G'day Everyone, my shoulders are sore, and this old knuckle dragger has a few blisters, but I really enjoyed this project (including the editing etc) - it was a ton of fun. I hope you are all "getting into it." Thanks for your ongoing support! Cheers :)
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos, especially telling us what's gone wrong and how you've fixed it! Love your work Mark! Thanks for sharing all of this!
while using boards or a thick metal flat bar on the outside walls as a brace you could run a long threaded rod through and bolt from the outside to keep the walls from bowing out like some of the raised beds you can buy online. could also use angled iron on the corners instead of wood that would rot or put the wood on the outside of he bed to brace the corners. I am thinking about making some beds out of cement blocks that should last the rest of my life.
Start watching for the gardening tips, but stay for the bird. 10/10 feathered assistant. Love the video, those posts are super neat. glad the bed is looking better!
I like watching real people who make mistakes. So many people on UA-cam pretend to be perfect at everything and it’s not realistic. They make me feel like giving up because nothing ever goes right for me lol. 😂 Great video.
Yes, I feel the same way, not about giving up but about how perfect everything seems. I take all this perfection with a grain of salt, do my best and enjoy the process 😁
Yes, Mark is very "real" with what goes on. Both the successes and mistakes get shared so we can all learn! Also, Mark has a forum with people most happy to answer questions you may have along the way ;) www.selfsufficientculture.com/
You're right! I've stopped watching certain gardening channels because everything looks so neat and perfect it's not possible to reproduce nor is it realistic for most people.
LOL! That bird is so curious.. He's literally just watching whatever you do. I've never been that close to a Wild Bird, that didn't try to fly away instantly.
Well I cannot say for sure. but I had simular experiences in the garden I've been working. When doing digging, and moving things always robins showed up, up to 2 meters away. They know somehow that theu can find worms and little insects very easily then.
I have crows that talk to me. I leave them flawed fruit and veggies. There are usually a few crows cawing at me when I garden. Pretty intelligent animals.
@@deaddoll1361 And I've read for "wild birds" Kookaburras are pretty fear-less when it comes to being around People. Here in America I guess our equivalent would be the Seagulls, the prospect of a meal is well-enough to put fear aside and come and try to chat me up for a piece of my lunch. (I've been known to give-in, which doesn't help.)
My sister in Australia has local kookaburra, cockatoos and other parakeet types she feeds so they will come right up. Here in America in Florida, my other sister has egrets and blue herons that will tap on the glass looking for a treat. In Virginia, the cat birds are friendly opportunists who will follow you around the yard to supervise and the wrens spend their time fussing at whatever you do. Some kinds of birds can be very bold but they certainly add to the joy.
Love the kookaburra supervisor! 🙂 He well and truly knows that you find his worms for him 🙂 When I was a kid the magpies would come down to eat the worms that were exposed during weeding. The galah liked it so much that she would dig the weeded spot more to find more worms for the magpies.
I love your vibe and your work ethic. Fixing our mistakes is how we learn. Sometimes it's an easy fix and sometimes it's not. But I love how hard you're always willing to work to accomplish the task at hand.
I'm surprised you didn't create steps before you put the garden beds in so they were level to start with. Hard wood easy to grow for posts if you use gums and they grow really fast. The kookaburras got you figured as a soft touch, I bet he loves being right next to you when you're working in the garden turning the soil over to get a few worms lol. Have a ripper mate!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos, especially telling us what's gone wrong and how you've fixed it! Love your work Mark! Thanks for sharing all of this!
The look on Mark's face as he started out was priceless. Frankly, this made my day because I have suffered from the flooding rains we had here in California which made everything grow out of control after years of drought. My garden has wild grass and weeds five feet high, and while using a cane at 73 years old, I believe I know what hard work feels like. I love the DIY video. Sure need more like this one. 🫡
Howdyyawl from the land down under.You are a passionate gardener, growing & eating your produce. A healthy lifestyle. Note" when handling mulch, soil,green waste, must use gloves. All plant waste is toxic to humans.I used to run a gardening service before I retired. Otherwise continue, your going great. Enjoy the fruits of your labour so to speek😅😊
What a delightful dude, if I had to be stranded on a island, he seems like the type of personality one would want as part of a community making a go of it.
