RAISED BEDS, COMPOST AND SAWDUST
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- OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY:Doug and Stacy hand shovel 20 yards of OMRI raised bed compost and get their raised beds off and running for 2016.
We also go on a sawdust run for our yearly supply for our composting toilet and other uses around the homestead.
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Some constructive criticism for you Doug, I would have filled the bottom of the beds with about 2 inches of gravel for better drainage since they are a bit taller, just an idea for the next time. Still very cool
My son and his nine children put sawdust into their garden soil this year and the abundance of the yield was impressive! God is good!
we are going to a raised bed garden ; our backs have had it with ground gardens. Thank you from two old folks from northern Ontario Canada. Love you guys
have you heard of Hugulkultre? You can pile it as high as you want and be gardening standing up. And you can do it for free if you are smart
Doug you are like the Dad l never had to teach about building and gardening!! thank you so much.🌹
☺ that means a lot because I had no dad either 👍
OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY God bless you both. I am so inspired now! Going to make these raised garden beds asap. Winter here in Australia so good time to build some things in prep for spring!
In Connecticut I haven't seen many moles or shews that can't past through chicken wire. I've found it best using 1/2" rolled welded galv wire fencing.
It's Awesome to see the beginnings of your food forest exciting time. 💗 Doug & Stacy 💗
I love sawdust. We use it for our composting toilet, when camping, in the chicken coop and run, and in washer drums, I use as raised beds, in the garden. It is even great to use as a filler, in a really big planter. Much lighter to move than dirt, and it will eventually break down.
I like watching the older videos of where you were and where you are today in 2020
That is so awesome, that you would be willing to help people out like that. You are such a hard worker. A rare thing in today. Great video
Shelley Kienel
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Thank you Doug and Stacey, it’s Chad the Oak Log Home Guy. You have inspired my wife and I to grow into yr raised bed gardens. The plants are looking great already in our beds and it has been fun.
I love watching you build things. I learn so much. thank you for sharing what you do. god bless
My back hurts just watching you labor with the shovel. You're a beast, doing the work of two men. Respect!!
My dad used to tell me I did the work of two men ........... Laurel and Hardy!
Love that idea, Food, Forest & Park... what the world needs now !
Okkkaayyy... I was just talking about the dang moles and field mice... I'm thinking that when the season is over we are gonna have to redo my raised beds! Chicken wire!! So smart and the board across to stop the blowout!! Love and you learn!! 😊👍 At least we can laugh at our boo boos!! Thank you guys!!! And just shared this LoL for the hunny do list!!
Love the food forest concept Doug. I am slowly working to do the same thing in my yard. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks. Traveled back in time to watch this one.
It all makes sense now....Thanks for filling in the gaps for me....Hard work but totally worth it!!
Yep, my husband already talked to the sawmill near us. Yay for FREE!!
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This was the first video of yours I watched when I started planning for raised beds in March and now mine are built, one filled with Blueberries, Cranberries, a Blackberry and Elderberries. The second one now filled almost with summer veggies and herbs :-) YOu inspired me and now I am growing my own food, cannot wait to start harvesting and fermenting my own produce. Like you I also had a hick-up with my compost soil, I paid for and they never delivered, some sort of family crisis and in the end I got compost soil from another supplier and trying to get my money back from the initial supplier
Awesome you will have a fantastic garden when it's all done. Love the idea. Great video. Thanks God bless.
The raised beds look great. Everything is going to be beautiful when you're done! 😀
We do the Mittleider Garden Method with our garden. Some of our beds the growing medium is nothing but sand and sawdust (just top off the sawdust every year, never have to add more sand). Other beds are in the native soil that we amended with peat moss, sand (very heavy clay soil here) and rabbit manure with sawdust in it also. We spend less than 15 min a week weeding all beds (3 - 3'x30', 4 - 4'x8' and 1 - 18"x30' = this one is our tomato bed with a T-frame for growing vertical and we plant the tomato plants every 9"). We fertilize once a week and only need to water for 2 minutes or less (depending on bed size) each morning per bed. We have tripled our harvest from previous years after trying square foot gardening and traditional gardening. I put the rabbit manure directly on our raspberry plants all winter and out of 4 bushes we get nearly 3 gallons of berries every year. Also add the rabbit gold to the strawberries after they have produced their fruit in the summer through fall and we get bumper crop the next year. From 40 plants we get around a 5 gallon bucket worth that is turned into jelly, sliced with sugar added (ice cream topping) and frozen or just sliced and frozen for deserts.
love the music in the background and I saw in a different video about the sawdust keeping the ice till next winter but wasn't sure on how effective it was
Really cool stuff! This is a great video. I did my raised beds a very similar way, only one cut in the lumber to make a rectangle and have no lumber waste. We don't have nearly the room you do, so everything is closer together but still leaving room to get a wheelbarrow between the beds. Another difference is that our "soil" is a geologic formation so we have no problem with burrowing pests. But roots from the neighbors yards grow into the boxes, so I use weed cloth at the bottom instead of chicken wire to slow the root growth down a bit. So keep your situation in mind when you set your boxes up.
