How to Fill a Raised Bed (And Save Money)
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- You can fill a raised bed for free or for greatly reduced cost. Being aware of how much soil you need and what your options are can save you money when you fill a raised bed. Gardener Scott shows three different methods for filling raised beds and discusses the great expense when choosing to use store-bought, bagged "garden soil". Most gardeners can use soil and organic materials in their landscape to fill raised beds and create a healthy soil environment for plants. Similar to Hugelkultur, burying branches can fill the bottom half of raised beds and no extra cost.
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Thank you.
I guessed $500! 🤣🤣
I am trying to fill several large beds now. I'm having trouble finding somewhere to purchase soil in bulk, but in fairly smaller sizes if that makes sense. I'm not looking to spend a 1000 dollars for soil. Can you tell me where to look for quality soil in bulk? I'm in TN and dont know where to begin to look for this. Thanks for your help
@@amberemma6136 perhaps if you know someone building a house, you could load up a few trailers of top soil when they're digging the foundations
@@amberemma6136 Look for a landscape supply company or a rock yard for bulk soil.
I like the way he speaks slowly and clearly for those who are new to gardening, as well as raised beds
Thank you for such an informative option for raised beds. The recent loss of my husband has left me with empty gardens and an empty heart.
I am not able to take on the enormaty of his established gardens and wanted downsized options. Our children built me raised beds from wood scrapes and now
i know exactly how to fill them without huge out of pocket expense. So glad i stumbled on your channel. I think it was my husband who put you in my path. God bless you and yours. I look forward to watching and learning more. ❤
The Bob Ross of the plant world
Thank you. You solved two of my problems at once, filling my beds and eliminating my brush pile.
Thanks for sharing this info. I have been doing the "free method" for years and getting wonderful results. When I moved to North Carolina in 2007 I discovered the development had been built over a tobacco farm - not very conducive for vegetable gardening. By 2009 my neighbors were commenting about how black my garden soil was and still is today. I buried pine, oak, pecan tree limbs from our yard with grass cuttings, peat moss, compost from our kitchen, manure, egg shells etc. I built simple cages to compost from chicken wire and zip ties and dumped everything into them. Over the years, occasionally, I would add a mix of top soil and a bag of garden dirt. It does work! In the beginning I wasn't sure how to set up everything so I used huge planters and moved them accordingly. When I relocated the planters, I discovered the grass underneath was dying which made it easier to dig up and put a plant (normally tomato) with dirt in the spot. Last year we moved to an area with red clay. Doing the same thing and my garden is already producing!
Thank you for sharing your success story.
You should consider digging out a lot of the clay and throwing it away. I had too do that after trying several years. I started over and did better also adding egg shells, and other good things.
Thank you for this info. We have clay soil here too
I was trying to figure out how many bags of soil needed for my plants when happened to see this video. So glad to learn about this amazing method before trimming my tree branches and buying soil (planned to do it tomorrow). This will definitely save me at least half of the costs. Thanks for sharing!
Terrific video Scott. I live in Daytona Beach, Florida. I go to the beach regularly and pick up free dried seaweed. I wash it down , get the sand out and incorporate it in my beds around September. By February, the bed is ready and on fire. I actually use the exact same method you use. I do sprinkle some bone meal 2 weeks before planting. I will try to incorporate some peat moss later this year like you suggested. I think it will help with the drainage. Thank you again for educating us. God Bless you and your family.
Clear, concise good common sense. People need to hear more like this. A lot of people never "get it" and just go buy crap from a big box store and then wonder why their garden doesn't flourish
That is such a good idea! I have a bunch of branches that i needed to get rid of and i’m planning a garden for this summer so this is just perfect! Thanks for the idea
Planning our beds now - perfect timing to see this!
Another thing to help with the bulk is deciding to dig a pond. Not only do you get dirt for your mix (for free) but you also have a place to keep fish for an additional food source.
Good tip. I actually did that for mine but no fish in it yet. Except for the kid spastic one and little fishing rods from their fishing game. :)
Though it was cause one I wanted a small pond and two fir the birds and stuff 4o drink as supposedly having this source nearby helps to keep them from digging up your garden and your tomatoes etc looking for moisture. So yeah several possible benefits there , good one. :)
@TheCharleseye too many ignore ponds as a food source… practically care free and renewable.
Thank you for this clear and direct information. Just building my cinderblock bed (I watched your video for that as well) and wasn’t sure how to fill it for cheap. Luckily I just collected like 10 bags of leaves and I’m about to do some pruning so it’s awesome I can reuse everything to lower my cost. Thank you
Thank you! You are so right about purchasing soil for raised beds. I'll remember the log and branch trick for my next raised bed.
