Low Budget Terraced Garden Build
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- I have a spot near my garden the gets excellent sun - but it's on the the side of a rocky hill with useless soil. In this video I show a way to make a terraced garden on a slope using basic tools and materials.
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I related to each point you made. No tractor, no mule, work all done with hand tools, small pick is gold, body not a hundred. Good work amigo, keep on keeping on!
Right on
Thankyou for keeping it real for us real folk who don't have tractor dollars!! I do a lot of dragging and carrying and barrowing. It's great for the body, and coming up with inventive ways to move stuff is great for the brain!
Well said!
Omg! This man reminds me sooo much of myself by utilizing his surroundings for his landscaping designs and physically hauling his material himself while using his hands as tools for creating and building his gardening ideas. He even took the words right out of my mouth when he stated that tractors aren't cheap! Lol
I just turned of f a video that had several pieces of machinery. Thank you for showing the rest of us.
Cool, thanks
For the first time, I can clearly visualize the concept. Thank you.
Glad it helped!
Very interesting and informative. Your video has inspired me to create a terraced garden even at my age 66. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Wonderful!
This video was very relatable which I really appreciate. Theres a lot of use who cant afford help. What I appreciate is the fact that you got the job done yourself with the basic tools available to us all . 💙🔥
I really appreciate this video! Love the attention to accessibility. This will be my first time creating a terraced garden, so I appreciate how you broke down each step and also gave tips along the way!
Glad it was helpful! Hope your works out great :)
Wow, how useful and practical. I've got a bare slope and I want to build terraces and you showed me all the steps, including moving logs, which has been my biggest problem.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for offering ways to get it done without a workshop, a slew of heavy tools, and yard movers.
You bet
Hats off to your will power and hard work! castle did not built in a day
Yes, thanks
I remember your story about the crowbar. Two and a half weeks ago I dropped a pitchfork on my left foot been to the emergency room three times it's finally healing up. This year I pulled sciatic nerve left leg and drop the Pitchfork left leg I will never stop gardening.
sciatic nerve probs are awful man sorry to hear that
This was so relaxing to watch and listen to....in a few years that hill will look like the terraced gardens of Peru !
Yes! That’s what I imagined also.
I’d like to set up a design for about a half acre in the same way.
I wanted to graze livestock on the area or grow fodder though instead of an intensive garden
This is what I admire so much. Good old Nova Scotia ingenuity. You don't have a tool, can't afford to buy that tool, you make it yourself with what you have, or what you find for free. Thanks for the video Greg, I'm keeping this lesson in my brain library for future use! :)
Thank you very much!
This is the right video i was looking for!!! You are practical and real in your opinion to find own intiative and creative Ideas to make gardening on slopes effective and productive using simple methods and techniques without high powered machineries but only manpower. My farmland is slopy and i dont know how to make it useful. So i am very thankful that i found your Video. More or less i can take some ideas from your video now. I have lots of Bamboo plantations in the farm maybe i can use them to block instead of using woods. Thank you very much for sharing ;-) I am subscribing because i like your techniques! God Bless!
Thank you Kharmencita, I hope it works for you :)
That is a thing of great beauty. You done a power of work to get there, well done! Wish I had as much land as you, but I rent and only have my garden to work on. It's enough for me all the same. You strike me as a good man and it's great therapy to watch you hard at work. All the best from the far West reaches of Europe (that'll be Scotland).
Thanks Neil :)
New sub here; this is one of my favorite videos ever. Your are so very right on tractor comments.
Your simple, easy, cost-saving nature is oddly very relaxing to listen to. Also, the slight humor mixed in is a delight. 😊
Do you have a recommendation for the length of hookaroo?
Length should be roughly from armpit to palm
Well done!!! I like the method. I gave thumbs up and subscribed too! Keep it up!
Thanks for the sub!
Hello Greg! I Love your new terraced bed. I think it’s just all the natural materials you gather to make it. May it be very productive for you, thank you for sharing, much appreciated. 😉
I love the way you garden. You have encouraged me tremendously
This gives me great ideas to utilize some space on a hill i am not using!
Thank you again for another amazing and practically useful video. You really have a gift for empowering the average person. As a woman, that is so amazing and freeing. I don't need machinery or an engineering degree to be able to transform my land and take more control of my food supply.
I have so many areas on my land that are wonderful growing areas but, they are on hills. Like you, my opinion is to use it for space hogs and crops that I don't want in my main garden. And selfishly, I'd like to avoid having to mow those awful slopes!
I've been using logs since starting to watch your videos. I've been clearing and processing logs through the fall and winter, and am looking forward to test out my terracing skills.
Thanks again.
What a great way to keep busy during the winter! Good luck next spring and thanks for all the kind words :)
This video has been wonderfully helpful. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Really great tips and instruction. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. This is just what I needed for a steep hill that I want to make into a garden, outside of my dear proof fence.