When I built my beds on a substantial hill I actually made the downhill side taller and I try to angle the wood along the hill. I probably looked like a weirdo using a piece of lumber and a level to figure out how extra tall that side needed to be! I also put a couple 2ft lengths of rebar on the inside of the uphill wall about 1-1.5ft down to mitigate the slight concern I had about them sliding down the hill.
@@Selfsufficientme My only recommendation is adding Anchors plates on bars attached to the inner walls. Then angled 45° downward so they with be planted firmly. That way, when a wall wants to fall outward it will have to pull on the dirt inside. On a side note, I'd like to thank you for all the amazing content and info you provide on gardening! You are doing an amazing job👍🏻
I LOVE the overhead trellis idea. For cucumbers, that can grow and grow and grow, this is a fantastic idea to keep them out of the way. Same thing with sweet potato vines. I'll be doing this for sure!
I am one to get creative and thrifty in the garden so it’s always a treat when folks share their DIY triumphs and failures. I always say I do things the hardest way possible….but also the cheapest 😆 And that’s valuable to me!
It takes a real man to admit he is wrong but is willing learn from his mistakes, and come back with a solution and also give sound advice. Kudos mate and I await your next video.👊👍
I don't know why I just now subbed. You continually put out amazing content that is detailed, follows a great format, and is easy to understand and consume. I wish I had your drive. I have ideas I want to share, but no desire to do the work!
Love the heroic music and the humor intended. You’re an inspiration. For the post hole, what I’ve seen and done is dig 2 ft deeper than your intended depth for the pole. Place gravel and then your pole/post. then fill with quick setting concrete (10-20 minutes) followed by water and let sit for a day. Don’t forget to support the beam with something to keep it leveled
Celery has 700 seeds in a packet and they’re so tiny I figured they’d have poor germination, so I put about 10 seeds in each 6 cell. I’ve 70 plants now all over my garden. In flower pots, raised beds, against the house 🏠🌱🤣
@@steveegbert7429 I did. I started them December 31st so they got their own cells in February, then about 10 of them sprouted a second celery. It’s true they are resilient being transplanted, I don’t think I’ve had any die. Just have to keep them well watered.
@@Gardeningchristine That is true. I started several this year and only had one or two sprout and was about ready to give up. Then, after three weeks, I have more sprouting in the last few days!
Mark you are such a very hard worker, you make me tired just watching you work! haha just midding, I also never stop working. If I don’t do it it won’t get done.
And the bird is stealing the show. Your videos are amazing. I will be starting my garden when we move. Thanks for all the amazing videos. Excellent information.
With cantilevered posts, atleast 1/3 needs to be in the ground. If the planting bed is 900mm high, then you need atleast 450mm in ground. Also, to make the timber last longer, use it on the outside with metal on the inside ~ this is also structurally stronger as the pressure of the soil is pushing the metal against the posts rather relying on metal screw heads
@@robertkubrick3738 no, even without the strength is proportional to its depth, he has it right. I think they were designed to be minimal as possible so they didn't get in the way over rigidity.
Thanks for your gardening insights! At 71 I don’t have a garden any longer but still enjoy the fun and growth of a good garden. I have 43 indoor houseplants here in Canada and they are loving the Spring Eastern sun! Have a great day! 😀🌞❤️👍🙏🏻
I wish my husband had a 3rd of your spirit and love [seems you love it] of creating beds, gardening and growing food. This looks like a heck of a job, well done! Thanks for sharing.
At the end of the day you're probably better off leveling your building surface so you're not constantly fighting gravity. Glad this worked out though. Thanks for all the videos.
