We have raised beds and in-ground beds. Last year my husband came in to the house and said we had a "squash borer" in our yellow squash. It had completely wilted overnight. We determined just to pull up the plant and throw it in the garbage. He went out to do just that and came back in holding something close to his chest. He said, "Here's your squash borer." He was holding a baby rabbit. He said when he pulled the plant, three of them went in different directions and he caught the fourth! There was a nest under the squash plant. Rabbits can get in raised beds! I'm not sure how tall they would have to be, but our raised beds are those metal "water trough" looking raised beds.
We own an off grid ranch in the Rocky Mountains. There is an agricultural area down in the valley below us chock full of old round stock tanks, absolutely PERFECT for raised bed gardening! We put the word out on the “valley grapevine” and our prayers were answered with 12 stock tanks! It has worked just great, and we are thankful to all those who happily gave those old tanks another productive life! (Tank sizes from 6 to 8 feet in diameter)
So true but there are some good things about growing older and being single. The biggest thing is I don't give a crap about what anybody else thinks anymore. I have my home I have my gardens, my two great sons and one awesome daughter-in-law, two wonderful grandsons, three awesome grand doggies and the best neighbors of old lady could ask for. Plus my wonderful little abode and half acre with food gardens and flowerbeds. Life is good and I hope to live to 90 as my mother did.
Raised beds are favorite for rabbit nest. We had 12 babies in our raised beds. Hopefully you make them high enough so the rabbits cant jump inside them.
You will never be sorry you did this!! I have a raised bed garden and I LOVE it! I barely have to weed. The soil is great. My beds are 4 x 10. Off one bed, I got 63 quarts of green beans and gave a lot away. I got 29 jars of beets, but kept all of those. I’ve even grown okra in them. I won’t grow pumpkin, spaghetti squash, watermelon or cantaloupe in them again though. They took over my garden you might say. I’ve canned salsa, barbecue, ketchup, and pasta sauce. I’ve canned carrots, jalapeños, cowboy candy, and corn. I’ve frozen, zucchini, peppers, onions, and potatoes. (Canned potatoes too) I’ve made strawberry and blackberry jams and jellies.Pickles and sauerkraut and pesto. I’ve dehydrated basil and thyme. I now have plenty of garlic in honey. I have peas and celery in the freezer. I have been SUPER busy this summer and now canning apples and pears off our trees. All this (except pears and apples) from our our raised beds! It’s my life and I love it! 😊❤😊❤God has blessed us!!
I was thinking the same thing. Those green tomatoes looked good. They have many uses such as salsas, green tomato cakes and pies, fried green tomatoes, green tomatoes can be added to soups and chili, and other people would have been happy to have them.
So happy for you and your daughter that she has chosen Jesus as her personal savior ! Thanks for sharing your faith in him publicly. I watch you regularly and have downloaded your seed starting info as well. I also garden and can and freeze as you do. It is inspiring to see what you are doing with your harvests. I also have animals and enjoy seeing yours as well. You have carved out a good life. God bless you all !
Good Morning, I'm in NW Georgia. The soil is clay.,2 feet over from that sandy loam, next to that you might think you've hit concrete. When wet it is mush mud. When dry it is concrete rock hard. Even our zetor tractor struggles. Raised beds and containers without question. Can't wait to see it.
We just had a first frost. September 20. If I can give you a suggestion. I have raised beds. Large ones. Keep the width to an easy reach for you Sarah and do the height right. Too low and you are on your knees and climbing in to plant and harvest, too high you are stretching the knee and back in wrong position. All our gardens are gated. They lift off individually around the entire 22’ x 4’ beds. Raccoons and deer are an issue. Consider putting hard cloth down at the bottom. The first two beds we built 17 years ago we didn’t and this year for some reason we are having issues with chipmunks and voles. All a suggestion. Irrigation is easy if you do a stand pipe to each bed. Connect, disconnect. Spacing between the beds to get wagons or wheel barrows through is critical. Cattle panels are your friend for trellising vine crops or even some flowers. You will love raised bed gardening. enjoy the planning you are experts at that. Can’t wait to see your configuration as we are just about to begin planning for our son’s on his farm. Have a great day💝🇨🇦
When you think of aging in place, a raised bed is easier...less bending, easier to keep the critters away, less fencing, easier to harvest, weed and water. So many reasons raised beds are a great option!
I've done in ground gardening for the last 40 years and this year went with raised beds and had a GREAT Harvest. So much easier to garden and control the weeds. Highly recommend raised beds.
I am looking at all those green tomatoes and thinking about how many fried green tomatoes you could have yum yum. My mom chops them up and fries them with okra. So delish and such a great combination of flavors
I'm still laughing when Kevin said he didn't think rabbits would be a problem with the raised beds! I have 24x1in chicken wire around all my outside raised beds in both my previous home and now my current home of six years. Rabbits will completely graze off tender shoots overnight leaving you a bare bed in the morning. They eat the brassicas, carrots, beets, beans, peas... I now grow broccoli and asst peas inside the poly tunnel for Fall and Early spring. Typically I grow all root veg in the outside raised beds. In fact I planted my fall Garden a few weeks ago and took down the chicken wire barrier as I added amendments to the bed and cultivated them in. I then planted carrots using the plank method of seeding, laying down a plank for 7-10 days then lifting for the seedlings to shoot up. The six rows of carrots looked fabulous and next morning w/o the fence - grazed to the ground. I'd rethink your view of raised beds not being impacted by rabbits.
I call that making bacon when the rejected produce goes to the pigs. As I get older and less flexible, I wish I had put in raised beds when I was in my 50s.
I live in Salem Missouri and I completely agree with you when switching over to raised beds. We've been busy building a larger coop and run for our growing flock and am hoping for time to get my extended garden area set up with lots of raised beds, getting ready for next year's growing season. My front yard is where I'm growing most of my herbs, flowers and fruits, easy access. I got a great harvest from my sunflowers which have been excellent at keeping pollinators around, so I'll be planting even more sunflowers everywhere I grow food, can't wait. I'm experimenting and seeing how long I can keep growing items until they don't produce anymore. Right now I still have cucumbers growing, bell peppers, zucchini, pie pumpkin, butternut squash and a couple other pepper plants which I hope I get something off of. We must all do what we can do to grow as much food as we possibly can. We can not trust food from any other sources other than what we can grow ourselves, safer and healthier that way. Blessings to you both and your homestead. Missouri Wrightchk
Did the opposite. Raised beds are horrible. I proved my thinking once, put a tomato plant in a round raised bed and one in ground 3 ft away. Same dirt and fertilizer, exact same every thing. One in raised bed had small tomatoes and diseases, in ground was big and lush. So i marked out my 75 x 100 garden and took 2ft of dirt out with tractor and had loads of top soil and compost brought in as mine was nothing but rock and clay too. Then laid fabric and drip down and i have had best garden i ever have had for several years now. I cant figure out the hype. Even in ground flowers do better that my ones in boxes. Thankfull for coming across your videos on the fabric and drip it was game changer for me
Nice! If you have not started.. MAKE SURE you leave enough space to get equipment in to refill those beds- every new planting. They tend to drop a good 6 inches. At least that has been my experience. I did not leave enough space out of the joy of raised bed gardening and now 😏😏🤣It's fun shoveling and pulling 1 cart at a time through the rows! 😝😝🤣
We put in 3 4x8 raised beds and had great success for years. Last year we purchased 10 bags of Miracle Grow Organic Raised Bed Soil from Costco to replenish soil level. Planted seeds in one and had zero germination. Plants did poorly so I gave up. This year planted only plants with same result. Tomato plant that would normally be 8+ feet tall not even 3 feet.
