Filling a Raised Garden Bed? Watch This First or Risk These 5 Mistakes!
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2023
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In this video, I'm sharing 5 mistakes I made when I filled my metal raised garden beds. These mistakes can help you avoid making the same mistakes and help you fill your raised garden bed correctly the first time!
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Excellent video! Fantastic advice! Who knew raised bed soil would mess up a raised bed if not amended with perlite. Hoping the coming video shows how much to use. Looking forward to it! Thanks Michelle!
So nice of you. I'm mixing in about 20% perlite with the soil.
@@michelleinthemeadow Thanks!
Yep, I'm experiencing this same thing this weekend. Live and learn.
Good luck! It's better to do it now and get it set right going forward.
Those are some good points Michelle. I think I got lucky by accident. I'm using the 17" beds so side pressure isn't a problem. I used 6" tall slabs of oak mostly which fit below the support beams and added more cheap top soil onto them. Then I finished off with good soil which happens to have plenty of Florida sand mixed into it so I haven't seen any compaction. But I have seen plenty of earthworms - this place is crawling with them and I'm putting them to work.
Thanks, Jack! I'm thinking about some worm buckets next time, too.
@@michelleinthemeadow I've noticed plenty of worms in the bed with the Vego worm bin. But frankly they are over-priced so I would just go with 5 gallon buckets and a bunch of holes.
Great tip! Thank you.
awww....Baby Face...😊🦋
She is a hot mess! Making cameos everywhere. LOL.
Having seen the video from Marc (Self Sufficient Me) I ran my braces through a 1x5" piece of old ironwood deck board standing vertically in the center of the run. I cut the board to match the height of the bed, drilled holes at the brace bar heights and filled around it. That ironwood should last quite awhile, supporting those braces.
As a side note, I dumped six bags of alfalfa pellets (Horse feed, at Tractor Supply) on top of my logs, brush, etc., to aid in the breakdown before topping off with my "good" soil mix. The alfalfa pellets offer a good - and relatively cheap - source of high nitrogen organic material.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting idea on the pellets. Very cool. Whatvwill you griw in your bed?
@@michelleinthemeadow Shallow root vegetables for the first couple of years as the ground settles and is topped off. I generally rotate my plantings. I may even try leeks this fall - there is someone on the 'tube, British, Irish or a Scot, I'm not good on the accents, who, instead of trenching or mounding leeks, takes 2 liter soda containers, cuts off the top and bottom and lines them with a light blocking material. He sets those over the stalk and gets the same result as burying it, without the effort. Sounds like a great idea.
Cool. I'll have to check that out. I haven't grown leeks yet. Happy Gardening!
Thank you, this was helpful.
You're welcome! I'm so glad.
Thank you, Michelle!!! Perfect timing for this video.
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching.
I'm getting ready to fill a 32inch vego today. Glad I saw this first. Excellent advice. Thank you!
I am so glad it's helpful! Thank you for watching!
This is great, I am about to post a video this week about how to handle these tall Birdies beds for year 3, and I talk about compacted soil. We use large delivery of compost not potting soil and we add omri fertilizer.
Thank you. I am excited to see your video. You have really put the beds through the paces. I can't wait to learn more.
@Michelle in the Meadow it's a long garden chat style, just posted it this afternoon, I had recorded it yesterday so pretty funny that we has similar topics today 😄
That compacted soil will also wreck to drainage as well.
Definitely, I can see that hurting the bed, too.
Very Nice Instruction. Thank you.🌝
Great information, Michelle!! Thanks for sharing!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Good information. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!
We live as we learn
Yes, indeed!
I agree. I did so many leaves and grass and sticks. Then I have wound up filling it with good stuff about 18" now! I use the 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite and 1/3 compost mixture of equal amounts of 5 different compost types (chicken manure, cow manure, worm castings, ocean mix, bar guano/forrest mix). I didnt have time to dig out my bed this weekend but will next weekend. I need to add more filler on the bottom cause its too much money to have the tall beds 1/2 full of the good stuff!
Fantastic. Let us know how it's going!
Thanks for these valuable tips!
You're quite welcome. Always learning for sure.
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Thank, thank you, thank you! I’m filling my tall Vego beds right now. And yay, I have a big bag of perlite in the shed. I “think” I covered all the rest of what you suggested, so 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Wonderful! I'm so glad! Nothing is terribly complex just things to think about. Thank you for watching!
