I'm busy watching all your videos and a new one appears. I'm just finishing filling my raised beds. 80% topsoil, 20% mixed composts, 300 cu ft from a car park 300 yards away. Exhausting...😊
@@GardeningInCanada Second year in the allotment. It was full of conifers and concrete so we grew on straw bales last year. Lots of double digging sand and tearing up landscape cloth over winter and then building and filling 3 x 26 inch deep beds over the last two weeks. I'm becoming a soil obsessive.
We moved to a large lot 5 years ago one area was a gravel driveway that went almost the whole.length sadly to hard to rejig so we put down thick poly designed for under a concrete foundation put a ft of woodchips on it and built one ft deep raised beds on top of that they have worked absolutely wonderful.
Last year all my tomatoes and potatoes were in pots. This year (using wood left over from our expanded deck), my husband has built me two 3'tall raised beds (2'x4' in size). They are on the earth, and I added some old logs/stumps to decrease the amount of soil needed. I plan to use them for tomatoes (they are on the south side of the deck, so get great sun), potatoes, and possibly carrots. We are in central Ontario, so sort of a Zone 4b. I already have a large bed (present when we purchased the house 3 years ago) that is north-facing. I planted very little there the first year, but got much better than anticipated results, so have now an established strawberry patch. Another "in-earth" garden has rhubarb and asparagus, and we are eagerly waiting to see if the blueberry plants made it through the winter. Biggest issue - keeping the dogs out of the gardens!
I have fairly good native soil but I have soooo much to do. So I'm planning to underlay with cardboard and making beds just deep enough for the shallow rooted crops. when the sod is dead I'll start loosening the native soil each year with a broad fork.
I don't know how I got this idea in my head a few years back; I purchased two of those big heavy duty green "Dumpster in a Bag" type bags from Home Depot. Each one can hold about 2 ½ yards of soil, maybe 3. I then framed them in with 2 x 4 with 24" spacing. so that the lift straps are supporting the middle and the top edge of the frame is low enough that I can tuck the edges of the bags over and used heavy duty staples to tack them down. I then capped the top edge over with cedar deck boards. It looks nice, strong as hell, doesn't sag out in the middle and if the bags do deteriorate, which I suppose they will eventually, I can just dig out the soil, replace the bags, fill them back in and get going again. I also have a 8 inch gravel base underneath it and I perforated the bottoms of the bags before I added my material. I loaded it up with organic waste as much organic waste as I could get and then bought really good soil to fill the rest up with. It will be standing strong long after we've moved from this house! Oh, I also covered up the frame with cedar fence boards fastened horizontally. Lotsa nails, lotsa screws, lotsa strong!
@@GardeningInCanada With what I call everythingkultur lol. The bottom is tree branches and cut up pieces from the Christmas tree, then a thick layer of duft and soil from a nearby forest, and finally a top layer of manure and potting soil mixed together. I live in the Okanagan so I need all the water retention I can get!
My plans for raised beds won't come to fruition this year. I can say the following things about my plans/dreams, though: I would love to have the tall (30-32") metal raised beds. I'd like to have one or two of the short metal raised beds (18") for things that don't require deep soil. I'd never bother making a raised bed less than 18" high. I'd love to get cattle panel to use for trellising and arching. That's what'd I'm dreaming of.
@3:54 - is this a test of how many videos DH watches, and how quickly after release? LOL, keep us updated. Thanks for the many ways to raised bed. I just dipped my toe into raised bed gardening, but idk which of your choices it is. It is a raised swale of chipped wood covered with topsoil, contained or buffered with decomposing logs and branches until roots can protect against erosion, and planted in big pockets of compost amended potting mix within the mounds, mulched with oak leaves. Actually pleasantly surprised at how well plants (taller fruiting, mid-level fruiting, and groundcover vines) are growing there. Also surprised at how quickly I have to keep topping the mounds, given that the wood chips were from oak branches.
Thanks for this information it’s very useful at this time. I have been treating different beds like a one size fits most situation and very been struggling to keep them from drying out. I move on a lot that (I didn’t know at the time) is half tree roots from previous trees and half pack down gravel for heavy equipment.🤷🏻♀️ I’ve lost several major plants 😢 I’m going save what I can and learn from my mistakes. 😅
There's a small section on the side of my house and it gets the best sun... I was thinking some trellising ( if I can make or manage it) and a decent size wire fenseline ( the critters now know there's food here lol 😅) going around it.. I think raised beds would do best in this small/medium sized space.. this most sun lit side also leads directly to my greenhouse outback. I just put some trellising up onto my fense trying to grow some cucumbers and winter squash. These are my plans.. idk how long it'll take me lol. I do think more vertical gardening may be useful in this project in the future as I go along.