Yep...I get your frustration. We live in Missouri as well and our soil is terrible. We have huge rocks just under the surface of the soil. I am so excited that you two are posting about this. We will be watching closely for your raised bed updates.
KEVIN...with prices of EVERYTHING going up Sooo fast, maybe it would be a good idea to order and have delivered all of the dirt ingredients and much of the LUMBER right NOW. "A bird in the hand... is worth 2 in the bush" as they say. Something to really think about.
The green tomatoes make a delicious green tomato relish, to eat on scrambled eggs, eggs/potato/spam, cheese bake, roasts of all kinds of roasts! I'm 61 years old, and my 8 brothers and sisters and I grew up on it. After my mom canned 300 quarts of tomatoes, she turned to the green tomatoes, making green tomato relish. My mom is 85, and still makes it, with my sister's help, today!! You should watch Becky, on acre homestead, to see how she made her soil in her new raised beds, produce better results. When her plants weren't growing, she sprinkled on more fishbone dust, and sprayed on, with water, something to help the soil have what it needed, to help plants grow.
Rabbits love my raised-beds. They dig hole and make nests for their kits. They ate my green bean & pepper plants. Our raised-beds are 2ft high. I hope this helps in some way.
That’s the only way I’ve gardened for years. Every year we add more footage. Hope it does great for y’all. Hardest part for me is I’ve had so much trouble with bagged soil, I’ve burnt up a garden with contaminated poop and contaminated hay, and 3 years ago I bought 2 dump truck loads of what was supposed to be composted garden soil. It wasn’t . So after so many failures I’m scared to death to purchase anything to fill the beds.
I was lucky enough to find a local supplier that uses sandy loam, clay, composted chicken manure, rice hulls and bark. I have had very good results. I used to try making my own with the Kow product and peat and blood meal and bone meal...the recipe varied. But the changes in quality from those supplies since the cough has made it impossible to get consistent results
@@HueyCreekWW, 😂 “the cough”. This past spring we bought a mix of topsoil, sand, and compost from a local supplier and crossed our fingers. Good results! Phew. But just never know from one year to the next no matter who we go with.
Good morning. Raised beds are awesome. The greenhouse has been great for you guys. It sounds like the soil is like river sand/dirt. Its had to say. You guys will have great success with the raised beds. Lots of hard work, but you guys got this. Its been fun watching you guys build up this homestead. 💜💜
Lol. I live not far from you and have been using GB raised beds for years. Let me tell you, if you plant watermelons. You’ll want a fence. Deer will still get in, along with other critters. And don’t think it will detour rabbits. May slow them down, but they find a way. Our beds are about knee high and this year I found rabbits had mad a bed in one. Don’t ask me how, but it happened. Anyway, I wish you much luck on your journey. Here in this area, raised beds are the only way to grow
Ra8sed beds won't keep rabbits out of your garden. We use a 4' tall fence of chicken wire and t-posts that surrounds our entire garden. Not a single rabbit has gotten through in 4 years. We use traditional gates to enter & exit. Just make sure they close well with no gaps.
Your biggest prep work is going to be running your irrigation lines to each raised bed prior to putting them in place. My raised beds, with the exception of my hugel beds, dry out fairly quickly. Also, tomatoes in raised beds are a PIA. They topple easily with cages. You will have to use T-posts and cattle panels.
@@lisabroom819Did it knock over the t-posts and cattle panels or did it knock over the plants themselves? I haven’t had problems with the posts staying in my clay soil once they’re pounded in a foot or more. I want cattle panels but haven’t shelled out the cash for them yet. I do a florida weave on my tomatoes with two or three plants between posts. I have a plant taller than me and it has stayed put in the wind. I have to keep an eye on new growth to make sure everything stays trained where I want it. Tomato cages and tomato stakes are junk and will flop over with the slightest breeze once the plants get big.
I like trellises for the raised bed tomatoes. I'd rather use vertical space for viney plants and they can be planted right an edge. A bonus for going vertical is that the full trellis them gives a bit of shade through the day and let's me plant greens that don't bolt as fast.
I switched to raised bed gardening 40 years ago and never looked back and Your decision to switch should be a rewarding one. God bless, thanx for sharing. 😃
Have seen corn successfully grown in raised beds. Rabbits have jumped into my tall large pots and one even made a nest and raised her babies. So I don't think a raised bed will deter rabbits. I am eager to see your raised beds! Thank you for sharing.
We use hugulkulture to fill our raised beds, and that saves a lot of money for soil to fill space. Also, if your highway dept is cleaning roadside ditches in your area, you could ask for a few loads of soil. In West Virginia, they will accommodate for no cost, just be cautious if they use herbicides along the roads. Love your channel!
Love your raised bed decision. We have used Raised beds for 3 years now. Never plan on in ground again. Ours are 18" tall and Rabbits still get in them. We pack our beds with squared garden method, and have had a huge success doing that.
I have the same problem with the soil in central AR. I started raised beds and closed in a large lot where I can add more throughout the winter. I am going to use wood chips for the isles
I dug the dirt from paths and put it on top of leaves in wide in ground slightly raised rows I edged with boards and then filled paths with bark. The raised beds here dry out too fast. I think the bark creates nice water reservoirs and I can always shift the rows over paths for instant hugelkulture beds. I sometimes wonder who will end up with the land that has to pull up all that landscape fabric😂. I know I’m still pulling plastic here from former owner. Once roots get into it it’s not easy to pull.
I have noticed more and more gardeners going with raised beds. With the unpredictable weather and the heat waves, in ground gardens just can't cope. I look forward to seeing the new raised beds.