I always like seeing all your videos. But that magpie was so persistent! True plucky comic relief! 😂 I have small lizards that come to me in groups and watch the soil when I might turn a little. I have had them literally run down my arm when a juicy bug appears! I hope to get that on video one day! Great job recovering that bed!
Being in the northern hemisphere, I just got my raised bed partially planted yesterday from seedlings I had started. Mostly peppers with a couple tomatoes. I am a pubescens variety pepper lover. I haven't grown them for many years, as keeping them alive through the winter can be tough. I would grow individual giant rocoto plants in 100 gallon horse troughs and that is the minimum size for those plants. Normally the plants would have been out 4 to 6 weeks ago, but our spring has been fairly cold and wet.
When I built my beds with treated lumber, I added a plastic liner inside. I read that was a good way to close the risk gap. The plastic has kind of sloughed off over the years but it's about reducing a low risk, not about eliminating it. If I had already built my beds before I read about the possible risk of leeching, I wouldn't have done anything about it. But when you're building new it's definitely worth a bit of extra work.
If my husband can't fix it with zippy ties or glue, it's not worth fixing 😂 Glad you got your garden bed sorted out 👍🏼 I'm trying my hand at a garden this year. I come from a long line of agricultural brown thumbs (circa 1870 in Oz) and I can't manage to keep any plant alive past 4 weeks. But, this time I've been doing a lot of research for my sub-tropical zone and watching way too many gardening videos, including yours, that my family are becoming concerned 😂
Cool bird friend yo have there. Its nice watching you talk to the bird. Thanks for the video, "Inspired" got some ideas on building my own raised bed in Norway.
You can use the tamping end of a crow bar to drive the soil in to the point it's like concrete, and you can use this method to straighten the post by tamping in the opposite side to where you want it to go. Thats how I put in most of the posts that I do.
That bird made my day he loved watching you work! About to plant some mint, basil, thyme, and sage then in another plot some red onions, and finally some cucumbers!! Got my 8 chickens in their diy coop I built. I love love love watching you videos. I'm getting into it!!!!!
Mark, Woodshield looks perfect for building support structures for Dragonfruits. Always worried about using pine due to termite/rotting issues, so this looks very suitable
5:51 - just one point...make sure you pull as much slack through your ratchet before you rachet it so that you can get the most travel (aka strap under tension) as possible. ;) For as much as you needed to move those you could use every mm.
Well done, Mark! Can I share one thing out of a recent personal experience? We live in north Texas and our soil is very heavy clay. Almost impossible to garden in, so all of our garden consists of raised beds. This spring my husband installed a fence around our garden (to keep our neighbor’s chickens out, lol) and he built it from 4x4 posts, 12x8 boards and hardware cloth. Initially we assumed due to the heavy clay that we could just dig holes for the posts and backfill with the soil and that would keep everything sturdy. But less than a week later we noticed several posts leaning and with pretty big holes around them where the soil had compacted after a hard rain. We ultimately had to go back and re-dig all the posts and fill with concrete. Now they are so much more sturdy. I hope you will not have to do the same after all that hard work you did on this project.
We have heavy clay here and when putting posts in the ground we only put 1 shovel full at a time and use a rammer to compact the clay really hard before adding more dirt and it works fine but it's hard work
You can make natural concrete without buying or polluting by using clay, sand and rocks (no cement needed) make it into a slush like concrete. Pour it in. Cap with gravel or sod
I really enjoy your videos, they have actually encouraged me to do more here at my place. I lived in cities for most of my life, in later years we had begin gardens, my Wife also did some incredible flower gardens. I recently moved to a hobby farm in Northern British Columbia, CA so seeing your garden with the raised beds convinced me to order a set up, and now that the snow has left the area I will be setting them up. I have many seedlings started inside as well as getting everything else ready to plant later this month. I just wanted to say thank you for making your videos, having a bit of a sense of humour when doing so, keeping them light while sharing your experience. Cheers.