Perfect!
Really feel ya on this one. I do enjoy some of the homestead YTers, and I can see some expenditure if it were an entire extended family undertaking IF you had the means to do so. I do wonder how someone can do all these things AND still have time to vlog it.
I'm always amazed at how many gifts are sent to them by subscribers. . Like I'm just getting by, and these people have high tunnels and tractors, and order stuff without a second thought. It's never occurred to me once that I should (or am in a position to) "help them out."
But I'm an average Joe cheapweed like you, who likes to grow stuff.
Thanks as always for the very enjoyable (and relatable) vids.
P.S. They may fall under your umbrella term of "fashion gardener/homesteader"
I think the gifts sent are generally sent from a place of gratitude for the information (and wholesome entertainment) they take the time to share and produce. And to be frank, I borrowed a friend's tractor to move manure to build beds. Saved me literally days and backbreaking work. I can see why people buy them now. I just cant justify the price yet.
I often wonder how sustainable their homesteads would be if they weren't getting youtube money, sponsorship money and patreon contributions. Could they actually live off their homesteads?
I would buy one if I needed it often - like on a weekly or even monthly basis - but if you need it once a year or less, it makes no sense to buy one. I apply that logic to just about everything - which is also why I am no longer a truck owner.I just rent one when I need on - and drive my crappy little cheap car
@@NS-pf2zc I get that, especially the part about wholesome entertainment!!
You can rent tractors or skid steers, too. Line up a whole lot of jobs that you need to do and rent for a weekend. Even share with a neighbor to cut the cost. You can get a lot done that way.
To me it's not that these homesteaders use tractors, it's that mainly they are quite new, along with new barns, new fences. New lumber right and left on everything. Which to me brings up the question, how much experience do they have about what they are talking about? How valuable is information from someone like that when it looks like they've just gotten going in that lifestyle. (Don't get me started on the mistakes that could be deadly in home canning that are out there) I take them with a grain of salt.
I really appreciate your videos, Greg and I can't wait to see how fast those terraces get built around the hill. :D
Excellent explanations. I think I can now terrace my slope.
You can do it!
Just a warning that hammering in stakes with the cover on your axe like that can split the cover quite quickly as it puts pressure from your boss against the seam. Great video, cheers
That cover is made from a bicycle tire. Pretty sure I could hammer stakes all day with it .
Excellent job. Persistence, patience, determination and focus on building a good bed. You forecast maybe 7 years of usage based on this but I think you'll get at least twice that if you keep topping it off with compost or fertilizer every year. Great job, and definitely an inspiration for me since I have a steep slope next door. I tackle one small spot or two per year and this makes me want to expand my parameters.
Thanks :) I said 7 yrs because that's how long I expect the logs to last. The bed will be perpetually mulched, so it will not need compost or fertilizer.
Thank you so much for making this video. You just made something that seemed overwhelming very accessible! Can't wait to do this to our hill.
You are so welcome!
Nice! "She didn't know when to stop gardening sometimes" could be my epitaph if I croak this year! ; ) And the fruit trees aren't in yet...
Death by too much gardening would be a great ending :)
I so enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing them.
Glad you like them!
Haha, that bit about your son had me cracking up! Constructive and creative way to impose a consequence for behavior. I have memories of that kind of consequence from my childhood!😂 Builds character!
So true!
Another great video! Appreciate how you do low cost, low tech. Cheap is a compliment in Nova Scotia!
Watching you from New Zealand Greg, we are deep in a rainy winter, so awesome watching you and building anticipation for my gully garden
This video is exactly what I was looking for, to fix up our slope behind the chicken run. We live in south western Nova Scotia and have 17 acres of woods and clay soil and rocks. And not rich. So your suggestions are very practical and now I can’t wait to get started
Glad it was helpful!
That is a thing of great beauty
You have a new friend friend.
Thanks and welcome
I totally agree l don’t own a tractor so l need to see the ‘caveman’ style so to speak. My whole back yard is a hill. 3/4 acre worth
Great video. Good explanation on use of tools, planning, and reflection.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the tutorial. Gonna keep this video in my favorites. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this much work in the backyard of the new place I'm renting, but definitely going to be handy whenever we can buy a house
Glad it was helpful!
Great watching someone doing heavy work. Much better than having to do it myself 😁😁😁😁
You got that right!
I was literally thinking I’d be smart to start a TH-cam channel on taking my small land into turning this into a great channel and journey using innovative and creative thinking and possibility for anyone to start something…thank you saved me the regretful online purchases of filming equipment much appreciated lol all seriousness great job on your work you’d be surprised what you can manifest with sweat👍👊
Thank you - that's high praise :)
This video was fun to watch. Lots of great safety tips.