Cover crops chopped and turned back into the soil will turn that poor soil into something great in just a couple years. If you have chip drop in your area you should sign up for it, when left to compost it turns into black gold. You have the means to turn a huge pile of wood chips, but I don't have a tractor. I'd like very much to have a half acre to garden.
we have the same type of soil living in the mountains of WV. We are building our soul slowly but sure Jadam techniques for free fertilizer and building soil faster
We lost 2 kittens just overnight. They didn't have a momma. We were bottle feeding and fostering to help our overwhelmed local animal shelter. Congradulation on your A2 cow.
Becky at One Acre Homestead had fancy raised beds built for her new home and used them this past summer. She did landscape fabric and soil testing and such.
going to raised beds years ago was the best decision i ever made especially now that i am older. you can use shade cloth ect when you need to i love my raised beds.i went with tall raised beds so i dont have to bend ect i thought about aging in place thats why i went with tall raised beds.
I can’t wait to see your raised bed garden plan! I hope you make it your dream, so it’s enjoyable for you both to tend to the rest of your lives. Of course we’ll all learn from your experience and knowledge too, so you’ll be spreading the joy🤩
I put on 8 raised beds, 6x3ft each. I connected my sprinkler system to the garden and I can adjust each bed individually, it's awesome. I make a lot of compost and use arborist wood chips as mulch, the garden was amazing this year, my best year yet.
@@natem3152 mine are only 1 foot tall, I just laid cardboard and some vegetable scraps in the bottom, hoping the roots can just grow down into the ground if they need to. I used cow manure for the soil, it had already turned into dirt. I had problems with weeds at first (guessing from the cow manure) but after adding the wood chips I barely get any, also they keep the soil moist. I just move the wood chips to the side and add compost that I make, then spread them out again. I am just growing organic, haven't used any chemicals or anything
@@HansWick I'm trying just grass clippings and leaves to make soil via long mix and stir method. I want to try hugalculture biochar and wood chips this year. Would love for some expert opinions!
@@natem3152 I've tried hugelkultur, it worked fine for me but I have heard you want to use deeper beds for that, I haven't tried biochar yet but I know it's popular. The irrigation system, wood chip mulch and making compost seems to be the perfect combination for me. Good luck!
I begged for a couple of raised beds, just to have a few salad ingredients closer to the house. When my husband saw how well that they did, he built 20 more over the years and all the vegetables are in there now. To save on buying soil, he put rotten logs on the bottom, then I would dump kitchen waste & manure on there, and the top foot would be good soil. In the fall, when the harvest is done, we top the beds with the contents of the rabbit cages to deter the cats from using them as litter boxes, and in the spring, every bed gets a bag of fresh soil. They aren't big...average one is 3 x 8 feet.
We live in southeast Missouri near Wappapello lake. I switched over to raised beds 4 years ago mainly because we are in our late 60's and early 70's. I made 22 beds ranging in sizes 4X6 to 4X10 feet all being 24 inches deep using wood and metal roofing. I filled the first 12 inches with wood from trees that were used for firewood and then added compost, peat moss and perlite to the top. I've had some great harvest from my raised beds. God bless!
My raised beds run north south, so both west and east sides get sun, and all get full sun midday. I have cattle panel trellises and the back half of all of them (hoop). Works well, I've had them several years.
For my raised bed gardens, I used Pallets. I set them on end, and bolted them together to form a U shaped garden with a walk in. Then I wrapped both sides of the pallets with some left over roofing metal ( Blue}. Following that, I filled the pallet voids with concrete. Next, A 2x10 was bolted to the pallet end tops, to which I attached cattle panels to turn it all into a tunnel. After that, wiggle wire channels were installed along the 2x10, enabling the use of both plastic and shade cloth when needed..... and straps to help keep it in place. Thusly, creating a Green House with it's own Heat Sink
You will definitely enjoy having raised beds as the older you get. I know from experience. 😅 Less bending over, no tilling, & better drainage. We just add a layer of organic compost each season & then put some organic fertilizer (we like Dr. Earth) in each hole at planting time. The soil in your beds will get better & better each year. Can't wait to watch your progress.
For me, this time of year yields green tomatoes aplenty. I would never give nice green ones to the pigs. In our house we feast on fried green tomatoes.
I'm in Northern Wisco and have raised beds. our soil is sand and gravel too. Raised beds are totally the way to go and they look so pretty. I love the artistic side that you can put in with raised beds that in ground gardens don't have. I like to tuck potted flowers against my raised beds too and fill it out that way. my garden is a mix of cottage garden feel with food but it gets my heart everytime! 😊
Raised beds are awesome! The soil at my house is just fill dirt which is nothing but horrible dirt and rocks. Raised beds is all I do. Y'all will love them and have lots of success! 💕
I'm in south central KY and my place had rocks, not gravel but big flat rocks that bred over the winters, producing little flat rocks. I used those rocks to make paths in my raised bed garden! Best thing I ever did!
Raised beds are all we have. Set up that way in order to accommodate some physical disability issues. We are so pleased with how it has worked out. If I had one regret it would be that we didn’t build larger beds. All our beds are in tanks on resin pallets just in case we have to move them. The location with the best sun is in an area that the piping from our septic tank runs thru to the drain field. We didn’t want to lose our garden in the event of a problem that required digging up pipes. I’m very excited to see how your beds come together!
Wow! That sure seems like a lot of work/expense to put in raised beds! Your plan is already in motion so I don't want to "throw the screws" at it, but have you considered building the soil in that garden by layering compost and whatever soil you have to buy to fill those raised beds? Use the entire plot as a compost pile over the winter and just keep adding to it. That'd be one large raised bed but still touching the Earth to get the advantages of being grounded. Dump all of your leaves and grass clippings and dead veggie plants in there. Some "bottom" leaf mulch mixed in from under your hardwoods would bring in microbial life. Let the chickens go turn it for you by dumping their grain in the area. Next year you would be well on your way to improved soil and beautiful veggies. In a couple of years, you'll have the perfect soil! Just my two cents. God Bless you! Love your videos!
I decided that a few years ago. After losing my garden because of too much rain. Raised beds saved my garden this year. Western Ma had way to much rain this year and we still have to much rain coming. Farmers lose a lot of their crops.
I totally understand you moving to raised beds. Not going to lie, I loved watching you garden in the ground. I too live in the Ozarks and grew up on a homestead, seeing your garden brought back such fond memories, as we had very similar issues.
yes, I feel your pain. Just an hour west of you guys. Dug a 4x26 strip and sifted the rock out and filled with compost and other material. Ouch. The other two are raised and also protein buckets. very different soil here even was happy with sand in florida.