Hands down this is the best video I have seen on this subject! Thank you for your time and effort...blessings!
Thank you very much.
I recognized the drop in my soil and now I know what to do for my vegetable and flowers gardens❣️ Thank you sooo much ❤️
Awesome video, man! I'm starting a vegetable/medicine raised bed garden this year and your videos are the best and most informative I've found so far. Thanks for all the work you've put into these
How is the vegetable/ medicine garden doing?
Finally! The best advice on soil that makes sense. Thank you so much! Paying for growing soil is a drag.
Thank you so much! This saves me removing my yard waste AND it saves me on soil.
Absolutely genuine ' matter-of-fact' video that makes so much sense! Thank you! Really helped solidify my approach to filling my 4x8 raised bed cost effectively.
I fill the bottom 1/3 of my beds with wood chips from the local arborist. We just had 40 yards of chips dropped off for free. I like that you explain that lots of “topsoil” doesn’t contain actual soil. We get bulk topsoil mixed from sand and compost from a local aggregate company. They make amazing soil, and it’s much cheaper in bulk.
Thx Scott, it was a really good idea to hear this thing from you too. This method is sustainable and recycles all the wastes around a household, then finally produces again meal for a family. Pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. (Ter 3,19)
It looks like I'm going to be a professional farmer while I'm quarantine at home
Exactly why I’m here
cj p 😆😆😆right
Same!
I"ve been planning on doing a raised bed for a couple years and now is a good time to start.
We all better learn. The long term effects of this virus economically and the shutting of businesses (unemployment at an all time high) is going to take out the middle class, drive food and gas prices through the roof.
Thank you this is very helpful and I feel more confident in how I'm going to start my garden now for next year. I was going to start building the bed and gardening next spring I'm glad I didn't make that mistake.
Thank you for spending all this time to get information out to people. My husband and I are newbies and trying to learn as much as we can in the short time we have.
Lots of great information regarding compost, soils, mulch, and how to create good soil for planting. I have back yard gardened for several years now. Never thought of using my grass clippings for compost. Thanks Scott.
Thank you so much Scott!! I love your thorough explanation and believe it is important to know the "whys" of anything you are involved in, not just the "how to". Don't change your style of teaching, many of us like to know why. One day those who only know half the story will only reap half the rewards then wonder why. Thanks again!!
He's one channel I enjoy watching. Knows his stuff.
This is so accurate and people don’t realize how much it actually takes!
I loved your video. And I liked how your so to the point and not wasting my time hearing about your family or friends that I don't know and will never meet. Thank you from BLACK CANYON CITY , ARIZONA.
Great information, Scott. You have me wanting to get my compost pile back to work and layering now where I plan to plant next year. Thanks for sharing! Happy Gardening!
I am 70 years old and have not gardened before now. I am very grateful for your time and expertise to read my numerous questions and your (place dozens of affirmations and adjectives here!) very educational responses. Thank You.
I was shocked at the price of peat moss this year. I just bought a bag that big for $22 Canadian! Terrible. I remember buying it for $8 Canadian! I think just last year it was about $16. Inflation is making gardening and self sustainability even harder! That’s why videos like yours are so important! Thanks so much!!
I just watched this video a couple days ago. Today I was at my local nursery to discover that the prices for peat moss have doubled since this video. Ridiculous. 😢
Energy costs have gone up due to policy. When you make energy go up, you make everything go up, because every step of the process by which that product is sitting in the store has increased in cost. "Going Green" has a double meaning $$$
Peat moss is effectively a non-renewable resource because it takes many thousands of years to form
That's what they want!! They don't want us growing our own food.. or saving our own seeds everything's genetically modified so you have to buy drink seeds every year so save your seeds plz🙏❤️🌞😁
Probably the single most cost effective video I've seen all year. Great run down.
I'm researching all of this because I plan to start my very first garden (I live in Texas). I've watched a couple of your videos now and they are helpful, so thank you for that. I think I will shoot for building and filling my raised bed this fall. Thanks so much for all the tips!!
It's a year since you posted your comment, and I'm about to start a large garden (in Texas as well!) starting this Fall and hoping you've had success. I'm planning on using the Hugelkultur method. I need to look on the Internet after posting this to see if all the invasive Texas Mountain Cedar (which is actually Juniper not Cedar) that we've had uprooted will be acceptable to use in the garden.