Thank-you so much Mark for your videos. Love this one too. You inspired me to start my first vege garden, it's going great thanks to you and your content. I have also just got my first fruit trees and will be getting more, I also have bought two raised garden beds, 2 greenhouses, an old bath and my backyard is looking fantastic 👌 can't wait to try build a raised trellis over my garden beds now😂my husband is getting into it too, just fantastic for us both. Keeping us fit, outdoors and I'm loving seeing the bees, butterflies coming and native bees from neighbors hive visiting ❤also got a worm farm happening 🎉all because your videos gave me the courage to just start. So Thank-you so much from central Queensland ❤
Pet kookaburra? Wish I had one in GA, but I do have Whippoorwills. Do y'all have Whippoorwills? Whistle whippoorwill, and that's the sound they make every night to dawn. I love "correct the mistakes" videos from any channel. You gotta wonder 'bout those perfect garden, perfect smiley people, never make a mistake perfect me videos. I could never afford those huge raised beds you've got. I'd have to water a lot every day. You probably get a lot more rain than we do though. I'm in zone 7b, North America. I've gardened for 40+ years. Weather used to be more predictable. Chemtrails have altered everything. Peace be with you, brother.
Hi everyone… update on our sweet corn harvest (foam boxes experiment)! 3/4 were perfect…the rest had a kernel here and there on the cob! It was interesting though a bit disappointing as it was so good. I ate a little cob raw…mmmmm! 😋🌽🧈🧂👌
Really really thank you Mark for posting this videos!! I'm passing through a very hard time of my life and you don't know how much you are helping me. I live in north Italy and I have the luck to be owner of a small garden. Inspired by you i'm starting a little vegetable garden and i'm starting to see the first vegetables growing. You seems to me a relly good person and I really like how you behave and talk, you put me in a good mood :D Sorry for my awful english.... THANK YOU SO MUCH! I whish that i can give you a BIG handshake :D
After watching your channel for a couple of years, and trying buckets to grow veggies, i finally bit the bullet and ordered two raised bed planters!! While i was told it would be more than a month, they arrived in only 10 days!! That's a good thing because they came in time for me to prep them, and be ready in time to plant mid May. I hope. Lol Wish me the best of luck on my raised garden adventure!! God bless Mark!
Thank you so much for all your videos! You are the reason I started gardening 3 years ago and now I have several birdies beds and a mini orchard. I love experimenting and seeing what I can get away with. Keep up the great work.
The kookaburra was so curious and un-afraid, you've definitely made a friend, just amazing!! Great work on the garden bed, I love that you teach us from your mistakes not just your successes. Thank you!
Great, great video sir. I think it is important to show how products or ideas have worked (or not work) over time. I don't subscribe to many gardening channels for just this reason. You always have interesting and relevant content....with a little humor mixed in of course. Thank you for what you are doing and how it is helping others be more self sufficient.
having a companion to make you less tired is a bird. That bird is curious.. It really just observes anything and says you work very hard. I have never been near such a wonderful bird that does not try to fly away from you. thank you for sharing
We love your videos, Mark. We just watched the video on how to grow a pineapple tree from the top of a store bought pineapple. When we started the video, my wife said, “We’re not growing a pineapple tree.” By the end of the video, she was grabbing her keys to go to the store to buy a pineapple. 😂
I think your original mistake was not leveling the garden bed. A level bed wouldn’t need deeply sunken posts. Just posts to hold the sides in. I would have recommended you fill the post holes with concrete and add a brick or something to the lower side of the bed, under the galvanized edge. Since it’s still tilted down the hill, it might continue to lean. You probably just bought yourself some time but you might need to do this again. 😖. I love the trellis.