Sadly for me in ground growing and beds in the ground are not possible. But I do have raised beds. My whole 20'x100' garden is wood chipped, its been done twice. in five years. On top of that are kiddie pool beds. I cut lots of 2'' holes in the bottom so its more of a mesh than a bottom. Then 6 to 8 inches of soil depending on the highlight of the pool. One benefit of raised beds is more control of the soil, and I am surprised you have a lot of native soil in your beds. Since mine are above the soil they get a lot of organic matter each year with compost and leaf mold. It looks like you have a sip bed. You likely have to add organic material each year like I do to my sips.
When you say the bed just has soil (mineral soil), do you dig it up from another part of your yard to add it? Am thinking of double digging or or starting lazy beds in my front or side yards because it seems more affordable than bringing in material for a raised bed. This past year I put a couple of raised beds in my back yard. I mixed clay fill (I know!), spoiled straw, food scraps, gypsum and rice hulls; growing results to be determined in 2024 lol. I like the idea of a cold frame!
My problem here is that my full sun front yard is laced with tree roots underneat. I tried no dig slightly raised bed many ways, many times, but it inevitably fails, as the big maple behind sucks all the nutrients and water with great joy. What can I do tomavoid that, and still get the benefit of a ntura » soil?
Mrs Ashely I have a question.. in a hurry to clip a rose for my niece before she went to school I accidentally cut the wrong rose off, it was the one producing a hip ugh! Quick like I put it in a root riot cube in a domed propagator and kept the cube fully moist with 650 tds of grow and bloom nutrients as well as foliar feeding her 4 leaves and the bloom, the petals have been removed and I'm surprised to find my Hope's was correct (I think) I hoped some soil scientist conformation would be nice if I properly foliar and keep cu e full of nutrients 1, can I root this rose and 2 more importantly to me can I make this hip produce a seed a I can grow ❤ Its amazing to me of this is possible what part of a plant is the "brain" where does it exactly understand I need this for that and able to do it without roots FASCINATING
Question about container gardening. I have several large pots I use for my tomatoes and peppers on my south east facing balcony. The last 2 weeks we have gotten so much rain that some of them are swampy. Is it best to dump the soil and start fresh, as it is with our lower temps so far my seedlings are ready to climb out of the starter pots they are in. Most of the pots are about 18-24 inches deep and 12 X12. The soil in one pot is so water logged it literally shakes like jello. A few are also covered with algae, which I know isn't always bad. Help !
@GardeningInCanada what advice could you give me for my mom, she is in her 80's and is having a harder time separating small seeds, like carrot seeds, when seeding her garden. I looked on Amazon and other sites but they really don't show small seeds when using seeders. Do you know of a good seeder that would help my mom?
I have some old raised beds filled with potting mix (mostly peat moss). I have access to poultry manure mixed with shredded cardboard. It's only partially composted, but I read it can increase ph while also adding some nutrition. Can I mix it into my old potting mix to rejuvenate it?
The coloured stuff is actually natural dye. Black is charcoal and red is an iron. So I would not sweat that. Only problem is I find it too course, if needs to be thinner
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I'm busy watching all your videos and a new one appears. I'm just finishing filling my raised beds. 80% topsoil, 20% mixed composts, 300 cu ft from a car park 300 yards away. Exhausting...😊
Ooo very nice! Good luck! Is this your first year?
@@GardeningInCanada Second year in the allotment. It was full of conifers and concrete so we grew on straw bales last year. Lots of double digging sand and tearing up landscape cloth over winter and then building and filling 3 x 26 inch deep beds over the last two weeks. I'm becoming a soil obsessive.
I love the pup! Omgosh!
I love to mix perlite on all my soils in ground and conatiner, its a cheap way to bulk up the volume of any soil mix
I'm a big fan of regular soil too... in its natural habitat... without a raised bed.
Love soil soil haha. I maybe boss though
We moved to a large lot 5 years ago one area was a gravel driveway that went almost the whole.length sadly to hard to rejig so we put down thick poly designed for under a concrete foundation put a ft of woodchips on it and built one ft deep raised beds on top of that they have worked absolutely wonderful.