I just built my first raised bed. This is the video I needed!
Thank you so much Gardener Scott, this is by far the best video I’ve seen regarding the proper use of what Mother Nature has to offer I want to start my own garden beds and I will definitely be using your method.
Thank you again and God bless
I just ordered my garden beds. I'm so glad I watched this before buying garden soil.
Our 200 yr old willow fell over last summer. It is now composting away in my garden.Lots of work, but well worth it!! did just what you suggested! Even had dirt delivered! TY
Thank you for the videos. I'm extending my patio out in the yard and have bags of grass and the root system.. I love the idea of the bed to make the compost in..thanks again
I am from Germany and moved to Colorado last year! Starting my garden beds this year and I am excited! So nice that you are from Colorado, too!! Thank you for all the tips! ☀️😊
Beware of herbicide Aminopyralid (manure, straw, hay, even bought compost, everything that could contain grass treated with it). It kills all but grass on the meadows, and damages many plants and veggies even in very small doses. _Neither digestion nor compsting_ breaks it down !
In the UK gardeners *_Charles Dowding_* * do tests with sensitive plants (peas or tomatoes) to see if bought compost or compost they made with free materials from farmers (or they get it from the city for instance, grass) is safe.
* highly recommended channel btw, if you like this channel you will be blown away by Dowding. After he rang the alarm bell (he has a following) and The Guardian reported on it, more and more gardeners (in Europe in the U.S. came forward). They had no idea what damaged their crops. But Dowding has a large enough operation to test in severa spots, and he has the authority - so to him it was clear it was not the location, the vatiety, it was the compost, so he started "digging".
If the test seeds / seedlings do not germinate or if existing seedling show the typical damage after being planted into the compost, they know they must not spread that batch of compost (they grow a few in soil that they know is safe to compare - so the company DOW Chemicals cannot deny and downplay. Needless to say politicians have not reacted. That blew up in 2019, at least in the scene.
If the farmers would handle the manure of these cows and horses responsibly and only compost it themselves and then use the compost only for growing grass and it would be explicitely stated that this compost contains Aminopyralid - then it could work. (I am sceptical however about a substance that can only be broken down by soil bacteria over years, who knows what it does to the animal in the long run and to mild and meat).
And now they also use it for wheat, ....
It sure beats regenerative methods if one wants maximum short term gain, monocultures and does not care to change the mode of operation.
For the farmers it is a short term gain, no weeds and nothing that is harmful for cows (or horses) can grow (because of the big ag methods and maybe climate change some poisonous weeds have become more wide spread, and their answer is the over kill - screw organic farmers / homesteaders.
Of course that effect of the herbicide will not last long, I am sure in 10 years the weeds have evolved, then they will either have to increase the dose or use an even more extreme herbicide.
A few veggies can tolerate it, but not too many, and not even all flowers. One can grow grasses like rye, barley or corn and I think cabbages etc also tolerate it (at least they have medium yield). But most hobby gardeners or homesteaders want veggies, strawberries etc. Not wheat or rye.
It does not break down through digestion or composting - not even hot composting. Only through contact with soil bacteria and only after a few years, in some cases in can last for 10 years. After ruining your garden for years of course if you were unaware of that danger.
I think it is only supposed to be used for cows fodder not horses - oh well. And muncipalities also use it to control what grows on their land.
I use course sand in the bottom half mixed with soil. It cost me 13 bucks a trucks load, enough to do 2 beds or a garden area. This does 2 things. Gives really good drainage and adds trace elements to the soil that it often lacks. I also line the wood inside with thick plastic to keep water from decaying the wood over time.
We are considering that as well. We think we are going to try a raised bed with wicking using course sand as the wicking medium. The soil is from a local guy who is much cheaper than Home Depot or Lowe’s. All the best from north Texas.
I think the plastic will keep the wood sides from breathing and reduce the life of the boards. I find bare pine 2 x lumber lasts about 6 years bare. I have not done the plastic but heard from others who have that it decreases the life of the wood. Not sure either way, but consider it questionable.
Damn thanks you guys for all the knowledge and thank you Gardner Scott... I'm retired and I don't crochet I don't knit I don't sew but I love being outside and love to grow things
From seeds that I harvest out of my food❤ I love these raised beds because it's really hard for me to get down on my knees on the ground and stay down there all day moving around so thank you so much for this can you please tell me what those cement things are called in the corners that you said you got for $4? I liked Shared and subscribed🎉😂❤
I had huge planters at each corner of our in ground pool. Over in the shade of a mulberry tree I placed our rabbit hutch and run up on cement blocks. Every fall I would rake out that rabbit poo and add it to the planters. It composted down all winter and in summer when I added the annuals..... Huge, beautiful flowers every year.