Can't wait to see all the gardens and the greenhouse develop!
We're going to do raised beds next year, so this is great information and much appreciated 😊
Thanks Doug. Wow your shoulders must get really sore. Ever think of building a steam/sauna based on the older Nordic modals? Hot rocks, water and a closed room? Just another random thought after seeing you using that shovel all day. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Great information, I'm getting a little older, so I'm getting away from the Edan style garden. This give me more to think about as i get ready for planning season.
Interesting info on sawdust🌲🌲😊
Great job Doug!! I am very impressed, you have come a long ways from the person you were years ago!!
It's so neat looking at the before after seeing how well it did this year!
Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely love your videos. I have learned a lot even got my husband watching your videos. thank you
Thanks for sharing from Amish Country.....
Thank you for the sawdust information! Love these daily "how to" videos that show real life on the homestead! Thanks Doug! God bless!
***** You're doing a great job!
Awesome!💜looks great!
Doug, you need to look into the practice of hugulculture. Better for your garden and you save lots of money on commercial filling for your beds. This is for anyone considering raised beds.
We live in a somewhat isolated rural part of Colorado so even if we could find cedar lumber it would be very expensive. We are taking out the old corrals on our small homestead, part of an original dust bowl homestead, and a lot of the boards that were used actually appear to be still good and made of cedar so we are re-purposing them. We are in our first year of using the Back to Eden garden method hoping this will help us with less water use, as well as many other wonderful things about this method. Shalom!
oooh, I'm so showing hubby this video.
Thank you for sharing
Love to you both Doug and Stacy🙂💓👍
Love these ideas .
Do you have an operators license for that 2 armed backhoe? LOL, great job man!
I never had problems with moles until recently. I will start adding the chicken wire in the bottom of the beds to prevent any future problems.
love your vid....great job on your garden!
Great video, Doug! I love the raised beds and will be showing Aaron. LOL We are looking to switch from "traditional" gardening to raised beds since we're not as young as we used to be.
+Double "B" Homestead Well filling those beds with dirt isn't for the young either. Or the small. It would take me a month of Sundays to get all those filled with dirt. lol
LOL My back was hurting just watching the little bit of shoveling that you had videoed! LOL Hopefully you got the tractor repaired to do the rest!
Doug i cant wait to watch these beds full o' food. Great update thanks, now i know what F F P stands for lol Love u guys.
I like it that your homestead is wide open and flat. I am challenged by the mountainous nature of the contours of my land. Very difficult to plan my layout with. I'm so jealous.
Pine Meadows Hobby Farm A Modern Homestead your lucky to have contours. Might you check out Permacuture techniques and how to do swalls (spelling?) how to keep and store water and planting below and bwhind the mounds also hugeulculture raised mounds with trunks and wood and soil/ aged compost on top and plant right into that. Straw, wood chips, mulch...Back to Eden gardening ;) You can do it !
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BEAUTIFUL! THANK YOU R MAKING THIS SO SIMPLY SIMPLE! 💙🌷💙
Awesome!! I'm excited to see it all
I noticed you stick you tongue out the side of your mouth when shoveling.... I do the same thing!!!! hahaha. Love your videos.
2nd video of yours I watched in 20 minutes. Nice job. You just Got another subscriber. Time to binge watch your others!
+Jeff Purcell thanks Jeff!!
Built 2 raised beds love ‘em!!!
Great information, my wife loves our raised beds.
I am going to enjoy watching you build this and the process ....Best wishes :)
Come now Doug, load that shovel:)) If the 'organic dirt' doesn't have rock dust, you'll need to add it and better while you're filling the beds than after. Rock dust from glacier activity.
Great idea, I live in a logging community so I sure I can find some sawdust.
The beds look great 👍
as always you did it again with a nother great video
Wow, you sure work hard. Harder than you need to work. Do you own a wheel barrow, and know how to build a rudimentary ramp? You can get more done like that.
New to your channel. I love the info on sawmills and raised beds....I used 3 foot metal spikes for the sides of my bed then drilled screws to secure. Worked well with leveling too.
Hi love your video, beds are beautiful. Too late now but next time guide truck back could have dumped directly over first bed. Then remove excess scraping into wheel barrow, and all excess spill overs. Would have totally buried first one haha...
Really enjoyed your videos. I have been doing research on raised beds for my Degree. (Lucky to be old and have the professor want you to study at your farm "Internship") One of the things that I have found is the raised bed typically does not cycle the P and K. This is caused by the fact that P and K at elements that are taken on the up take better than down. When you are designing your raised bed having the water cycle to come up from under the bed also will make a stronger plant system. I have a lot more if your interested but the bottom line is keep it up we need more doing it.
