, why bother risking arsenic and god knows what else in your vegetables? Natural is always better.
Is it safe to use treated wood for your raised garden bed?
Hah. I see what you're doing. You should mention the soil cooking period building a super soil. Good functional technique you're doing for healthy soil with good microbial life
I’d line the inside of the bed with some sort of sheeting/liner so the wood lasts longer and doesn’t rot away as quickly. 😊
We do this with stacked tires we find abandoned tires and use threm as raised garden beds
What a great idea to do with all your clippings.
The best performing garden we ever grew was In around 1958. That past winter, we had moved to a 40 acer older farm.
Mom decided to raise chickens. I had chosen to be the outdoor chore kid and was responsible for the evening care and feeding of all our animals. 2 horses, 1 huge pig, 2 steers, 4 dairy goats & 1 Billy,8 numerous ducks, and 300 chicks, I was maybe 7 years old and was tasked with cleaning out the ~16 x 16 ft coop and spreading it on the 1/4 acre spot she had decided to have our garden. The powder dry manure was between 1 -> 2 ft deep.
The harvest from all those plants was out of this world. The Bonnie Best tomatoes were the usual size of Beef Steaks, and the Beef Steaks were larger than her 8 inch plates. We also spread ashes from the wood and coal fired furnace, finely crushed eggshell, and the waste vegetable bits from meal preparation.
The Indian Corn and Pop Corn plants all had 2- 3 large ears per stalk. The sweet corn ears were a wonder. The potatoes were huge. We canned as much as we had jars for.
The root cellar was actually full. It was one of my favorite places to read. The place smelled wonderful, all earthy. It smelled especially good after we had stored the apples and carrots.
The root cellar was cool in the summer. Important because we didn't have no air conditioning.
My parents took bushels of tomatoes and canning pickles to co-workers.
Another good reason to build raised beds at the end of the growing season and fill up is that everything (except the logs if any) is usually decomposed enough to start planting into by late spring. But I no longer build tall beds like yours though. They dry out too quickly without an irrigation system and I have found that my plants do much better when they can grow into native soil.
Good Idea! I need to get started myself
You should!
I always get my garden set up in the fall right when everything is dead and I pull everything out. That's when I build new beds and put mulch down
Very smart, and you are right. Two questions: Have you ever shifted those bags you're putting in blackkow is full of rock? Even a very expensive worm casting I did last year had little rocks. Second question: Do you know about biochar? Thank you, and you're welcome.
It's not just about soil cost, it's also the savings on fertilizer because most of the stuff thrown in that raised bed is natural fertilizer that will break down over time, is healthier for the plants, and does not contain pesticides. Although wood ash is better than charcoal ash, they both are better than miracle grow...
Theres not much nutrition in the stuff he threw under, even when it breaks down, its mostly for volume. Depending on what he's growing, roots might not even reach the bottom. If you want to enrich soil you need to use wood chips and let them break down.
@@AlenAbdula you are incorrect. Wood is mostly cellulose fibers. The dried wood has very little nutrients compared to the leaves and it takes much longer for wood to break down to make whatever nutrients bioavailable to the garden plants. Leaves contain much higher amounts of nutrients. Do you make a salad with wood chips? The charcoal and ash are good sources of nitrogen and will help keep the soil clean of parasitic pests. Wood chips are good in compost, but compost is not just wood chips. What's that saying, "common sense isn't common anymore"...
@@exhibitedmeat694 do you make salad with dried leaves? Stop being condescending
@@AlenAbdula you're an idiot...
@@AlenAbdula I put dried leaves on my salad, yes. What do you think seasonings are? Stop being stupid...
I love your accent. It makes this video so fun.
Thank you 😊
It also gives the microbs time to develop as everything composts in place. Making a healthier environment for your plants 👍
Oh yes and merry Xmas , hope you and yours is all happy and healthy. Respect 👊🏻🤘🏻🙏🏻
is it safe to lay bottom with colored cardboard as this guy did?
Leaves, mixed with garden refuse, kitchen waste, and chicken manure and bedding, make the BEST compost
Yes!
The only things I'd add is, if it's longer than 5ft, put in cross beam for support and line the boxes with 6mil plastic. Chemicals from wood cant contaminate soil and the boxes last alot longer because moisture from the soil can't get to the wood. I've got 6 boxes that are at least 9 years old and in great shape.
Are coffee grounds really good for the garden...Oh what about used tea bags I have been throwing a couple of each of them in..
The garden too.😊❤😊❤
Sounds like a plan! Neighbors would complain about leaves, I'd send my children ovsr to rake them up. They knew thpse leaves turned into gold in our garden beds. So it was a win for us and the neighnors. Problem when your neighbors start gardening too, they understand what they were giving away. If you have hawks in the area, leave a pile just for them. Nothong like watching one gather leaves to line her nest.
I throw the ashes from my smoker into my garden every spring. I save all the ashes all summer and in the spring when I am tilling up the ground I usually put a 5 gallon buckets worth of ashes in the ground also.
That works in the 1/2 of the country that has good weather in winter. I'm forced to make beds (raised or otherwise) in Spring, conflicting with planting.
I had wooden garden beds but had to go to metal beds as the wooden ones only last a few seasons before they deteriorate, rot and attract termites. Metal beds are so much better.
Filling your bed with old or new logs is also a good filler that usually fills in your bed more quickly.
stuff from the chicken coop or from the pigeons in the attick, is excellent material for your veggie garden, no matter conventional soil gardening or in raised garden beds
True every cardboard and ashes and the garbages of trees can we used as fertilizer as well and they will decompose like no time...
Cow manure is THE BEST! I had 24" pansies (should be 6-8") and a geranium that was 50" in diameter!
I do same in large pots to minimize soil usage and weight
Right. Easy when there is 3 feet of snow to contend with. Southerners.
Mix the snow with equal parts compost and plant "winter wonder" carrots.
Thanks for your excellent recommendations!