Yeah, rabbit manufacture awesome fertilizer, & it doesn't burn the roots if it's too fresh!
I agree and kind of practice this approach. Burying compostables in soil is a great way to attract and feed earthworms and build up healthy garden soil. Though, it's wise to be mindful of which things release NPK as they break down, and which ones eat up NPK in the soil. (Ex: too much wood can initially eat up too much nitrogen, and release it much later, but the right amount Is beneficial to soil composition and aeration). I just spent a day slogging in muddy clay that wouldnt drain from a 4'x4' terraced bed, despite adding several 5 gal. buckets of compost. I finally alleviated my colorado clay/drainage issue in my veggie garden by mixing in my bolted spinach pieces, grass leaves, torn up news paper, dead branches and torn egg crates with the soil. Then, tested again with water and FINALLY had fluffy soil that drained easily!🥳 it's definitely good advice to use your readily available organic matter and amend it with preexisting soil to save $, and I'd add to use cover crops that restore nutrients and build up soil too. Otherwise, I have always bought in bulk from a local dirt yard after inspecting their soil blends & composts in person. After a while, with this "free soil" approach, you'll have to remove fertile fluffy soil from over flowing garden beds, and that will be a good problem to have for sustainable gardening practices. :)
One source of compostables is the yard waste your neighbors put out on the street for collection. I get out before the truck takes them away and put them in the bottom of my bed before adding soil and compost. All free!
I have a buddy who has 3 thoroughbred horses. He composts the manure from his barn in some large compost bins and it comes out soooo nice. Black, rich, organic material. I get a trailer load or two every year to add to my garden and the one raised bed that I have. I built the raised bed with some old porch posts that I had replaced with Aluminum and filled the bottom with very old dry rotted fire wood and some of that compost. Then added some bulk mix that I had purchased. Worked great the first year and each year I just add some compost and turn it over with a shovel. Great video! Keep on keepin on.
The best advice anyone has given me regarding filling my garden bed!
Wow, you are brilliant at explaining your point. I’ve heard most of it before, but now I “get it” thankyou
Thank you. I'm glad it was helpful.
There's nothing better than saving money and growing food. #TFS
Thank you , enjoy and always learn something from your videos. Been gardening a long time ,but that why I love it , you never stop learning something new or different!
Wow this was Gold I can’t wait to get started on my garden beds, i will definitely follow you to learn more. Thx
This is a very interesting way to fill garden beds! I love it!! I mixed my own soil together with four different kinds of soil. And yes it’s expensive! But you gave me some wonderful ideas to use in my raised beds and pots! Thank you so much!
Millie Jessop can you please share what four different kind of souls you use? I just finished my raised bed and now it is time to fill it with soil.
Gardener Scott. All I can say is thank you
Great information and excellent presentation. We are putting in our first set of 4x8 raised beds at our new home. Prior we had always planted directly in the ground as we had ideal soil conditions and plenty of space to use machinery to prep and turnover the soil. Our new home has fair soil at best and serious gopher problems so we are going raised beds. I now have a great economical plan thanks to your video. Thank you for taking the time to make your videos
Really good breakdown there and reminding people what they can do when approaching gardening.
We've used truck loads for DIRT, and usually DIRT is what we get or it's mostly DIRT and that's what you need for the top, and then you can mix whatever stuff you want to add organic material and that's what I like to do and you don't get all that sinking and that DIRT is partially what holds the life while it eats that organic material. Then it's just a matter of mixing and doing a soil test to see if there's any amendments you need to have the right minerals the plants need.
Shalom! Gardener Scott, thank you so much for teaching us your gardening skills and expertise. Blessings!
Thank you.
So very interesting Knowing what to mix together. Thank you, Carol
I have found your video EXTREMELY useful and informative, I'm now a step closer to start gardening. Thank you so much.
Start with growing herbs or one pepper plant in pots,that’s what I do,it’s fun. I’m about to venture in the raised bed garden myself.Wish me luck.😉
Thank you for the soil building info. I was headed toward the $150.00 for a single level bed. I keep compost going so I will add some of that to my weekly grass cuttings, weeds I collect daily and even the veggie scraps I add daily. I am so glad to have found your great channel.
Your own compost is a great option.
And guess who's filling raised garden beds that I just built? Perfect timing young man thank you. I truly enjoyed your presentation. Bless you
Thank you!