I was thinking the same. A valiant effort and I hope it lasts but time will tell. As well, I think the original interior across braces were probably helping a lot, to a) keep the sides together and reduce bowing and b) help hold the low side up. I think it would have fallen a lot faster without those braces
concrete is the worst building material in the world... Not only is it extreamly co2 e heavy in production, it uses tonnes of sand, which is often made by predator coral-killing mining...
@@m_lies "concrete is the worst building material in the world... Not only is it extreamly co2 e heavy in production, it uses tonnes of sand, which is often made by predator coral-killing mining..." CO2 is not a pollution. CO2 is a necessary nutrient that enable plants to grow. You're anti-foliage stance needs to be classified as an act of war against humanity. You environmental activists are too contrary you yourselves and true science to take serious. Despite the available scientific evidence, you still push electric cars and green energy tech even though the scientific evidence has proven that it takes more CO2 production to build an electric car by virtue of the fact that it takes more energy to mine the materials to produce those components. Every new electric car sitting on the lot has more CO2 points on it than a new internal combustion engine powered car and it takes 5-10 years for the ICE to catch up in CO2 production.
Thanks for sharing your mistakes and inventions, the people, who never try, will not learn or gain a goal! Pssst: Burned wood rods for poles wouldn't rot.
G'day Everyone, my shoulders are sore, and this old knuckle dragger has a few blisters, but I really enjoyed this project (including the editing etc) - it was a ton of fun. I hope you are all "getting into it." Thanks for your ongoing support! Cheers :)
Have you ever tried a shallow raised garden bed with just coco coir? I am trying this year!
my chickens think I'm digging for them...
Loved the editing! You could always pay for a few new tools by making commercials
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos, especially telling us what's gone wrong and how you've fixed it! Love your work Mark! Thanks for sharing all of this!
while using boards or a thick metal flat bar on the outside walls as a brace you could run a long threaded rod through and bolt from the outside to keep the walls from bowing out like some of the raised beds you can buy online. could also use angled iron on the corners instead of wood that would rot or put the wood on the outside of he bed to brace the corners. I am thinking about making some beds out of cement blocks that should last the rest of my life.
Lol, that bird is something else! He hangs around like a dog!
Love that the kookaburra was just hanging out and watching without flying away at 12:44.
Mark sir, never stop showing the realistic aspects of gardening, good, bad, or indifferent! Great content, sir, and much appreciated!
Start watching for the gardening tips, but stay for the bird. 10/10 feathered assistant.
Love the video, those posts are super neat. glad the bed is looking better!
I like watching real people who make mistakes. So many people on UA-cam pretend to be perfect at everything and it’s not realistic. They make me feel like giving up because nothing ever goes right for me lol. 😂 Great video.
Yes, I feel the same way, not about giving up but about how perfect everything seems. I take all this perfection with a grain of salt, do my best and enjoy the process 😁
Yes, Mark is very "real" with what goes on. Both the successes and mistakes get shared so we can all learn!
Also, Mark has a forum with people most happy to answer questions you may have along the way ;)
www.selfsufficientculture.com/
It's a lot better than those videos that tell us we've been doing everything wrong forever...
Everything is a learning lesson, and everyone’s experiences are different! Giving up shouldn’t be an option, you’ll get it right eventually!
You're right! I've stopped watching certain gardening channels because everything looks so neat and perfect it's not possible to reproduce nor is it realistic for most people.
LOL! That bird is so curious.. He's literally just watching whatever you do.
I've never been that close to a Wild Bird, that didn't try to fly away instantly.
The prospect of a feed overrides their fear, especially if they're local and have become used to you.
Well I cannot say for sure. but I had simular experiences in the garden I've been working. When doing digging, and moving things always robins showed up, up to 2 meters away. They know somehow that theu can find worms and little insects very easily then.
I have crows that talk to me. I leave them flawed fruit and veggies. There are usually a few crows cawing at me when I garden. Pretty intelligent animals.
@@deaddoll1361 And I've read for "wild birds" Kookaburras are pretty fear-less when it comes to being around People. Here in America I guess our equivalent would be the Seagulls, the prospect of a meal is well-enough to put fear aside and come and try to chat me up for a piece of my lunch.
