Instant Raised Bed Garden Build for $60 - Anyone Can Make a Raised Bed Using This Hack
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The fact that you are even sharing this cost effective metal bed when you have more expensive ones is so cool. We love how you over and over again demonstrate by your actions what you tell people is your goal for us. God bless you.
Yes!
I wanted to grow food on my front porch so I got some 17 gallon laundry tubs, the plastic ones with the rope handles, and they’re working great.
I did that once, but the plastic was not UV-stable and-though it took a year or two-the container began to fragment. Maybe you can do something to counteract the UV.
@@bdwon this is the third year and they’ve only cracked when I tried to move them, so I’m crossing my fingers they last a couple more years.
@@bdwon the 17.5 gallon buckets sold at farm stores are both food safe and seem to be UV stable. We have had ours for 4 years now.
@@bdwontry half barrel pond liners. I use for little ponds and big planters and they take full Tx sun for over 10 yrs.
You’re always showing waves to save money like sharing where to buy this raised bed. You say all the time that you want everybody to be growing their own food. Thank you again for educating us.
2024 is your year to grow food at home!
I have something similar, but the cost was a lot cheaper-feed barrel. I cut a feed barrel in half. The top is alread open, so an easy raised bed. With the bottom, you have a choice, either cut it out and have a raised bed, or drill holes for drainage, and us it as a container. Either way works. I took the easy way out, and drilled holes. I use them for growing peas, lettuce, and late season Roma tomatoes. There are plenty of other options too.
what did you cut it with?
@@lifeisartTV There are many tools that can be used to cut the barrels, a hamd saw, cut off wheel, recipicating saw, skill saw, basically anything that can be used to cut wood.
My brother and I started with four fire rings in 2020. We added two more in 2021. We grow a ton of food in those six rings.
Thanks for sharing great information! We've been successfully using fire rings for 4 years. This year we have sweet potatoes and sun chokes and turmeric and ginger in them. In the past, we have grown in the fire rings white potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, onions, carrots, determinate tomatoes, brassacas, greens all intermingled with herbs.
You being you,honest!
I have the luxury of working at a culvert manufacturing plant and had several drop pieces as raised beds that I got totally free.
Look up if you live near by a corrugated metal pipe (CMP) plant, I know we sell by the foot, they might be willing to sell you the drops at a lower rate even
$0.88/black (not blue) cloth shopping bags, placed in milk crates (on loan from the dairy 🙂) may be *the hackiest raised bed.*
I’ve done it!
Pickle buckets, too. Heck! Even a cardboard box works
These fire rings work great- and you can pull it up and use it for a ... fire ring at the end of the season. 😆
Fantastic idea!
Thank you, Luke. 😊
Thanks for the idea! Gonna do it
Awesome idea. ❤
Genius idea
I've got 3 of them❤❤ bought mine pre covid they were $30 a piece.
I've got 3 small oval ones!!! They work pretty good
I actually found that adding vermiculite is very important to make sure the soil doesn't go hydrophobic. If you make sure to water then you don't need it. But fixing hydrophobic soil is a huge pain and this helps prevent it.
You use the same peat moss I always recommend! I had no idea!! Great video!
Those are about $100 here near Denver, but still put 3 in last year for strawberries and rhubarb... both are doing great!
I got a nice raised bed on sale on Amazon for $40.00 (2'x4')..Very happy with this bed!
I got one too for $35 USD, but it’s only 12” deep and that’s fine. Growing peppers in my front lawn with it because it’s really sunny there. Not worried about people stealing them, because I’m doing shishito, jalapeño, and hot wax. They produce so many small peppers.
I salvage foam coolers from curbs and am using them as a container garden. They help to keep the roots cool in the hot, Florida sun. And they are free.
I have six of them.😁
Luke, great idea. But what vegetables need soil that deep? Trees maybe trees like figs that could produce a ton of fruit.
How much did the soil to fill that cost? Seems like bad ROI. My homemade wooden beds are 8 '' to 12" deep and I can grow anything I want. Thanks!
Was thinking about watering fruit trees in there Garden beds-containers😊
I just started a bed of strawberries in one of these that I had laying around from a fire pit I removed last year. I'll probably add a few more.
Can't find an 18" galvanized fire ring anywhere. Every listing I see is for 12 inches... what hardware stores are around you???
I love fire rings so easy no assembly and keeps the bunny's off my plants
cute wabbits never suspect bare traps. 🙂
I'd cut the ring in half height wise and make 2. 18 inches per ring is more than enough depth for almost any root system in a garden so you could double the output on your $60.
Would there be any issues putting gopher mesh under a raised bed?
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Thanks Luck! Always enjoy your tips and hacks 🥰
Thank you!!!