Glad you enjoyed it!
steel toed boots would be very helpful during these kinds of builds. LOL
I suppose :)
As usual my friend great job....I can see you likely will not stop expanding your garden. I am reworking my grden bed layout this year and I calculate I can get another 200 square feet of garden area! Looking forward to ripping into that after the garden is harvestted and put to bed!
Garden on brother!
Mike 🇨🇦😁👍
Sounds great!
great video! It makes me think that it would be interesting if you did a video of your tool cache.
Thanks for the idea!
Great information, thank you for sharing.
I really like that set up...can see you doing more of that!
Boy I hope this is a big as it gets :)
@@maritimegardening4887 today you say that but if I was a gambling man I would say some day you will look at that hill and start digging without a thought. lol I know I keep saying no more and what do I do ,make a little more. Myself I like the idea of what you did....out of the way for that big plant !!
Nice expansion there. Like you, I'm always looking for open spaces to plant my sugar pumpkins
Exactly
Good stuff buddy!
Thanks!
Such a great video learnt so much
Glad it was helpful!
What state are you in? Your soil is nice and soft and easy to work with? I am in the Southwest and our soil is hard as cement (almost) and it's hard to dig holes so much so it's discouraging. If we get heavy rain then that is the time to dig because it's mud and easy to dig.
LOL, we are in good company because I also have a broken toe. Kicked something hard barefoot by accident. Right foot small toe.
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada. Some parts of the province have good soil, but where I live it's not really known for its good soil. It's all granite and clay mostly.
You can stop the pegs from shredding by taking a knife to the edge that you hit. Just round the edge a bit.
That's called "chamfering"and it's a good idea - but it won't make a difference if you are pounding green wood with an axe.
I've seen dogs carry more than that. I wouldn't use them for logging all day but they could handle a couple logs like that in a pinch
Are you saying that everyone should own a dog to help them build gardens out of logs?
Im saying dogs could also move logs. There's pitbulls pulling sleds in competitions with 10,000 plus pounds stacked on. One of those logs would be nothing.
Way to keep the expense down. Great video as always. Adding three beds this summer and doing the rustic log construction because they're free works for me. Will you incorporate that mulch into the soil, or just keep adding mulch as you go?
I just keep adding mulch as I go
I have some beds to build this fall Might just try the logs, we have a bunch too lol. I may hire a guy down the road & his tractor lol I can not move a log on my own 👵 Nice job 👍
Go for it!
Thank you
theres a guy thats on face book the weedy gardenthat makes soil bacteria adding to his compost its ready in 21 days he is also on u tube only i at the moment lives in aussie he is a photographer and cant move around at the moment i enjoy watching you however you are inclined to put yourself down i live in nz keep up the good work
I live in NZ too! Off grid in the mountains just north of Kaikoura 😁
Question: Could you use rebar, instead of making the wooden pegs? I have some dead trees on my very sloped property, but don't think anything is the right size to be a peg and rebar seems cheap enough that I might be able to get that in bulk without breaking the bank.
Absolutely
I’d like to do this on about a half acre of slope. Except I wanna plant bamboo on the terraced levels. And turn out my goats on it a few times a week for grazing
Good idea
@@maritimegardening4887 wonder if the bamboo would break through/break down the terrace “wall” though. Since they’re such aggressive growers. Guess it’s time to find out
Hey Greg, do u ever do anything with cover crops? If not why? And if so why?
Also what if i wanted to turn what u call ur standing area into another row would that work. I have a good bit of corn and I think doing smaller rows would be better than one big row. I’m opened to ideas. It’s basically a 20 x 40 area and it’s kinda divided into sections like 4 rows of corn 4 rows of tomato and pepper. Then the right side is squash cucumber zucinni and oakra. When I was hilling my corn for the first time I kinda made little terris rows bc I built up the soil around the corn and made idk what to call it ? Gullies? Basically a way to have water run. But it doesn’t work to well bc the running water washes away the high parts and after a rain I gotta go back a rebuild it up
if you use the standing area as a garden, where will you stand? Regarding your hill problem - don't hill the rows - I don't hill anything :)
Why not just put leaves, pine needles or wood chips down on your path? Shoot even straw would keep weeds away. Or clover? Seed clover in. Anything will work really, shoot stones would work 4 a walking path Anything but mud
10:59 alternatively, learn the timber hitch knot
super nice video! Making some back breaking parts look easy lol, but amazing overall
Thanks! 👍
nice
I’m dealing with erosion right now. My issue is I already have veggies planted so I can only fill in with soil as the garden gets bigger.
wow
Nice video 😊
Thanks for the visit
Ataboy!
How is the new Ruth Stout potato patch coming along?
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my place is same as you
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Spruce is what they use for airplanes.
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