(I've been known to give-in, which doesn't help.)
My sister in Australia has local kookaburra, cockatoos and other parakeet types she feeds so they will come right up.
Here in America in Florida, my other sister has egrets and blue herons that will tap on the glass looking for a treat.
In Virginia, the cat birds are friendly opportunists who will follow you around the yard to supervise and the wrens spend their time fussing at whatever you do.
Some kinds of birds can be very bold but they certainly add to the joy.
Love the kookaburra supervisor! 🙂 He well and truly knows that you find his worms for him 🙂 When I was a kid the magpies would come down to eat the worms that were exposed during weeding. The galah liked it so much that she would dig the weeded spot more to find more worms for the magpies.
I have to say, these DIY gardening and learning from mistakes videos are some of the most high quality content you put out. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Andy! Cheers :)
I love your vibe and your work ethic. Fixing our mistakes is how we learn. Sometimes it's an easy fix and sometimes it's not. But I love how hard you're always willing to work to accomplish the task at hand.
Thank you Robert! Cheers :)
Love the Kookaburra ❤
I love the height of you raised beds. Mine are a lot shorter, but the day is coming when I'll need to stop bending so much!
Love the curious Kooka. He's so friendly.
I'm surprised you didn't create steps before you put the garden beds in so they were level to start with.
Hard wood easy to grow for posts if you use gums and they grow really fast.
The kookaburras got you figured as a soft touch, I bet he loves being right next to you when you're working in the garden turning the soil over to get a few worms lol.
Have a ripper mate!
Living Legend. The Bob Ross of gardening 👍🏼
At 5:06 I just HAD to skip to the end of the video to see no tears! 👏👏👏
Man! We put our garden in a bad spot, and now we don't have tools to move it. It just goes to show, it pays to do research! Cool video Mark!
Same here😂
Use a car jack to push sideways if you don't have a rachet to pull with, rachet straps are cheap tho.
Thanks Mark for keeping it real, showing all the aspects of gardening.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos, especially telling us what's gone wrong and how you've fixed it! Love your work Mark! Thanks for sharing all of this!
The look on Mark's face as he started out was priceless. Frankly, this made my day because I have suffered from the flooding rains we had here in California which made everything grow out of control after years of drought.
My garden has wild grass and weeds five feet high, and while using a cane at 73 years old, I believe I know what hard work feels like. I love the DIY video. Sure need more like this one. 🫡
My favorite part is the cool bird I wish some would hang out with me while I was doing stuff
That kookaburra loves you! Thank you very much for the all the new ideas! Keep up the good work!
Scrolling to find this comment 😂
Howdyyawl from the land down under.You are a passionate gardener, growing & eating your produce. A healthy lifestyle. Note" when handling mulch, soil,green waste, must use gloves. All plant waste is toxic to humans.I used to run a gardening service before I retired. Otherwise continue, your going great. Enjoy the fruits of your labour so to speek😅😊
Mark, so appreciate that you take your mistakes and turn them into a teaching moment for us all. Mucho thanks from Texas!
G'day Janet! Thank you and all the best :)
Texas USA or Australia?
What a delightful dude, if I had to be stranded on a island, he seems like the type of personality one would want as part of a community making a go of it.
We love watching you, here in Kansas! Thanks from B's Gardens!
Thank you very much! Sorry for the late reply... All the best for 2024 :)
When I built my beds on a substantial hill I actually made the downhill side taller and I try to angle the wood along the hill. I probably looked like a weirdo using a piece of lumber and a level to figure out how extra tall that side needed to be! I also put a couple 2ft lengths of rebar on the inside of the uphill wall about 1-1.5ft down to mitigate the slight concern I had about them sliding down the hill.