I've been wondering if I could put small diameter stick and twigs in the bottom 2 or 3 inches to help cut back on the cost of filling the bed
sure can
lol dude sleeping in the car or is it a mannequin
How much dolomite lime did you use. Thanks
Love the concept & would love to grow asparagus. I live in the southern part of Ohio (somewhere between zone 5 & 6). I am wondering if the roots will winter over in this type of raised bed or will it get too cold? I have the same concern with strawberries.
I'm in northern Ohio. If you have one that's at least a foot deep they'll survive. As an extra precaution you can mulch with straw or leaves or whatever before winter. Good luck!
I have a question, I want to grow vegetables in a wooden elevated (not touching the ground) raised garden bed.
I'm going to buy some soil with Worm Castings, Peat moss and Mushroom compost.
Do I need to use perlite or some other form of drainage product on it, or is the main soil fine?
Knew it. Fire ring. ACE Hardware is where I get mine and as a firepit. Got straw cheap a third the price as it was rotting and they couldn't sell it for animals so helped fill new raised beds.
Doing this. How many tomato plants would be recommended, going to plant Roma's and herbs.
Will this help keep fuzzy pests out?
I checked at the Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace Hardware, Harbor Freight and none of them had the tall fire ring. Where did you get the one you showed in video?
Where do you find one that tall?
3 zucchini plants feed most of the borers in my yard. I miss it so much! This is my second year going without it growing in my garden.
I hear ya! The borers get me EVERY time. One year I lost 18 plants within the 1st week they started producing. I only got one single zucchini out of the whole crop. Last year I finally took a year off to see if I could starve them to death, lol. Only planted one zucchini this year just to see…so far so good (knock on wood).
I can’t find fire rings 18” deep! Locally they all seem to be around 12”.
The same, and they are more expensive where I'm located for 12".
Would this be a good way to grow an Asparagus bed?
I converted my fire ring into a raised bed and have onions in there.
Is it true that if you use fertilizer in metal containers that the chemicals can react to the metal and combust/cause a fire? Also, is it safe to grow food in metal?
Do you highly encourage us to put a bed a foot from someone's exhaust pipe? The good tips would have been nice to have seen in that green field, back from the parking lot, there's a reason all those other beds were originally placed further away
Put sticks,dead leavea and small cut logs on the bottom. It will hold moisture. You dont need to put all dirt in them. Most roots dont go that deep.
That was was my first thought as well. I have a 15" raised bed that's hugelkultur. Love it!
Love this idea. My one zucchini plant would take that over, no way room for three. Great for other things. I worder if there's a way to stack. My father n law wants a garden but can't bend over.
Maybe stakes could be used somehow to hold them in place?
this appears about 2' high, but all I can find online are 1' high fire rings.
The next suggested video is 3 reasons why not to buy metal beds. Lol
How much lime to add?
Depends on the soil. I used about 1/2 cup or so.
@@MIgardener thank you Luke! 🥰
Because the bed is metal, couldn't one drill a few small holes around the side of the unit? Thanks for this...I'm headed to our hardware store!
Maybe I missed it but what are these beds and where to find them please?
It's a 36" Fire Pit Ring. If your only Home Centers are Lowe's/Home Depot they're super expensive. You can find them cheap at more rural hardware stores though.
@@garretthaney9134 Tractor Supply Company is also a good place to pick these up.
@@garretthaney9134 ah. Thanks Garrett
Raised beds are all the craze, but you don't have to grow in raised beds. If you have decent soil, just plant in the ground,
To save you from the math! 16 x 7 = 112
Thanks!
Please let us know if you are safe from the man sitting right behind you in a car wearing sunglasses and not moving at all!
They will rust if you use them as a fire ring. Heat is evil. 😂
Saying a boat load would be inaccurate & false advertising. I guess depends on the boat but yeah that's a tiny boat lol
Haha tuche
Have tried to grow artichokes three years in a row. They just won’t grow for me. Boo hoo.
Nooooo!?! We just bought $300 worth of raised bed.
Raised beds are a waste of time and money. They're completely unnecessary.
I need raised beds. A few summers my garden area flooded due to freak rains. I couldnt plant one year. I have a high water table.
They scraped the top soil off and took it away when they built our home. The dirt here is hard clay I can’t dig through it. Our yard slanted so no till would just run off, also I don’t have 10 years to improve the soil here so yeah, raised beds are a good idea for us.
I have Johnson grass and grow 9 different mint varieties. That's 2 very good reasons for raised beds. 😉
@@Martipenny I keep a trio of breeding rabbits for a source of meat and manure for the garden. Whenever I start a new garden, I usually have topsoil trucked in from a local landscaper, which I mix with manure from the rabbit hutch. At my previous house, I dealt with flooding in the low corner of my back yard every spring. The upside to the flooding is that I always got a bumper crop of wild chives sprouting in the lawn after the flood water dried up.
We have Satan's pets giant gophers so containers and beds with protected bottoms are an absolute must