Excellent! Thank you for getting to the very basics of this- I wish all manuals were written like this.
Thanks so much for this! I’m so happy I found you before filling my garden beds!
I love that you're in Colorado, where I live. Different parts of the country have different zones. It's clay 'soil' here and amending it takes some dedication. I'll be watching more of your videos as the seasons progress. Thanks!
Thank you for the advice and insight! Trying to more self sufficient at my homestead.
Thanks Gardener Scott. This is the best explanation I've seen on how to fill my garden beds. Absolutely well done!
You’re an excellent teacher. I’m planning to expand my garden and I learned a lot from you
I love your tips, no one said gardening was easy, that’s why everyone doesn’t do it💐🌸🌼🌷🍄
I pick up horse manure from my neighbor and make my own compost for my garden
I am using horse manure too! My best friend gave me two buckets!!!
I live on the outskirts of the DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) metroplex and am lucky to still have some farms and stables nearby. I am picking up horse manure mixed with straws that has been decomposing over time and add them to start my first raised beds. Given I am late to the party (it's May already?), I am using mainly horse manure mixed with my in-ground garden soil to fill the bed(s). I am hoping to start a compost pile too. From what I have calculated for the amount I will need for next year, I have started to collect all the flyers that the lawn services folks dorp off at my door and ask them if I can take their grass clippings and other organic materials off of their hands. Let's see...
It is the hardest thing I have ever done. I want to quit everyday. Now that I have discovered Gardener Scott I am wondering if I need to scrap it all. I have made mistakes I cannot undo. ugh
Andy A. Nature is very forgiving, can change or adjust anything, anytime and move on!
I can't figure out how to compost horse manure correctly... I have horses and our soil is clay. Horrible to plant in, so raised beds have to be the way... But I've got a black thumb and can't even figure out composting...
Great food for thought. I’m on the verge of starting a raised bed. Thanks.
Perfect I cut a load of branches off of my bay tree and hadn’t got round to bagging them. Randomly came to me to see if I could use them to fill out my last bed. Definitely worth playing about with
Love the garden beds you made. They really look great👍 Thanks for the ideas. Good info.
I love the filling the bottom of the beds with branches. I have so many guava branches from my trees and they're full of minerals. Great advice.
Thanks.
Thank you! That was very informative. I've just started gardening and was a bit discouraged by how much one bed alone can cost. I live in an urban area where I don't trust the soil. Now I know I'll need to store up more patience to build good soil before I even start planting seeds.
Glad to help. Good soil is the key and it can take a long time to get it perfect, but that's part of the fun to being a gardener... having patience and creating a place plants love.
Nothing wrong with starting your own worm farm either, helping your neighbours come spring and fall and their weekly lawn mowing sessions, gathering all those small bits of pebbles, storing them somewhere, maybe gradually collecting the rock dust as they happen to collide in their container, snag a bag of chicken grit, do the same, add some of THAT dust to your worm farm so the worms enrich their own castings..seeing as THEY have even fewer teeth than chickens!😉
I've gone to container planting! Enriched with worms! For exactly those reasons. Humans have polluted the very earth we ALL rely upon! And even the WATER isn't safe!
Has to be one of the most important videos I've watched on starting my own garden. Thank you.
Great suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to produce and share your video!
You sir, have just made one of the most informative videos on raised bed gardening... very detailed... I heartedly Thank You for this... it makes so much sense to the would be home gardener who are not truly informed on what they need...
Thank you.
I got a lot out of it too
@@GardenerScott I think it was very informative as well I didn't feel like it was a waste of my time
@@mr.greenjeans8323 Thanks.
Very informative shining new lights
This makes me indescribably happy
My Ex-Wife used to go to all places that served coffee and get their coffee grounds for free. Worms grow and mate like crazy and she ended up with thousands of worms in her raised beds which create holes for better drainage in the soils. So use lots of card boxes and coffee grounds for fantastic gardens! And chicken manure.
That's a great idea for coffee grounds... heard they were good, but I only drink instant!
Coffee grounds, egg shells (well rinsed & crushed) & horse manure = happy garden! Marigolds at edges helps repel some insects, too. I would also place a 3" base of smoothed stone for drainage!
@@mdee860 I have been told by several people that it is not even necessary to rinse and crush the egg shells!
@@mdee860 no need to rinse your shells.
@@allenmartin7193 - yes, but best to have lowest level of larger stone, like the polished Goose egg type. If you use all same size & smaller stones, they can compact, then mix with the dirt & rain & that will make for bad drainage & root rot. The larger stones help prevent that.