Here's some Raised Bed Tips: I installed raised beds back in 2013. Used Wedgelock fencing system with 5 foot tall no climb Redbrand woven wire horse fence to keep the deer out (I live on a deer super highway). Has worked like a charm. Deer have poor depth perception so they are afraid to jump onto the raised beds and trellises within the fenced in garden. I highly recommend making your raised beds a maximum of 4 feet wide so you don't have to walk on them to prevent compacting the soil. Our raised beds are 4 foot wide by approx. 20 feet long with 4 foot paths around the raised beds (4 foot paths allow for plants to spread out on the paths, during the growing season, allowing you enough room to still walk down your paths and for harvesting. You can use old wire fencing to build cylindrical compost bins (at least 3 feet wide diameter by 3 feet tall) to hold your compost so you can make your own compost and refill your raised beds periodically. I also used free scrap redwood to build the sides of my raised beds. I have hoops over the raised beds that I built using metal electrical conduit. I put agricultural fabric over them when the weather gets cold and bad so I can grow year round. Trellises are also made of metal electrical conduit, made in the USA, from Home Depot. Let me know if you have questions. Hope this helps Living Traditions and fellow subscribers.
My garden is about a quarter acre. It sounds like your soil is similar to mine. I put tons and tons of composted horse manure in my rows from a farm that only feeds organically grown hay. After a few years my garden soil looks like potting soil and I grow an abundance of food every year. I also plant green manure crops in unused sections of my garden and till them in when they flower. If you plan to grow corn or watermelon or vining squash, amending your soil will eventually make it quite easy to grow in. You have easy access to pig manure and cow manure which can be composted and incorporated too.
I have a few raised beds and they dry out quickly. I went to 3’ wide rows and like you incorporated everything into them and threw the sandy soil from paths into them and refilled the paths with bark. It’s worked out great. We have had extreme drought this year and I did install simple drip irrigation and it’s been the best ever.
You already have the best fertilizers available to mend the soil , animal waste. Also if rock is a problem you can start by sifting small amount at a time til you get a better content. Clay will be amended as well, any farm will have plenty of detritus to add to soil to make it great again. I understand there are many more chores that take a lot of your time, but it all depends of the results you want in the end.
Yep! clay and sandstone here in central Ohio. We are primarily growing in raised bed. It’s a work in progress. We have heavy deer, groundhogs, rabbits, raccoons pressure, ugh! We have 3’ high fence and electric line at top for the deer.
@@carolschedler3832 Roots and Refuge Farm is Jess's channel. She was my introduction to homesteading on TH-cam and is still my favorite. I came back to say, the beds on their current property are really fancy/pretty but, if you go into their older videos, they had instructions on building the same version in a more budget friendly way for most of us😊
I just started watching ur videos My God you two are such a hard working team Its so refreshing to see man & wife working side by side who click. you must be each others soulmates. I have really learn a lot. and I think Kevin thrives on new projects...lol he just glows when he talks of his plans. And Sara you keep up every step in all you do... Such a beautiful lady. I know we'd be great friends if I lived nearby I'm from White Oak Pa near the great town of the PITTSBURGH STEELERS (football) lol Love every bit of info you share. Two Beautiful people Oh and I Just LOVE Waddlesville...Too Stinkin cute ...
I take the soil out of my ground holes and replace it every year when I plant . That way it’s updated soil and not the Rocky Missouri soil. I wish I could afford to put in raised beds, I built some and after 3 years they are breaking apart. Carder would be best, but cost prohibitive.
You should look at Roots and Refuge and how her husband made their beds. Also might want to consider high beds for as you age in place. Saves on the back. 😉👍 also I would definitely still use your landscape fabric and build on top of it. I know you guys got this. 🥰. I love my raised beds.
I can't wait to see your raised beds. We converted over from planting in the ground to raised beds just this spring 2023. Our soil is soooo rocky, big rocks and we have a lot of rain runoff from the hill above us so the land never dries out enough to get the tractor in to work the land. But anyway....BE CAREFUL about what you put in your raised beds. We bought really great topsoil BUT then we also got several loads of well aged horse manure which we thought was great. Turned out the horses had eaten hay that had been treated with Grazon Herbicide. We had mixed it with our topsoil and then planted this spring. It killed 90% and stunted EVERYTHING. So PLEASE know what you put in your raised beds. Looking forward to see how you guys do things. Take care and thanks for sharing, Debbie from NC
👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️All you need to do is pull dirt up to the root system to keep the stalks strong and run you some fence panels in betweem your corn row to help support the stalks from blowing over.
I’ve had rabbits make nests in my raised beds almost every year until I surrounded the bed area with 2’ high chicken wire attached to 3’ t-posts
We have raised beds and in-ground beds. Last year my husband came in to the house and said we had a "squash borer" in our yellow squash. It had completely wilted overnight. We determined just to pull up the plant and throw it in the garbage. He went out to do just that and came back in holding something close to his chest. He said, "Here's your squash borer." He was holding a baby rabbit. He said when he pulled the plant, three of them went in different directions and he caught the fourth! There was a nest under the squash plant. Rabbits can get in raised beds! I'm not sure how tall they would have to be, but our raised beds are those metal "water trough" looking raised beds.
We own an off grid ranch in the Rocky Mountains. There is an agricultural area down in the valley below us chock full of old round stock tanks, absolutely PERFECT for raised bed gardening! We put the word out on the “valley grapevine” and our prayers were answered with 12 stock tanks! It has worked just great, and we are thankful to all those who happily gave those old tanks another productive life! (Tank sizes from 6 to 8 feet in diameter)
Funny story. I had a nest of baby bunnies in my raised bed strawberry bed. Tucked under a nice tall strawberry plant.
Set everything, I mean everything up to when old age comes. Gardening is so hard once you get old. Everything is very hard when you get old.
So true but there are some good things about growing older and being single. The biggest thing is I don't give a crap about what anybody else thinks anymore. I have my home I have my gardens, my two great sons and one awesome daughter-in-law, two wonderful grandsons, three awesome grand doggies and the best neighbors of old lady could ask for. Plus my wonderful little abode and half acre with food gardens and flowerbeds. Life is good and I hope to live to 90 as my mother did.
Wherever you are I wish I was there to help you out.
Raised beds are favorite for rabbit nest. We had 12 babies in our raised beds. Hopefully you make them high enough so the rabbits cant jump inside them.
Put all your manurer in the garden spot and all your waisted feed.and make it your mulch pile
You will never be sorry you did this!! I have a raised bed garden and I LOVE it! I barely have to weed. The soil is great. My beds are 4 x 10. Off one bed, I got 63 quarts of green beans and gave a lot away. I got 29 jars of beets, but kept all of those. I’ve even grown okra in them. I won’t grow pumpkin, spaghetti squash, watermelon or cantaloupe in them again though. They took over my garden you might say. I’ve canned salsa, barbecue, ketchup, and pasta sauce. I’ve canned carrots, jalapeños, cowboy candy, and corn. I’ve frozen, zucchini, peppers, onions, and potatoes. (Canned potatoes too) I’ve made strawberry and blackberry jams and jellies.Pickles and sauerkraut and pesto. I’ve dehydrated basil and thyme. I now have plenty of garlic in honey. I have peas and celery in the freezer. I have been SUPER busy this summer and now canning apples and pears off our trees. All this (except pears and apples) from our our raised beds! It’s my life and I love it! 😊❤😊❤God has blessed us!!
