I’m Australian and I love my Birdies raised beds. I half fill them with branches and logs and then fill them up with soil and compost. Enjoy your raised bed garden.
Absolutely! Filling those with the soils needed is going to be $$$$. Hügelkultur is the best way for sure! 😊 Send the feral boys out on stick patrol!!!! Their such good helpers!
Used mulch one year -- had a ton of weeds by the end. Never again!! Now use landscape cloth Living Traditions Homestead uses. Very few weeds and no mud!!!
"Two longs, a long and a short". I worked for Bell Telephone. That statement reminded me of the phone ring on my grandparents 8 party phone line. Can you imagine 7 other families able to hear your calls?
Aussie Aussie oi oi oi. Nice to see an American family using product made in Australia. Our colour bond products are usually guaranteed against fading and determinations for up to 40 years.
Birdies are top notch garden beds. I like the way you have them, tall beds will save your back. Filling them can get very very expensive. Use hugelkultur methods to fill them. Basically you fill the bottom half with logs, sticks, branches and leaves. Then you put your soil in the top. The wood will break down over time and act as a sponge holding water for your plants.
Wow,I love those raised garden beds. The color is so pretty. I bet the boys would love peeling off the plastic coating. I know my kids would. I can't wait to see their final location and what you plan to grow. Your little farm is coming along so nicely. Everything is so perfect and planned out. I love the way you have organized each building. Do you plan to get any animals? I hope you get chickens. It would be a nice project for the kids. They could feed and collect the eggs and keep the coops clean. The bonus is all the eggs you will get. Happiness is watching your videos and dreaming about having a farm someday.
We have chickens already. :) Four laying hens that have been with us a bit. They moved over here when we did. They are the boys' responsibilities -- feed, scratch, water, eggs, and to help when coop clean out is needed. :) We've considered other animals, but need fencing first (on the short to do list).
@@sam-and-angela Didn't realize you had chickens. I guess I'll just have to wait to see what additional animals might be joining the Green Acre Homestead. I hope it's goats.
I switched to raised beds for same reasons and mine are 32" high. You will love them. I am blessed to have free materials and compost. I believe you are making a great investment in your future.
That is most definitely in my opinion a raised bed...not a foot high..but a trough size high...you will really enjoy that height..I had five troughs in my back yard..and it was such a joy, to plant the starting pots and seeds..with having to bend way down to the ground...never had the critters trying to eat them...and weeding was kept at a minimal...and then to harvest your treasure..nothing was back breaking...easy reaching towards the center...fir peppers, tomatoes, beans, even cucumbers..up on the trellis..you most definitely are going to enjoy that...can't wait to see the finished project..have fun...
If you use the the Hugelkutur method, it is a good idea to leave enough space through the logs and branches for the dirt to sift and filter down through; they can still be pretty densely packed but you want dirt and water to be able to get through to the bottom. With the dirt being able to get down through, then theoretically the feeder roots from longrr/bigger root balled veggies can get around the branches and logs as well if needed.
I love the garden beds! I decided to try bucket gardening this year. I found a local guy that made the raised forms in any arrangement you desired and he supplied the buckets as well. I’ll let you know later how it all turned out….lol. Love your vids. God’s blessings from southwest VA.
Just going to say ...before you drop a single thing in those beds...put down some sort of wire barrier or you'll be dealing with moles and gophers. It is like the little critters have raised bed radar lol.
1" chicken wire if it does not need to be predator proof... er wait thats for chickens. 1/2' hardware cloth to predator proof, 1" chicken wire for digging proof.
I agree with Ruth. Your will save so much money and you have the tree line behind your home. You probably already have free materials from that area. You won't have to burn it, etc. I think your new place is shaping up nicely. 😊
The garden beds look great. Can't wait to see your goodies start to pop up. I never was a good gardener but I surely could and enjoyed picking and preparing everything for all of us to enjoy. Thanks. Your little guy is going to be a great help in the garden. See ya all.
Sam I fill our raise beds ( made with roofing tin standing up with 2X4 top, saw on another U-Tube channel several years ago) to save dirt we filled them with wood from trees we trimmed, of course we didn’t use any black walnut or we would of had a problem with stuff not growing. Then filled with mushroom compost from JR Farms in Miami, Mo.