That does sounds like a good setup! Well done. Lots of people will benefit from this comment
Hi Ashley!! Always useful information, thanks.😀
Last year all my tomatoes and potatoes were in pots. This year (using wood left over from our expanded deck), my husband has built me two 3'tall raised beds (2'x4' in size). They are on the earth, and I added some old logs/stumps to decrease the amount of soil needed. I plan to use them for tomatoes (they are on the south side of the deck, so get great sun), potatoes, and possibly carrots. We are in central Ontario, so sort of a Zone 4b. I already have a large bed (present when we purchased the house 3 years ago) that is north-facing. I planted very little there the first year, but got much better than anticipated results, so have now an established strawberry patch. Another "in-earth" garden has rhubarb and asparagus, and we are eagerly waiting to see if the blueberry plants made it through the winter. Biggest issue - keeping the dogs out of the gardens!
I have fairly good native soil but I have soooo much to do. So I'm planning to underlay with cardboard and making beds just deep enough for the shallow rooted crops. when the sod is dead I'll start loosening the native soil each year with a broad fork.
I don't know how I got this idea in my head a few years back; I purchased two of those big heavy duty green "Dumpster in a Bag" type bags from Home Depot. Each one can hold about 2 ½ yards of soil, maybe 3. I then framed them in with 2 x 4 with 24" spacing. so that the lift straps are supporting the middle and the top edge of the frame is low enough that I can tuck the edges of the bags over and used heavy duty staples to tack them down. I then capped the top edge over with cedar deck boards. It looks nice, strong as hell, doesn't sag out in the middle and if the bags do deteriorate, which I suppose they will eventually, I can just dig out the soil, replace the bags, fill them back in and get going again. I also have a 8 inch gravel base underneath it and I perforated the bottoms of the bags before I added my material. I loaded it up with organic waste as much organic waste as I could get and then bought really good soil to fill the rest up with. It will be standing strong long after we've moved from this house! Oh, I also covered up the frame with cedar fence boards fastened horizontally. Lotsa nails, lotsa screws, lotsa strong!
Thanks! This one really helps me out.
And super cute outfit 🥰💯
Awe thanks!
I make my raised beds out of pallets. Each pallet gets me one 24"×48"×15" section. I build a few every to gradually expand
Very nice! What are they filled with
@@GardeningInCanada With what I call everythingkultur lol. The bottom is tree branches and cut up pieces from the Christmas tree, then a thick layer of duft and soil from a nearby forest, and finally a top layer of manure and potting soil mixed together. I live in the Okanagan so I need all the water retention I can get!
I also think the ground beneath the raised bed should be dug or tilled as a lot of plants have deep roots, unless you have deep raised beds.
My plans for raised beds won't come to fruition this year. I can say the following things about my plans/dreams, though: I would love to have the tall (30-32") metal raised beds. I'd like to have one or two of the short metal raised beds (18") for things that don't require deep soil. I'd never bother making a raised bed less than 18" high. I'd love to get cattle panel to use for trellising and arching. That's what'd I'm dreaming of.
@3:54 - is this a test of how many videos DH watches, and how quickly after release? LOL, keep us updated.
Thanks for the many ways to raised bed. I just dipped my toe into raised bed gardening, but idk which of your choices it is. It is a raised swale of chipped wood covered with topsoil, contained or buffered with decomposing logs and branches until roots can protect against erosion, and planted in big pockets of compost amended potting mix within the mounds, mulched with oak leaves. Actually pleasantly surprised at how well plants (taller fruiting, mid-level fruiting, and groundcover vines) are growing there. Also surprised at how quickly I have to keep topping the mounds, given that the wood chips were from oak branches.
Very nice! Love using leaves
Your hat reminds me that I need to find my hat! Gotta protect my eyes from the sun!
Awesome
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Thanks for this information it’s very useful at this time. I have been treating different beds like a one size fits most situation and very been struggling to keep them from drying out. I move on a lot that (I didn’t know at the time) is half tree roots from previous trees and half pack down gravel for heavy equipment.🤷🏻♀️ I’ve lost several major plants 😢 I’m going save what I can and learn from my mistakes. 😅
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There's a small section on the side of my house and it gets the best sun... I was thinking some trellising ( if I can make or manage it) and a decent size wire fenseline ( the critters now know there's food here lol 😅) going around it.. I think raised beds would do best in this small/medium sized space.. this most sun lit side also leads directly to my greenhouse outback. I just put some trellising up onto my fense trying to grow some cucumbers and winter squash. These are my plans.. idk how long it'll take me lol. I do think more vertical gardening may be useful in this project in the future as I go along.