I nearly cried to see all those delicious green tomatoes go to the pigs. I love fried green tomatoes.
I was thinking the same thing. Those green tomatoes looked good. They have many uses such as salsas, green tomato cakes and pies, fried green tomatoes, green tomatoes can be added to soups and chili, and other people would have been happy to have them.
So happy for you and your daughter that she has chosen Jesus as her personal savior ! Thanks for sharing your faith in him publicly. I watch you regularly and have downloaded your seed starting info as well. I also garden and can and freeze as you do. It is inspiring to see what you are doing with your harvests. I also have animals and enjoy seeing yours as well. You have carved out a good life. God bless you all !
Good Morning, I'm in NW Georgia. The soil is clay.,2 feet over from that sandy loam, next to that you might think you've hit concrete. When wet it is mush mud. When dry it is concrete rock hard.
Even our zetor tractor struggles.
Raised beds and containers without question.
Can't wait to see it.
Cleaning up the garden in the fall is one of my favorite tasks. It's so satisfying!
I'm eager to see what type of raised beds you build.
Same here ~
We just had a first frost. September 20. If I can give you a suggestion. I have raised beds. Large ones. Keep the width to an easy reach for you Sarah and do the height right. Too low and you are on your knees and climbing in to plant and harvest, too high you are stretching the knee and back in wrong position. All our gardens are gated. They lift off individually around the entire 22’ x 4’ beds. Raccoons and deer are an issue. Consider putting hard cloth down at the bottom. The first two beds we built 17 years ago we didn’t and this year for some reason we are having issues with chipmunks and voles. All a suggestion. Irrigation is easy if you do a stand pipe to each bed. Connect, disconnect. Spacing between the beds to get wagons or wheel barrows through is critical. Cattle panels are your friend for trellising vine crops or even some flowers. You will love raised bed gardening. enjoy the planning you are experts at that. Can’t wait to see your configuration as we are just about to begin planning for our son’s on his farm. Have a great day💝🇨🇦
Generally 3’ wide for easy reaching to center of beds is best.
u CAN grow corn in raised beds, u can grow corn in big pots too, like in ur greenhouse
Tried that. Definitely stunts overall, and pollination is definitely a struggle.
@@paularunyan8588 oh thats too bad, ive had success, u cant put too many in a bed or a pot together, i grew some in a pot this yr.
I hope you looked at acre homesteads videos about her raised beds. She follows y’all
Becky’s corn was a fail.
I grow all my corn in raised beds
Would love to see more of the 🐷 piggies 🐷 . THANKS.😊
When you think of aging in place, a raised bed is easier...less bending, easier to keep the critters away, less fencing, easier to harvest, weed and water. So many reasons raised beds are a great option!
I've done in ground gardening for the last 40 years and this year went with raised beds and had a GREAT Harvest. So much easier to garden and control the weeds. Highly recommend raised beds.
I am looking at all those green tomatoes and thinking about how many fried green tomatoes you could have yum yum. My mom chops them up and fries them with okra. So delish and such a great combination of flavors
I'm still laughing when Kevin said he didn't think rabbits would be a problem with the raised beds! I have 24x1in chicken wire around all my outside raised beds in both my previous home and now my current home of six years. Rabbits will completely graze off tender shoots overnight leaving you a bare bed in the morning. They eat the brassicas, carrots, beets, beans, peas... I now grow broccoli and asst peas inside the poly tunnel for Fall and Early spring. Typically I grow all root veg in the outside raised beds. In fact I planted my fall Garden a few weeks ago and took down the chicken wire barrier as I added amendments to the bed and cultivated them in. I then planted carrots using the plank method of seeding, laying down a plank for 7-10 days then lifting for the seedlings to shoot up. The six rows of carrots looked fabulous and next morning w/o the fence - grazed to the ground. I'd rethink your view of raised beds not being impacted by rabbits.
I call that making bacon when the rejected produce goes to the pigs.
As I get older and less flexible, I wish I had put in raised beds when I was in my 50s.
Never say never........😊
I enjoy making goodies with the green tomatoes! Like Chow Chow!
I live in Salem Missouri and I completely agree with you when switching over to raised beds. We've been busy building a larger coop and run for our growing flock and am hoping for time to get my extended garden area set up with lots of raised beds, getting ready for next year's growing season. My front yard is where I'm growing most of my herbs, flowers and fruits, easy access. I got a great harvest from my sunflowers which have been excellent at keeping pollinators around, so I'll be planting even more sunflowers everywhere I grow food, can't wait. I'm experimenting and seeing how long I can keep growing items until they don't produce anymore. Right now I still have cucumbers growing, bell peppers, zucchini, pie pumpkin, butternut squash and a couple other pepper plants which I hope I get something off of. We must all do what we can do to grow as much food as we possibly can. We can not trust food from any other sources other than what we can grow ourselves, safer and healthier that way. Blessings to you both and your homestead. Missouri Wrightchk
Did the opposite. Raised beds are horrible. I proved my thinking once, put a tomato plant in a round raised bed and one in ground 3 ft away. Same dirt and fertilizer, exact same every thing. One in raised bed had small tomatoes and diseases, in ground was big and lush. So i marked out my 75 x 100 garden and took 2ft of dirt out with tractor and had loads of top soil and compost brought in as mine was nothing but rock and clay too. Then laid fabric and drip down and i have had best garden i ever have had for several years now. I cant figure out the hype. Even in ground flowers do better that my ones in boxes. Thankfull for coming across your videos on the fabric and drip it was game changer for me
Nice! If you have not started.. MAKE SURE you leave enough space to get equipment in to refill those beds- every new planting. They tend to drop a good 6 inches. At least that has been my experience. I did not leave enough space out of the joy of raised bed gardening and now 😏😏🤣It's fun shoveling and pulling 1 cart at a time through the rows! 😝😝🤣
Lol, the rabbits in my neck of the woods jump up and into my raised bed that is just over 2 foot tall
You could dig out 2 ft of spoil in the area you determine, and fill it in with proper soil. Raised beds will be pricey.