Good advice Mike! Thanks for sharing mate and all the best :)
@@Selfsufficientme My only recommendation is adding Anchors plates on bars attached to the inner walls. Then angled 45° downward so they with be planted firmly. That way, when a wall wants to fall outward it will have to pull on the dirt inside.
On a side note, I'd like to thank you for all the amazing content and info you provide on gardening! You are doing an amazing job👍🏻
Becky from Acre Homestead built her raised beds on a sloop. you should check it out it's really nice.
"Get out of the way, or I'll stand in you." 😆 That is a bold bird!
I LOVE the overhead trellis idea. For cucumbers, that can grow and grow and grow, this is a fantastic idea to keep them out of the way. Same thing with sweet potato vines. I'll be doing this for sure!
I am one to get creative and thrifty in the garden so it’s always a treat when folks share their DIY triumphs and failures. I always say I do things the hardest way possible….but also the cheapest 😆 And that’s valuable to me!
Same here!! 😂
It takes a real man to admit he is wrong but is willing learn from his mistakes, and come back with a solution and also give sound advice. Kudos mate and I await your next video.👊👍
I don't know why I just now subbed. You continually put out amazing content that is detailed, follows a great format, and is easy to understand and consume. I wish I had your drive. I have ideas I want to share, but no desire to do the work!
Love the heroic music and the humor intended. You’re an inspiration. For the post hole, what I’ve seen and done is dig 2 ft deeper than your intended depth for the pole. Place gravel and then your pole/post. then fill with quick setting concrete (10-20 minutes) followed by water and let sit for a day. Don’t forget to support the beam with something to keep it leveled
I was coming here to make the same suggestion. You get a lot more stability in these kinds of situations with quickcrete around the post.
That sounds like a good sturdy way to put a post in. Thanks for sharing mate! Cheers :)
Work fascinates me - I can sit for hours & watch it.
Celery has 700 seeds in a packet and they’re so tiny I figured they’d have poor germination, so I put about 10 seeds in each 6 cell. I’ve 70 plants now all over my garden. In flower pots, raised beds, against the house 🏠🌱🤣
😂😂😂 I think you'll need a video now on how to store celery long term. 😂😅
Celery is pretty resilient to being separated as seedlings. Make sure the seed cell is moist and then separate as you would with onion starts.
@@steveegbert7429 I did. I started them December 31st so they got their own cells in February, then about 10 of them sprouted a second celery. It’s true they are resilient being transplanted, I don’t think I’ve had any die. Just have to keep them well watered.
@@Gardeningchristine That is true. I started several this year and only had one or two sprout and was about ready to give up. Then, after three weeks, I have more sprouting in the last few days!
Brilliant restoration work in your garden! It wasn’t easy. Thank You. ~Sharon from Florida
Mark you are such a very hard worker, you make me tired just watching you work! haha just midding, I also never stop working. If I don’t do it it won’t get done.
And the bird is stealing the show. Your videos are amazing. I will be starting my garden when we move. Thanks for all the amazing videos. Excellent information.
With cantilevered posts, atleast 1/3 needs to be in the ground. If the planting bed is 900mm high, then you need atleast 450mm in ground. Also, to make the timber last longer, use it on the outside with metal on the inside ~ this is also structurally stronger as the pressure of the soil is pushing the metal against the posts rather relying on metal screw heads
Should the original rectangular timber been rotated 90's so the longer length would be resisting the main forces?
@@edevans5991 If you were setting them in concrete, yes.
Thanks for sharing your experience and tips, William. Cheers :)
@@robertkubrick3738 no, even without the strength is proportional to its depth, he has it right. I think they were designed to be minimal as possible so they didn't get in the way over rigidity.
the dad i never had :) cheers for the info and ideas. your channel is gold when it comes to gardening info !
Thanks for your gardening insights! At 71 I don’t have a garden any longer but still enjoy the fun and growth of a good garden. I have 43 indoor houseplants here in Canada and they are loving the Spring Eastern sun! Have a great day! 😀🌞❤️👍🙏🏻
I wish my husband had a 3rd of your spirit and love [seems you love it] of creating beds, gardening and growing food. This looks like a heck of a job, well done!