Thanks for sharing 🌱👍🏼
Anytime!
Sadly for me in ground growing and beds in the ground are not possible. But I do have raised beds. My whole 20'x100' garden is wood chipped, its been done twice. in five years. On top of that are kiddie pool beds. I cut lots of 2'' holes in the bottom so its more of a mesh than a bottom. Then 6 to 8 inches of soil depending on the highlight of the pool. One benefit of raised beds is more control of the soil, and I am surprised you have a lot of native soil in your beds. Since mine are above the soil they get a lot of organic matter each year with compost and leaf mold. It looks like you have a sip bed. You likely have to add organic material each year like I do to my sips.
Do you have a heavy clay?
@@GardeningInCanada I wouldnt say heavy clay, but clay dominate. But I am not growing in it.
When you say the bed just has soil (mineral soil), do you dig it up from another part of your yard to add it? Am thinking of double digging or or starting lazy beds in my front or side yards because it seems more affordable than bringing in material for a raised bed. This past year I put a couple of raised beds in my back yard. I mixed clay fill (I know!), spoiled straw, food scraps, gypsum and rice hulls; growing results to be determined in 2024 lol. I like the idea of a cold frame!
What are you recommending for mulch for raised beds. Thanks for the video. ♥️🌟
My problem here is that my full sun front yard is laced with tree roots underneat. I tried no dig slightly raised bed many ways, many times, but it inevitably fails, as the big maple behind sucks all the nutrients and water with great joy. What can I do tomavoid that, and still get the benefit of a ntura » soil?
Mrs Ashely I have a question.. in a hurry to clip a rose for my niece before she went to school I accidentally cut the wrong rose off, it was the one producing a hip ugh!
Quick like I put it in a root riot cube in a domed propagator and kept the cube fully moist with 650 tds of grow and bloom nutrients as well as foliar feeding her 4 leaves and the bloom, the petals have been removed and I'm surprised to find my Hope's was correct (I think) I hoped some soil scientist conformation would be nice if I properly foliar and keep cu e full of nutrients 1, can I root this rose and 2 more importantly to me can I make this hip produce a seed a I can grow ❤
Its amazing to me of this is possible what part of a plant is the "brain" where does it exactly understand I need this for that and able to do it without roots FASCINATING
Question about container gardening. I have several large pots I use for my tomatoes and peppers on my south east facing balcony. The last 2 weeks we have gotten so much rain that some of them are swampy. Is it best to dump the soil and start fresh, as it is with our lower temps so far my seedlings are ready to climb out of the starter pots they are in. Most of the pots are about 18-24 inches deep and 12 X12. The soil in one pot is so water logged it literally shakes like jello. A few are also covered with algae, which I know isn't always bad. Help !
@GardeningInCanada what advice could you give me for my mom, she is in her 80's and is having a harder time separating small seeds, like carrot seeds, when seeding her garden. I looked on Amazon and other sites but they really don't show small seeds when using seeders. Do you know of a good seeder that would help my mom?
You should try the liquid sowing method using corn starch. If you use a seeder you need to get pelleted seed.
I have some old raised beds filled with potting mix (mostly peat moss). I have access to poultry manure mixed with shredded cardboard. It's only partially composted, but I read it can increase ph while also adding some nutrition.
Can I mix it into my old potting mix to rejuvenate it?
Would you recommend mulch from big box stores ?
I'm concerned that the mulch may be treated with chemicals etc. Places like Home depot
The coloured stuff is actually natural dye. Black is charcoal and red is an iron. So I would not sweat that. Only problem is I find it too course, if needs to be thinner
@@GardeningInCanada thanks for the detailed reply 🙂
Keep the grass between the beds cut down?
How many peppers do you put in your pots
One per pot. And that’s per every five gallon pot.
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What if you put drip irrigation in that dry bed?
I’m sure it would make a big difference
What do you do to keep the grass between the beds?
Clean cardboard worked for me.
Oh yeah, im turning the lawn here into earth beds for starters. I mean have you seen the prices for food nowadays, jeee, thanks trudope.