The deer will be happy to eat from raised beds...I wouldn't put the fencing too far away 👍
We put in 3 4x8 raised beds and had great success for years. Last year we purchased 10 bags of Miracle Grow Organic Raised Bed Soil from Costco to replenish soil level. Planted seeds in one and had zero germination. Plants did poorly so I gave up. This year planted only plants with same result. Tomato plant that would normally be 8+ feet tall not even 3 feet.
hook a chain on the bucket and around the post, lift the bucket they should come out of the ground
Yep...I get your frustration. We live in Missouri as well and our soil is terrible. We have huge rocks just under the surface of the soil. I am so excited that you two are posting about this. We will be watching closely for your raised bed updates.
KEVIN...with prices of EVERYTHING going up Sooo fast, maybe it would be a good idea to order and have delivered all of the dirt ingredients and much of the LUMBER right NOW. "A bird in the hand... is worth 2 in the bush" as they say. Something to really think about.
The green tomatoes make a delicious green tomato relish, to eat on scrambled eggs, eggs/potato/spam, cheese bake, roasts of all kinds of roasts! I'm 61 years old, and my 8 brothers and sisters and I grew up on it. After my mom canned 300 quarts of tomatoes, she turned to the green tomatoes, making green tomato relish. My mom is 85, and still makes it, with my sister's help, today!!
You should watch Becky, on acre homestead, to see how she made her soil in her new raised beds, produce better results. When her plants weren't growing, she sprinkled on more fishbone dust, and sprayed on, with water, something to help the soil have what it needed, to help plants grow.
I have raised beds in MN but still have animals get in. So we have kept up the fence. Some animals burrow underneath and somehow eat some tomatoes,
Rabbits love my raised-beds. They dig hole and make nests for their kits. They ate my green bean & pepper plants. Our raised-beds are 2ft high. I hope this helps in some way.
That’s the only way I’ve gardened for years. Every year we add more footage. Hope it does great for y’all. Hardest part for me is I’ve had so much trouble with bagged soil, I’ve burnt up a garden with contaminated poop and contaminated hay, and 3 years ago I bought 2 dump truck loads of what was supposed to be composted garden soil. It wasn’t . So after so many failures I’m scared to death to purchase anything to fill the beds.
Same here! Buying composted garden soil seems like playing roulette.
I was lucky enough to find a local supplier that uses sandy loam, clay, composted chicken manure, rice hulls and bark. I have had very good results. I used to try making my own with the Kow product and peat and blood meal and bone meal...the recipe varied. But the changes in quality from those supplies since the cough has made it impossible to get consistent results
@@HueyCreekWW, 😂 “the cough”. This past spring we bought a mix of topsoil, sand, and compost from a local supplier and crossed our fingers. Good results! Phew. But just never know from one year to the next no matter who we go with.
Good morning. Raised beds are awesome. The greenhouse has been great for you guys. It sounds like the soil is like river sand/dirt. Its had to say. You guys will have great success with the raised beds. Lots of hard work, but you guys got this. Its been fun watching you guys build up this homestead. 💜💜
Lol. I live not far from you and have been using GB raised beds for years. Let me tell you, if you plant watermelons. You’ll want a fence. Deer will still get in, along with other critters. And don’t think it will detour rabbits. May slow them down, but they find a way. Our beds are about knee high and this year I found rabbits had mad a bed in one. Don’t ask me how, but it happened. Anyway, I wish you much luck on your journey. Here in this area, raised beds are the only way to grow
Ra8sed beds won't keep rabbits out of your garden. We use a 4' tall fence of chicken wire and t-posts that surrounds our entire garden. Not a single rabbit has gotten through in 4 years. We use traditional gates to enter & exit. Just make sure they close well with no gaps.
Your biggest prep work is going to be running your irrigation lines to each raised bed prior to putting them in place. My raised beds, with the exception of my hugel beds, dry out fairly quickly.
Also, tomatoes in raised beds are a PIA. They topple easily with cages. You will have to use T-posts and cattle panels.
We tried T-posts and cattle panels but the storms that we had all summer kept knocking them over - so frustrating.
Could you not use cairns of stones in some raised beds and let the tomatoes sprawl over them?
@@lisabroom819Did it knock over the t-posts and cattle panels or did it knock over the plants themselves? I haven’t had problems with the posts staying in my clay soil once they’re pounded in a foot or more. I want cattle panels but haven’t shelled out the cash for them yet. I do a florida weave on my tomatoes with two or three plants between posts. I have a plant taller than me and it has stayed put in the wind. I have to keep an eye on new growth to make sure everything stays trained where I want it. Tomato cages and tomato stakes are junk and will flop over with the slightest breeze once the plants get big.
I like trellises for the raised bed tomatoes.
I'd rather use vertical space for viney plants and they can be planted right an edge.
A bonus for going vertical is that the full trellis them gives a bit of shade through the day and let's me plant greens that don't bolt as fast.
I switched to raised bed gardening 40 years ago and never looked back and Your decision to switch should be a rewarding one. God bless, thanx for sharing. 😃
It is sad to see the garden going but on to the new
I suggest doing all your raised beds at 3 FT high that way easy on your backs!
Not bending over so much. l love your farm and you! GOD Bless.
Have seen corn successfully grown in raised beds. Rabbits have jumped into my tall large pots and one even made a nest and raised her babies. So I don't think a raised bed will deter rabbits. I am eager to see your raised beds! Thank you for sharing.
We use hugulkulture to fill our raised beds, and that saves a lot of money for soil to fill space. Also, if your highway dept is cleaning roadside ditches in your area, you could ask for a few loads of soil. In West Virginia, they will accommodate for no cost, just be cautious if they use herbicides along the roads. Love your channel!
I have LOTS of wood rabbits. Rabbits get into my 2 ft high raised beds. Only 3 seem to have no issue.
Love your raised bed decision. We have used Raised beds for 3 years now. Never plan on in ground again. Ours are 18" tall and Rabbits still get in them. We pack our beds with squared garden method, and have had a huge success doing that.
I have the same problem with the soil in central AR. I started raised beds and closed in a large lot where I can add more throughout the winter. I am going to use wood chips for the isles
I dug the dirt from paths and put it on top of leaves in wide in ground slightly raised rows I edged with boards and then filled paths with bark. The raised beds here dry out too fast. I think the bark creates nice water reservoirs and I can always shift the rows over paths for instant hugelkulture beds. I sometimes wonder who will end up with the land that has to pull up all that landscape fabric😂. I know I’m still pulling plastic here from former owner. Once roots get into it it’s not easy to pull.
We have rabbits kindle in our raised beds fairly often
I have noticed more and more gardeners going with raised beds. With the unpredictable weather and the heat waves, in ground gardens just can't cope. I look forward to seeing the new raised beds.
Cover crops chopped and turned back into the soil will turn that poor soil into something great in just a couple years. If you have chip drop in your area you should sign up for it, when left to compost it turns into black gold. You have the means to turn a huge pile of wood chips, but I don't have a tractor. I'd like very much to have a half acre to garden.