Those are the beds I am wanting to go with also, you can't beat the quality or the price that i found them at and with it being metal they won't rot! Totally a great opinion!!! Love your garden
I like enough room to get a wheel barrow around at least the outside edges and around at least some corners crosswise. As needed for space reasons, put 2 beds side by side with a narrower width space which is big enough for walking, watering, and harvesting inbetween. But then on the outer edge of each bed combos, leave enough room for a wheel barrow and/or garden cart to get up to the edge of the beds.
A friend of mine filled the bottom of the beds with straw bails she did that a couple of years ago with no problems. Good drainage and every spring time tops it up with compost and mulch as it sinks and decomposes. Good to hear an Ausy company getting a good wrap thanks love the channel Steve Australia.
We bought a really, really, REALLY, BAD! mobile home on one acre. I was telling my sister of the troubles and she called it green acres. Then I said green acre. Then I realized y’all were called green acre. 😂😂😂 y’all give me hope that someday we will have a beautiful home. Y’all are much younger than we are so it may take us longer😂.
Oh man, you won't regret the taller beds!! A bit more investment up front, but oh how it saves the back. I have the same color. Love how it's all coming together!
Really like these raised bed planters also so smart to make them higher. I'm 70 and lower ones are starting to be hard on the back. Since these raised beds are so high, I'd fill them up half full with leaves and sticks from the forest. You could put larger limbs and logs in the bottom of the beds.
I love you to kids, yes, and I say that because I'm 65 years old. These birdie beds look fantastic. I think that's something I might be interested in next fall. I'm interested in what you're going to be using for a fill for those boxes because they're so deep
We made our raised garden beds like a hugo garden.... first we took all of our old bills and junk mail that had been saved for who knows how long and dumped them in the bottom of our raised beds to break down over time. Then we added cardboard along with branches and tree limbs to break down (helping to take up space so we didn't have to use as much compost the first year... then we added compost and steer manure or bags of chicken manure... been so long don't remember for sure now... we love gardening in our raised beds... last two year I had the best tomatoes we have ever grown
I have a raised bed from a different company. I suggest using logs, leaves, and sticks to fill the bottom half of the beds, and then you will not have to use so much soil. Have you considered doing a video on bloopers?? It would be a good video.
The more you educate us about the tractor and getting to watch Angela learn to master it, I think you've done the research for me. I can stop researching and possibly buy one like yours.
Raised beds is totally the way to go. Where I live we have lots of gofers, rabbits and squirrels. Our beds are about that tall and your back will love you for this also easy to keep weeds out! One trick we did was to use wire panels and we hooped them between boxes ours are 36” apart any way we planted tomato’s on both sides and they just grew up and over was amazing! You just walk under the arch and pick tomato’s and you get shade as well!
Oh wow those raised garden beds are so wonderful and I agree with Angela about the color, I love that color and they look really sturdy and solid and I love a raised bed and soon I hope to get some for the back of my yard against my fence. Thanks so much for another great video, I hope that you have a blessed and beautiful weekend coming up, sending love and hugs, bye! 😉👏🙌🌷🌹💮💜💜💕
If you haven’t already filled them you can use popcorn packing or the plastic bags from your mulch or garden dirt. Use the bag to fill up with popcorn packing or other mulch bags. You will use less dirt, the plastic does not absorb water and roots can still go down and around the voids. You can reuse again next year.
Hello Angela & Sam. I am so happy you are able to start your garden in your new home and I love your birdies raised beds. My goal in the future is to buy raised beds. Nothing like a home grown vegetable, let me tell you I have had more fails then harvest since I started 2019 but I wont give up. Love your channel and happy gardening.
Acorn Nuts, Sam. They look good. Yours are not quite as easy to assemble as Doug and Ashley's. Hope you fill the bottoms with branches and leaves. It will save a lot of dirt.
I LOVE THE GARDEN BEDS AND GREAT JOB TO ALL OF YOU. I LOVE BIRDIES BEDS BUT CAN'T AFFORD THEM SO I HAD TO GO ON THE CHEAP ONES AND I ONLY GOT THE 2 FOR ONE PRICE ON 2 - 4 X 8'S SO I WILL BE HAPPY SINCE I CAN GROW AND TWO BEDS I BUILT WITH 1 X 6 X WAS 12 CUT IN HALF. I KNOW THEY WON'T LAST BECAUSE IT'S PINE BUT IT WAS WHAT I COULD DO AT THE TIME.
I’m Australian and I love my Birdies raised beds. I half fill them with branches and logs and then fill them up with soil and compost. Enjoy your raised bed garden.