Babyface looked like saying "geeze... ruining my fun mom !?" 🤣
Totally. Mom's are such party poopers.
GREAT advice thanks!!
You are so welcome!
Excellent info. I’m just buying one of these beds and this tip is helpful.
You are welcome! Glad it helps.
Hügelkultur it also about creating a living medium for the plants to feed from.
So true. Thanks for that reminder. Woot.
Thank You!
You're welcome!
Good Stuff! Thanks
Glad you liked it! Thank you for watching.
Michelle thx so much . I happen to see the first video of Birdies raised garden beds. I have since bought 3 and got one free. Thx for sharing.😊
Whoo hoo. Thank you for supporting the channel and my family. What will you be growing?
@@michelleinthemeadow I've started seeds and now have Broccoli, Califlower, okra, peppers , tomatoes and Benarys giant Zinnias. They are about five inches high and ready to plant. 😃🌻
@@BrendaLGreen That's awesome. You're ready for all kinds of good growing and eating. Thanks for sharing.
Love your video. Looking forward to my Vego raised beds. Your information is very helpful.
I'm so glad it was helpful. Thanks for your kind words. What will you be growing?
Squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces etc.
@@tonipollack5021 That's awesome! Thank you for sharing. YUM!
Identifying the problems is the first step of fixing them! Good job, Michelle! I think a few of my containers (filled last spring) may have the same compaction problem! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome, and I believe in my very 1st ever bed. I did put in perlite, but I was mixing all the soil myself. But I'll be on top of that going forward.
@@michelleinthemeadow It happens. You live and you learn. Thats why I've been using potting mix this year to fill the top of my containers. But my wallet doesnt love that very much 😅
I cannot wait till I can produce enough of my own compost. Day by day we get better and better.
Thank you so much for sharing this!!!! I want raised beds and I want to do it right straight out of the gate! I don’t have the energy to redo things because I did not do enough up front research!! 😩🤣😂
You are so welcome. I'm so glad it is helpful.
Do you have any videos on putting in irrigation into these raised beds?
LOVE this video! Question: did you put any sort of wire or netting down first before filling? I'm imagining chipmunks and such coming up from the bottom.
Great question, I did not in my garden because I hadn't seen any problem with critters digging up into the beds. But.
I am also heavily loading the bottom with logs and debris, making it a little harder to excavate, I think.
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Thank you!
Sand can also be used as an alternative to pearlite
I did not know that. Very interesting.
I was wondering about sand.....
Michelle, curious how you would describe the "compactness" of your base layer. We have logs, brush, wood chips, and fill dirt but don't know how much to compress that layer before putting in (our now fluffier!) soil mixture. TIA!
Great question, I really mean just trying to make sure that all the nooks and crannies are filled. Because the leaves and mulch are gonna. Break down much faster than the logs.
Thank you for the info. I did see Marks video and already made sure nothing was across the top of the support beams but, the pear lite will be a good thing to add with my nice topsoil, compost mix.
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching. What are you growing in your garden.
@@michelleinthemeadow just got the so first crops will be cold weather ones. After that, anything and everything I can. Tomatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, beans, anything. We started with buying 4 raised beds and plan to add 4 each year until our space is full.
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@@michelleinthemeadow is that in Canada too? I live there.
Great question. It looks like Vego Garden does ship to Canada. But you may have something local instead without import and duty. Thank you for asking. 🙂
I'm starting a new raised garden, total of 24". I'm filling the bottom 5" with drainage rock & the rest of the 19" with raised garden soil. 1st, is that correct & should I mix the raised garden soil with another soil like top soil as I get to the top or add something else before I add the Jungle Stuff brand raised garden bed soil?
I personally don't use rock on the bottom because I want the worms to reach up and help decompose my other filler I use to make it take less soil. But I do like to mix in perlite or something like it to help keep the soil from compacting.
Pics would have been a nice add
Thank you. Good point. Thanks for watching.
I filled my Vego with soil, just regular garden soil from a part of my property that was getting flattened. Bust the Vego like a month old beached whale. I think there was just too much weight.
Oh no. I'm sorry to hear about that.
Hello babyface
She is a sweet girl. Unless you're a butterfly, lizard, or mouse.
Do you have any videos on putting in irrigation into these raised beds?
Great question. I don't, yet. I am starting some testing on different systems, soon.