We have( 10) 2 foot high raised beds and sadly rabbits still get into our beds :( We have even had rabbits starting their nests in a few.
we have the same type of soil living in the mountains of WV. We are building our soul slowly but sure Jadam techniques for free fertilizer and building soil faster
We lost 2 kittens just overnight. They didn't have a momma. We were bottle feeding and fostering to help our overwhelmed local animal shelter. Congradulation on your A2 cow.
Becky at One Acre Homestead had fancy raised beds built for her new home and used them this past summer. She did landscape fabric and soil testing and such.
going to raised beds years ago was the best decision i ever made especially now that i am older. you can use shade cloth ect when you need to i love my raised beds.i went with tall raised beds so i dont have to bend ect i thought about aging in place thats why i went with tall raised beds.
I can’t wait to see your raised bed garden plan! I hope you make it your dream, so it’s enjoyable for you both to tend to the rest of your lives. Of course we’ll all learn from your experience and knowledge too, so you’ll be spreading the joy🤩
I put on 8 raised beds, 6x3ft each. I connected my sprinkler system to the garden and I can adjust each bed individually, it's awesome. I make a lot of compost and use arborist wood chips as mulch, the garden was amazing this year, my best year yet.
How tall and did you do any special method, I.e., hugalculture?
@@natem3152 mine are only 1 foot tall, I just laid cardboard and some vegetable scraps in the bottom, hoping the roots can just grow down into the ground if they need to. I used cow manure for the soil, it had already turned into dirt. I had problems with weeds at first (guessing from the cow manure) but after adding the wood chips I barely get any, also they keep the soil moist. I just move the wood chips to the side and add compost that I make, then spread them out again. I am just growing organic, haven't used any chemicals or anything
@@HansWick I'm trying just grass clippings and leaves to make soil via long mix and stir method. I want to try hugalculture biochar and wood chips this year. Would love for some expert opinions!
@@natem3152 I've tried hugelkultur, it worked fine for me but I have heard you want to use deeper beds for that, I haven't tried biochar yet but I know it's popular. The irrigation system, wood chip mulch and making compost seems to be the perfect combination for me. Good luck!
I begged for a couple of raised beds, just to have a few salad ingredients closer to the house. When my husband saw how well that they did, he built 20 more over the years and all the vegetables are in there now. To save on buying soil, he put rotten logs on the bottom, then I would dump kitchen waste & manure on there, and the top foot would be good soil. In the fall, when the harvest is done, we top the beds with the contents of the rabbit cages to deter the cats from using them as litter boxes, and in the spring, every bed gets a bag of fresh soil. They aren't big...average one is 3 x 8 feet.
I make my own soil through composting and bokashi methods the easy way. Goodluck
We live in southeast Missouri near Wappapello lake. I switched over to raised beds 4 years ago mainly because we are in our late 60's and early 70's. I made 22 beds ranging in sizes 4X6 to 4X10 feet all being 24 inches deep using wood and metal roofing. I filled the first 12 inches with wood from trees that were used for firewood and then added compost, peat moss and perlite to the top. I've had some great harvest from my raised beds. God bless!
My raised beds run north south, so both west and east sides get sun, and all get full sun midday. I have cattle panel trellises and the back half of all of them (hoop). Works well, I've had them several years.
Yep, I run N to S also. The peppers on the east side of panels like the afternoon shade from the tomatoes on the west side.
I can’t believe y’all didn’t do anything with all those green tomatoes!????
We did this two years ago. It’s been great. We live in Florida so water was another concern. We have ten beds. Best thing we ever did. Good luck
For my raised bed gardens, I used Pallets. I set them on end, and bolted them together to form a U shaped garden with a walk in. Then I wrapped both sides of the pallets with some left over roofing metal ( Blue}. Following that, I filled the pallet voids with concrete. Next, A 2x10 was bolted to the pallet end tops, to which I attached cattle panels to turn it all into a tunnel. After that, wiggle wire channels were installed along the 2x10, enabling the use of both plastic and shade cloth when needed..... and straps to help keep it in place.
Thusly, creating a Green House with it's own Heat Sink
Great job 👏 👍 I really look forward to seeing your newly raised beds. May God continue to bless and keep you in the name of Jesus Christ 🙏
You will definitely enjoy having raised beds as the older you get. I know from experience. 😅 Less bending over, no tilling, & better drainage. We just add a layer of organic compost each season & then put some organic fertilizer (we like Dr. Earth) in each hole at planting time.
The soil in your beds will get better & better each year.
Can't wait to watch your progress.
Raised beds don't stop rabits in my garden. I think they like it better.
Better crop of tomatoes in that wagon for your pigs than I got all summer. 🤪Ground squirrels, the terror of all plants and even tree this year.
I JUST LOVE YOUR FARM AND HOW YOU LIVE THE OLD WAYS!! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS .💕💕💕
For me, this time of year yields green tomatoes aplenty. I would never give nice green ones to the pigs. In our house we feast on fried green tomatoes.
I'm in Northern Wisco and have raised beds. our soil is sand and gravel too. Raised beds are totally the way to go and they look so pretty. I love the artistic side that you can put in with raised beds that in ground gardens don't have. I like to tuck potted flowers against my raised beds too and fill it out that way. my garden is a mix of cottage garden feel with food but it gets my heart everytime! 😊
Raised beds are awesome! The soil at my house is just fill dirt which is nothing but horrible dirt and rocks. Raised beds is all I do. Y'all will love them and have lots of success! 💕
I'm in south central KY and my place had rocks, not gravel but big flat rocks that bred over the winters, producing little flat rocks. I used those rocks to make paths in my raised bed garden! Best thing I ever did!
Raised beds are all we have. Set up that way in order to accommodate some physical disability issues. We are so pleased with how it has worked out. If I had one regret it would be that we didn’t build larger beds. All our beds are in tanks on resin pallets just in case we have to move them. The location with the best sun is in an area that the piping from our septic tank runs thru to the drain field. We didn’t want to lose our garden in the event of a problem that required digging up pipes. I’m very excited to see how your beds come together!
Wow! That sure seems like a lot of work/expense to put in raised beds! Your plan is already in motion so I don't want to "throw the screws" at it, but have you considered building the soil in that garden by layering compost and whatever soil you have to buy to fill those raised beds? Use the entire plot as a compost pile over the winter and just keep adding to it. That'd be one large raised bed but still touching the Earth to get the advantages of being grounded. Dump all of your leaves and grass clippings and dead veggie plants in there. Some "bottom" leaf mulch mixed in from under your hardwoods would bring in microbial life. Let the chickens go turn it for you by dumping their grain in the area. Next year you would be well on your way to improved soil and beautiful veggies. In a couple of years, you'll have the perfect soil! Just my two cents. God Bless you! Love your videos!