Hi fellow Aussie we love ours as well, how cool is it to see Aussie made sticker! 😂💚🦘
Hugelkultur gardening. This would be the thing. Saves on dirt and over time makes good compost for plants.
yes, I hope they see this
You spelled it right and absolutely what I was thinking. Fill the beds with sticks or logs at least 1/2 way. Then add your compost and/or dirt.
Absolutely! Filling those with the soils needed is going to be $$$$. Hügelkultur is the best way for sure! 😊 Send the feral boys out on stick patrol!!!! Their such good helpers!
Yes hugelkultur. Large yard waste goes in first. Branches and log sections.
This was SUCH a good setup guide guys!
Thank you! We're eager to finish the rest of assembly and layout our garden!
It's pretty cool to see you building your homestead from scratch. I think it will be great!
Did you see Doug’s and Ashley’s cut up plastic culvert raised beds? Pretty handy. These look good, too.
We did! :)
Well…..Look at Ms. Angela pulling up to a structure on a tractor... You go girl!
Take care
Pretty labor intensive 😉
You can put branches, etc in the bottoms so you don’t need so much dirt
Used mulch one year -- had a ton of weeds by the end. Never again!! Now use landscape cloth Living Traditions Homestead uses. Very few weeds and no mud!!!
Love all your videos can't get enough of your wonderful family. Your homestead Is looking awesome. Love those two great kids you have.
I love how the boys like to help
"Two longs, a long and a short". I worked for Bell Telephone. That statement reminded me of the phone ring on my grandparents 8 party phone line. Can you imagine 7 other families able to hear your calls?
The bloopers are always the best!! Great job Mr Sam & Ms Angela
I agree! Love the bloopers! 😂
Good job Angela driving the tractor!
Thanks 👍
Angela you rock that tractor!!
Aussie Aussie oi oi oi. Nice to see an American family using product made in Australia. Our colour bond products are usually guaranteed against fading and determinations for up to 40 years.
U can fill the bottoms up with tree limbs. Which would make it dual purpose. Happy planting
Hi Sam Angela & boys,I really like your raised garden beds.I love the height of them.Have a great week! 🌷💕🌷
Good evening Sam and Angela .Hats off to the both of you . literally lol
The outtakes are so much fun.
Angela you did a fantastic job driving wtg great video from over the pond in 🇬🇧 ty for sharing
Doug and Ashley did something like this too...❤ it❣
Love those raised beds! You might consider placing tree branches and such in the bases, to save on using so much soil.
Can’t wait to see the gardens!
I couldn't believe that big thing came out of that box.
Birdies are top notch garden beds. I like the way you have them, tall beds will save your back. Filling them can get very very expensive. Use hugelkultur methods to fill them. Basically you fill the bottom half with logs, sticks, branches and leaves. Then you put your soil in the top. The wood will break down over time and act as a sponge holding water for your plants.
Awwww guys, y’all are working the feral right out of them boys. Lol
Stay safe
Liking the birdies
Wow,I love those raised garden beds. The color is so pretty. I bet the boys would love peeling off the plastic coating. I know my kids would. I can't wait to see their final location and what you plan to grow. Your little farm is coming along so nicely. Everything is so perfect and planned out. I love the way you have organized each building. Do you plan to get any animals? I hope you get chickens. It would be a nice project for the kids. They could feed and collect the eggs and keep the coops clean. The bonus is all the eggs you will get. Happiness is watching your videos and dreaming about having a farm someday.
We have chickens already. :) Four laying hens that have been with us a bit. They moved over here when we did. They are the boys' responsibilities -- feed, scratch, water, eggs, and to help when coop clean out is needed. :) We've considered other animals, but need fencing first (on the short to do list).
@@sam-and-angela Didn't realize you had chickens. I guess I'll just have to wait to see what additional animals might be joining the Green Acre Homestead. I hope it's goats.
I switched to raised beds for same reasons and mine are 32" high. You will love them. I am blessed to have free materials and compost. I believe you are making a great investment in your future.
That is most definitely in my opinion a raised bed...not a foot high..but a trough size high...you will really enjoy that height..I had five troughs in my back yard..and it was such a joy, to plant the starting pots and seeds..with having to bend way down to the ground...never had the critters trying to eat them...and weeding was kept at a minimal...and then to harvest your treasure..nothing was back breaking...easy reaching towards the center...fir peppers, tomatoes, beans, even cucumbers..up on the trellis..you most definitely are going to enjoy that...can't wait to see the finished project..have fun...
This is the best video on these garden beds so far. You guys did a fantastic job!