Do you have website or YT channel to share your valuable findings. :-)
Hello Doug and Stacy# curious when I put fruits in my compost, is it healthy for it if it starts molding??? Thank you for all that you do, and to help other communities. Your a blessing from Heaven. 😍🥰😇🙏
Compost is rot ,mould and all
Great job Doug!
I found I had to go only 3 feet wide, as I have a very bad back, and with only three feet wide, you don't have to reach as far.
uClash Gaming Smart move.
GREAT VIDEO!
Love your tzit-tzit(ot?) !!!!!!!! I've only just begun to watch y'all & I noticed this immediately!
Great video! love the garden bed design. I plan on making a few myself.
Oooh your raised beds,are so nice. What do you put on top to keep weeds out? Newspapers, or mulch?
We have mostly raised beds since we have 1/2acre urban homestead. My goal with it is to plan food and flowers everywhere. Then there is a stealth plan for chickens and goats...wait, can you have stealth goats???? Film at 11.
=)
Susie Que stealth muscovy ducks
I can't stop giggling! Muscovy Ducks are anything in the world but 'stealth'! Thanks
if vanilla ice were amish, "whats up holmes!". love this guy.
Another thing I had not thought of is the moles and mice!
I know you're gonna put a beehive right smack in the middle of where you're gonna plant wild flowers, right?
Looking good.....Where is Stacy?....I thought you all were a team?...LOL
I'm too cheap to buy wood for raised beds....Garage door installers are always looking for a place to get rid of wooden garage door panels. They scrap out the metal ones for cash, so those are hard to get free.
Their some fancy new fangled beds.
Back to Eden,awesome raised beds.To bad the tractors down,sure would of saved some wear n tear.
I like to learn more about composting. I love my raised beds.
I don't know what area you're in but do you think you you will give peach trees, lemon trees, etc?
Wow! Maybe if I sold my boats, cars, and motorcycles I could afford to buy enough ceder to build a few raised beds.
No need to do all that, I built three 8’x4’x16” raised beds and the cedar was under $100 because I went to an Amish sawmill. The soil was more expensive than the wood.
it's easier to move the truck next to the box and shovel from inside the truck or rake it into the box. Well....unless you enjoy shoveling.
thank you this was awesome later this will come handy for my bad back.
great info
Doug, chicken wire will rust out quickly. I used hardware cloth on the bottom of mine.
Man,Beautiful!
Beautiful job!! Swanky FFP :)
off grid in a modern way...why did you choose raised beds? Raised beds are nice and I have thought of that alternative because my soil sometimes does not cooperate. But now that i have been nursing my soil to a good productive soil I think I'll be good this year.
the chicken wire should have been out down first, before the wood beds. Any animal can just go to the bottom perimeter and enter and eat the roots of what you want. It would be easy to push up the chicken wire at the sides.
also the holes in chicken wire are too large.....gophers can get through or even chew through the thin wire
welded wire is best
Gotta get some sawdust soon!
You run a mean shovel there Sir ;)
Love your videos lol
love it doug, you are gonna need more dirt
Im missing those vidéos about farm And garden stuff
love filling raised beds!
I'm really enjoying all your videos and getting a great education. Many thanks. I'm not computer savvy or know my way around youtube but is there a way I can watch them chronologically so I can have a better idea of things? Can you use cedar sawdust in the beds?
Use sawdust it to store root vegetables through the winter as well.
Shalom Doug, A word of caution from a fellow who has farmed much of his life. Be careful with using sawdust in your garden. Since it is broken down into smaller particles than wood chips, it will rot faster. This sounds great to the gardener, but it comes with a price. And that is, as it begins to break down, it will suck up much of the available nitrogen in the soil (more than other things that decomposes slower). If you incorporate it in your soil it will only make matters worse. So then when you grow crops in this soil, especially those that hunger for nitrogen such as corn, your yields will be greatly reduced if you get any yield at all. The only way to counteract its effects is to add a lot of nitrogen fertilizer, or manure that is rich in nitrogen such as chicken manure. Please view, "Sawdust in the garden - not a good idea" by Mhpgardener. This fellow made this same mistake and shows his results. Wish you the best!
How many yards of compost was that to fill the raised beds ? Will use this as my blue print for New Hampshire - its PERFECT Thanks so much and NO WASTE!!! God Bless:)
I am envisioning your raised bed layout and wild flower garden and it sounds so awesome. I have done this in our back yard here in South Central Pennsylvania with our raised bed gardens and Perennial flower gardens. It has truly been a work of Love and I am always adding on to our gardens, because a gardeners work is never done. Thanks so much for sharing this terrific video, and if you get some free time check out our raised bed gardens on our tiny sliver of land here in South Central, Pennsylvania. :)
I know this is not related to video but was just wondering if you guys are enjoying the berkie. Have been looking for it in your kitchen and haven't seen it yet. Keep up the awesome vids they sure do help illiterates like my self. LOL.
In a perfect world there are no short handled shovels.
I wish. we have a pulp mill near us. they buy up all our local saw dust.