Looks like you guys got a pretty good harvest despite the soil conditions.
I decided that a few years ago. After losing my garden because of too much rain. Raised beds saved my garden this year. Western Ma had way to much rain this year and we still have to much rain coming. Farmers lose a lot of their crops.
Also western MA. Rain decimated the peppers! Always look forward to next time….
I totally understand you moving to raised beds. Not going to lie, I loved watching you garden in the ground. I too live in the Ozarks and grew up on a homestead, seeing your garden brought back such fond memories, as we had very similar issues.
yes, I feel your pain. Just an hour west of you guys. Dug a 4x26 strip and sifted the rock out and filled
with compost and other material. Ouch. The other two are raised and also protein buckets. very different
soil here even was happy with sand in florida.
Here's some Raised Bed Tips: I installed raised beds back in 2013. Used Wedgelock fencing system with 5 foot tall no climb Redbrand woven wire horse fence to keep the deer out (I live on a deer super highway). Has worked like a charm. Deer have poor depth perception so they are afraid to jump onto the raised beds and trellises within the fenced in garden. I highly recommend making your raised beds a maximum of 4 feet wide so you don't have to walk on them to prevent compacting the soil. Our raised beds are 4 foot wide by approx. 20 feet long with 4 foot paths around the raised beds (4 foot paths allow for plants to spread out on the paths, during the growing season, allowing you enough room to still walk down your paths and for harvesting. You can use old wire fencing to build cylindrical compost bins (at least 3 feet wide diameter by 3 feet tall) to hold your compost so you can make your own compost and refill your raised beds periodically. I also used free scrap redwood to build the sides of my raised beds. I have hoops over the raised beds that I built using metal electrical conduit. I put agricultural fabric over them when the weather gets cold and bad so I can grow year round. Trellises are also made of metal electrical conduit, made in the USA, from Home Depot. Let me know if you have questions. Hope this helps Living Traditions and fellow subscribers.
Raised beds? YAY! I have a tiny property with seven raised beds and I make heaps of compost for them. Highly productive. I'll be watching for sure!
My garden is about a quarter acre. It sounds like your soil is similar to mine. I put tons and tons of composted horse manure in my rows from a farm that only feeds organically grown hay. After a few years my garden soil looks like potting soil and I grow an abundance of food every year. I also plant green manure crops in unused sections of my garden and till them in when they flower. If you plan to grow corn or watermelon or vining squash, amending your soil will eventually make it quite easy to grow in. You have easy access to pig manure and cow manure which can be composted and incorporated too.
I have a few raised beds and they dry out quickly. I went to 3’ wide rows and like you incorporated everything into them and threw the sandy soil from paths into them and refilled the paths with bark. It’s worked out great. We have had extreme drought this year and I did install simple drip irrigation and it’s been the best ever.
@@dustyflats3832 I use buried drip tape in my rows and it’s awesome.
You already have the best fertilizers available to mend the soil , animal waste. Also if rock is a problem you can start by sifting small amount at a time til you get a better content. Clay will be amended as well, any farm will have plenty of detritus to add to soil to make it great again. I understand there are many more chores that take a lot of your time, but it all depends of the results you want in the end.
I thought same about rabbits in raised beds but 1 st year had bunny kindle in a pot 30" off the ground lol. So beware
If watermelon is not ripe enough make pickled watermelon rinds
I agree with raised bed. you have to think about getting older. it will be easier to plant and harvest from them.
Yep! clay and sandstone here in central Ohio. We are primarily growing in raised bed. It’s a work in progress. We have heavy deer, groundhogs, rabbits, raccoons pressure, ugh! We have 3’ high fence and electric line at top for the deer.
I Cabool, we have the same soil. Raised beds only here. Hope you’re well.❤️
I love raised beds especially getting older! Jessica Sowards has some of the best raised bed examples I have seen, love their construction
Thank you. I hope I can find their channel. I'd love to see!
@@carolschedler3832 Roots and Refuge Farm is Jess's channel. She was my introduction to homesteading on TH-cam and is still my favorite.
I came back to say, the beds on their current property are really fancy/pretty but, if you go into their older videos, they had instructions on building the same version in a more budget friendly way for most of us😊
Acre Homestead also has an amazing raised bed garden
@@diannamc367 Thank you! I found it!!!!
@@kathyaakananabluebird Thank you!! Will find!
I love my raised bed gardens plots. They are a blessing. I know you will be thrilled with them too.
I just started watching ur videos My God you two are such a hard working team Its so refreshing to see man & wife working side by side who click. you must be each others soulmates. I have really learn a lot. and I think Kevin thrives on new projects...lol he just glows when he talks of his plans. And Sara you keep up every step in all you do... Such a beautiful lady. I know we'd be great friends if I lived nearby I'm from White Oak Pa near the great town of the PITTSBURGH STEELERS (football) lol Love every bit of info you share. Two Beautiful people Oh and I Just LOVE Waddlesville...Too Stinkin cute ...
Just a warning... rabbits will jump pretty high to get into a raised bed. Lost my carrots that way☺️
I take the soil out of my ground holes and replace it every year when I plant . That way it’s updated soil and not the Rocky Missouri soil. I wish I could afford to put in raised beds, I built some and after 3 years they are breaking apart. Carder would be best, but cost prohibitive.
You should look at Roots and Refuge and how her husband made their beds. Also might want to consider high beds for as you age in place. Saves on the back. 😉👍 also I would definitely still use your landscape fabric and build on top of it. I know you guys got this. 🥰. I love my raised beds.
I can't wait to see your raised beds. We converted over from planting in the ground to raised beds just this spring 2023. Our soil is soooo rocky, big rocks and we have a lot of rain runoff from the hill above us so the land never dries out enough to get the tractor in to work the land. But anyway....BE CAREFUL about what you put in your raised beds. We bought really great topsoil BUT then we also got several loads of well aged horse manure which we thought was great. Turned out the horses had eaten hay that had been treated with Grazon Herbicide. We had mixed it with our topsoil and then planted this spring. It killed 90% and stunted EVERYTHING. So PLEASE know what you put in your raised beds. Looking forward to see how you guys do things. Take care and thanks for sharing, Debbie from NC
You two are the hardest working couple !!
My daughter has raised beds and she still has a rabbit problem. In fact, they seem to love to make their nests in them.
I have the same problem here in the Chicago area
Raise beds sound like a good idea thank you for the video
Andrew and Tiffany from The Kelly's country life....they have raised bed gardening with corn....does really well😊
👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️All you need to do is pull dirt up to the root system to keep the stalks strong and run you some fence panels in betweem your corn row to help support the stalks from blowing over.