So happy you chose Birdies we have them as well and love them and being from Australia i love this 🦘💚
I love these garden beds! They’re awesome! Thanks for sharing this!
If you use the the Hugelkutur method, it is a good idea to leave enough space through the logs and branches for the dirt to sift and filter down through; they can still be pretty densely packed but you want dirt and water to be able to get through to the bottom. With the dirt being able to get down through, then theoretically the feeder roots from longrr/bigger root balled veggies can get around the branches and logs as well if needed.
Yes , use old tree branches, smaller logs ect for filler before filling with topsoil ! All will compost down and save on topsoil !
So excited....I want those garden beds...good choice Angela for your back....😊
Thank you! 🤗 -A
I love the garden beds! I decided to try bucket gardening this year. I found a local guy that made the raised forms in any arrangement you desired and he supplied the buckets as well. I’ll let you know later how it all turned out….lol. Love your vids. God’s blessings from southwest VA.
Those garden beds are going to be awesome, I can’t wait to see them growing . I’m glad you are enjoying that new tractor.
I love your garden bed they are pretty
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. May the Lord bless and protect you and your family
!o e to see folks work smarter not narder!! 😄
Just going to say ...before you drop a single thing in those beds...put down some sort of wire barrier or you'll be dealing with moles and gophers. It is like the little critters have raised bed radar lol.
1" chicken wire if it does not need to be predator proof... er wait thats for chickens. 1/2' hardware cloth to predator proof, 1" chicken wire for digging proof.
I agree with Ruth. Your will save so much money and you have the tree line behind your home. You probably already have free materials from that area. You won't have to burn it, etc. I think your new place is shaping up nicely. 😊
Thanks you all. Great video!!
The garden beds look great. Can't wait to see your goodies start to pop up. I never was a good gardener but I surely could and enjoyed picking and preparing everything for all of us to enjoy. Thanks. Your little guy is going to be a great help in the garden. See ya all.
Thanks Sam and Angela, I found the web site.
Sam I fill our raise beds ( made with roofing tin standing up with 2X4 top, saw on another U-Tube channel several years ago) to save dirt we filled them with wood from trees we trimmed, of course we didn’t use any black walnut or we would of had a problem with stuff not growing. Then filled with mushroom compost from JR Farms in Miami, Mo.
Take care and be blessed.😊
Sure will make gardening easier, but now the work of filling them becomes a chore. Good luck and time to get the boys busy. Good video
I got 17” tall ones for my tomatoes which was perfect
Love the look & color of the garden beds..
Thanks for sharing. Those beds look .
Y'all are such hard workers and so sweet of your son to bring water out to you.
Those are the beds I am wanting to go with also, you can't beat the quality or the price that i found them at and with it being metal they won't rot! Totally a great opinion!!! Love your garden
I love the babies always helping.❤
Way to go , working smarter not harder! Make sure the soil you get is certified grazon/pesticide free!
Plus save all the cardboard
I really love the beds. cant wait see them all set up.
These raised beds look nice. I’m anxious to see your next step(s).
I like enough room to get a wheel barrow around at least the outside edges and around at least some corners crosswise. As needed for space reasons, put 2 beds side by side with a narrower width space which is big enough for walking, watering, and harvesting inbetween. But then on the outer edge of each bed combos, leave enough room for a wheel barrow and/or garden cart to get up to the edge of the beds.
You should try and get heirloom seed varieties, so that you can collect seed to grow your vegetables going forward.
Its going to make a huge difference to gardening , for you so it saves your backache .
A friend of mine filled the bottom of the beds with straw bails she did that a couple of years ago with no problems. Good drainage and every spring time tops it up with compost and mulch as it sinks and decomposes. Good to hear an Ausy company getting a good wrap thanks love the channel Steve Australia.
I can't wait for the planting to begin 🙂
We bought a really, really, REALLY, BAD! mobile home on one acre. I was telling my sister of the troubles and she called it green acres. Then I said green acre. Then I realized y’all were called green acre. 😂😂😂 y’all give me hope that someday we will have a beautiful home. Y’all are much younger than we are so it may take us longer😂.
Those look really good and good luck with your garden🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Oh man, you won't regret the taller beds!! A bit more investment up front, but oh how it saves the back. I have the same color. Love how it's all coming together!
Have a safe and happy
Really like these raised bed planters also so smart to make them higher. I'm 70 and lower ones are starting to be hard on the back. Since these raised beds are so high, I'd fill them up half full with leaves and sticks from the forest. You could put larger limbs and logs in the bottom of the beds.