A great video! I have done the same things for years. I have even used cut up logs that had started decomposing. This material already has the microbes that speed up the breakdown.
Hey! This was absolutely great!!! Thank you so much. As a complete noob trying to put a garden in ASAP, this was very very helpful. Thank you!!
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful.
I learned so much from your story. Thank you. I thought I should start the box in spring but you corrected that notion.
Thank you for your advice on filling the beds with stuff we already have.
I built 2 4x6 by 22ft tall beds this year. Went to my local nursery for a a pickup truck load for $55. Mix of forest mulch and soil. Yep, shovel work, but much easier from standing on the bed of my truck rather than a wheelbarrow. And a lot of $$$ saved. Next year, I'm adding two 4x8 x 2ft tall beds.
Dude your bed is 22’ tall 😮😮😮 😉
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, much appreciated!
Great video! Your audio is so clear and precise, the camera remains still, and your knowledge is free-flowing! Thank you, thank you! All I get from my gardening friends is advice on how I should convert from ground to beds. Yadda...yadda...yadda, everyone thinks beds are so great because they are getting older and say it is less work, especially on aging backs. Not one of them ever mentioned the cons of this method. Now I will be putting some very serious thought, planning, and financial calculating into action before I ever head in this direction. I appreciate having my eyes opened beforehand!
Thanks, Susan. Glad to help.
This is the best video I have seen on TH-cam about raised bed filling. You are exactly right. We should used earth soil instead of bagged so called garden soil. Make a blend yourself.
I'm in a cold climate too.... I'm in Chicago and I like everything you've shown me so far....I will emplement everything I was shown
Hi, Mike from UK. I'm just about to make my first raised bed and found your video a great help with what to put into it. Thankyou.
You can tell that “garden soil” really ticks him off! I love his passion!
This is really great information about soil Thank you for sharing. I never understood why the soil from the earth and the soil sold is garden bags was so much different. But the way you explained it makes so much sense and also makes me think about how grocery store food is so much different from naturally grown garden food.
Sir, you just saved me a BUNCH of money! I was so disappointed when I calculated how much it was going to cost me to fill my raised bed but now I have some hope!
I think we’ve all found the Bob Ross of gardening.
Alexandria Tucker as a Bob Ross disciple and a Gardener I approve this comment. 👍
Happy little twigs and branches...😂
He kind of looks like John Stewart too!
Better than Bob -- this gent's got oompf!
hahaha, right on!
Filling my beds with sticks and leaves and coffee grounds and food scraps is exactly what I'm doing right now!! So neat that you are suggesting it! ♥️♥️♥️
Good for you, Kathy. 👍
I am creating a veggie garden for my Auntie's birthday. I look forward to using several of your techniques. Thank you.
Hi Scott.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video, as I use a very similar method (I'm all about freedom and efficiency) and I'd just like to add a little tip for those half filling with organic material.
If you apply a temporary gardening edge in the top of your raised beds, you can over fill in anticipation of the decomposition drop.
Sincerely,
Adrian
Thanks. That's a good tip.
That was brilliant, so easy to understand, for a learner gardner, thank you Margaret
Thank you for this wisdom! I'll be filling one this weekend.
Thanks for this video. I am just getting interested in gardening, and this information really helped clear some questions in my head. Looking forward to watching more from you.
I roll cardboard to fill the bottom 2-4 inches of planters. Makes them lighter and it will compost and sink over time, allowing you to add some fresh mulch and good soil. Same idea as putting branches at the bottom of a raised bed, with the bonus of making planter buckets lighter and drain better.
P.S. 8x4 feet just reminds me I have a cord of wood to stack... Thanks Scott >:I
Card board is great idea! I get all these deliveries which I can now recycle them myself
Exactly
What are planters
@@KeiKreatrix It's the pot or box you put your soil in to grow plants...
@@IndigenousIndianLady65 thank you I was over complicating it😂💓
Thanks Scott. Very informative. It's good to hear the process broken down... Just like good compost :)
Hi me and my husband really find your channel so helpful. We would like to thank you for sharing your practical tips on how to save money on soil. We live in a countryside and around us here are trees,and grasses. After watching your video we rushed to rescue those tree branches and cut grasses from the bonfire 😁.Kind regards from England.
This was the exact video I was looking for. Perfectly explained. Thank you.
Awesome❣️ I’ve learned a lot. And I’ll be tuned in for your advice. Thank you.❤️💯