I love you to kids, yes, and I say that because I'm 65 years old. These birdie beds look fantastic. I think that's something I might be interested in next fall. I'm interested in what you're going to be using for a fill for those boxes because they're so deep
We made our raised garden beds like a hugo garden.... first we took all of our old bills and junk mail that had been saved for who knows how long and dumped them in the bottom of our raised beds to break down over time. Then we added cardboard along with branches and tree limbs to break down (helping to take up space so we didn't have to use as much compost the first year... then we added compost and steer manure or bags of chicken manure... been so long don't remember for sure now... we love gardening in our raised beds... last two year I had the best tomatoes we have ever grown
Yippeeee!! Love them!!!🍎🍉🍓🍅🥔🍆🥕🌽🧅🧄🥦🥬🥒🫑🌶
I have a raised bed from a different company. I suggest using logs, leaves, and sticks to fill the bottom half of the beds, and then you will not have to use so much soil. Have you considered doing a video on bloopers?? It would be a good video.
The more you educate us about the tractor and getting to watch Angela learn to master it, I think you've done the research for me. I can stop researching and possibly buy one like yours.
Love the raised beds and color
Can’t wait to see your garden. Such nice beds.
I really like those raised beds. Looks like your garden is going to look great
Those are beautiful! Can't wait to see the finished garden!!
They look sturdy and well made. Enjoy your gardening.
Those raised beds are awesome.
Thank you for bringing us along for the garden bed assembly. It is so helpful in making an educated decision. Love your videos. GOD bless
Glad you finally got a equipment sponsor. I didn't know about Birdies but I do now and will look into their products for my raised beds. Thank You.
I’m loving watching this whole process!!! ❤
I love your channel. Hugs from NM ❤
Great video !
I love the raised garden beds you chose!
Raised beds is totally the way to go. Where I live we have lots of gofers, rabbits and squirrels. Our beds are about that tall and your back will love you for this also easy to keep weeds out! One trick we did was to use wire panels and we hooped them between boxes ours are 36” apart any way we planted tomato’s on both sides and they just grew up and over was amazing! You just walk under the arch and pick tomato’s and you get shade as well!
Oh nice! That sounds like a great idea and one that would be very pretty too!
Thanks!
Wow, thank you!
Makes me want raised flower beds.. Great job guys....❤❤❤❤
Love it. You two are so good together
Oh wow those raised garden beds are so wonderful and I agree with Angela about the color, I love that color and they look really sturdy and solid and I love a raised bed and soon I hope to get some for the back of my yard against my fence. Thanks so much for another great video, I hope that you have a blessed and beautiful weekend coming up, sending love and hugs, bye! 😉👏🙌🌷🌹💮💜💜💕
Excited to see your garden beds coming along. How are your orchard trees doing?
If you haven’t already filled them you can use popcorn packing or the plastic bags from your mulch or garden dirt. Use the bag to fill up with popcorn packing or other mulch bags. You will use less dirt, the plastic does not absorb water and roots can still go down and around the voids. You can reuse again next year.
Those beds look so awesome and well made,nice choice in my opinion 👍😊...
Hello Angela & Sam. I am so happy you are able to start your garden in your new home and I love your birdies raised beds. My goal in the future is to buy raised beds. Nothing like a home grown vegetable, let me tell you I have had more fails then harvest since I started 2019 but I wont give up. Love your channel and happy gardening.
Acorn Nuts, Sam. They look good. Yours are not quite as easy to assemble as
Doug and Ashley's. Hope you fill the bottoms with branches and leaves. It will save a lot of dirt.
Everything looks so neat and organized.....good choice....hugs
Those deep beds are great for wicking (self watering) beds. Means putting less soil in there, and saves a lot of time watering plants.
WOW!! GREAT JOB.
I LOVE THE GARDEN BEDS AND GREAT JOB TO ALL OF YOU. I LOVE BIRDIES BEDS BUT CAN'T AFFORD THEM SO I HAD TO GO ON THE CHEAP ONES AND I ONLY GOT THE 2 FOR ONE PRICE ON 2 - 4 X 8'S SO I WILL BE HAPPY SINCE I CAN GROW AND TWO BEDS I BUILT WITH 1 X 6 X WAS 12 CUT IN HALF. I KNOW THEY WON'T LAST BECAUSE IT'S PINE BUT IT WAS WHAT I COULD DO AT THE TIME.
Nice, looking forward to the competition 👍🎅🏻
Those look awesome!