Thanks for sharing.
You did a great job on your fix Mark. It means a lot that you teach us by your mistakes.
I got into it.
Take care.
The kooka loves his new perch! lol
I think you've been adopted, Mark. Great fixer upper job on the saggy bed!
That's one brave and curious kookaburra, it stuck around for awhile there..
At the end of the day you're probably better off leveling your building surface so you're not constantly fighting gravity. Glad this worked out though. Thanks for all the videos.
I always like seeing all your videos. But that magpie was so persistent! True plucky comic relief! 😂
I have small lizards that come to me in groups and watch the soil when I might turn a little. I have had them literally run down my arm when a juicy bug appears! I hope to get that on video one day!
Great job recovering that bed!
Being in the northern hemisphere, I just got my raised bed partially planted yesterday from seedlings I had started. Mostly peppers with a couple tomatoes. I am a pubescens variety pepper lover. I haven't grown them for many years, as keeping them alive through the winter can be tough. I would grow individual giant rocoto plants in 100 gallon horse troughs and that is the minimum size for those plants. Normally the plants would have been out 4 to 6 weeks ago, but our spring has been fairly cold and wet.
When I built my beds with treated lumber, I added a plastic liner inside. I read that was a good way to close the risk gap. The plastic has kind of sloughed off over the years but it's about reducing a low risk, not about eliminating it. If I had already built my beds before I read about the possible risk of leeching, I wouldn't have done anything about it. But when you're building new it's definitely worth a bit of extra work.
the treated material nowadays are safe to plant vegetables being mercury and other chemicals have been taken out of there process to treat the wood
Plastique is a good idea;find the heaviest black plastic ya can find...
OMG that kookaburra really loves you. You need to embrace that love. Bird love is like no other love from a pet. That is a really special bond.
If my husband can't fix it with zippy ties or glue, it's not worth fixing 😂
Glad you got your garden bed sorted out 👍🏼
I'm trying my hand at a garden this year. I come from a long line of agricultural brown thumbs (circa 1870 in Oz) and I can't manage to keep any plant alive past 4 weeks. But, this time I've been doing a lot of research for my sub-tropical zone and watching way too many gardening videos, including yours, that my family are becoming concerned 😂
I love my zippie ties too 😂😂
Make Sure the Zippy Ties Are UV Resistant...
Welcome to The Kookaburra Show.... and a bit of garden stuff!
I love how that cheeky kookaburra kept you company across the entire process! 🤣
I’m glad that I am seeing this video now because I’m going to start building some raised beds here soon.
Thanks Mark I really love the channel! I'm 16 and live I Perth.
So funny, I’ve seen that bird in so many of your videos he loves you😂
I appreciate all of the great information your videos provide! I live in the U.S. and I enjoyed seeing the kookaburra.
Same here, in New Jersey! We used to sing that Kookaburra song as kids!
@@kele1264 I am in Millville NJ!
Cool bird friend yo have there. Its nice watching you talk to the bird. Thanks for the video, "Inspired" got some ideas on building my own raised bed in Norway.
I love that feeling of pride that comes at the end of a project like this. 👍 Good job mate.
You can use the tamping end of a crow bar to drive the soil in to the point it's like concrete, and you can use this method to straighten the post by tamping in the opposite side to where you want it to go. Thats how I put in most of the posts that I do.
That bird made my day he loved watching you work! About to plant some mint, basil, thyme, and sage then in another plot some red onions, and finally some cucumbers!! Got my 8 chickens in their diy coop I built. I love love love watching you videos. I'm getting into it!!!!!
Really great video, I learn so much watching your channel, thank you. Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa
that bit with the kookaburra is honestly your most australian moment yet
Love your little gardening partner (kukoo) 😊
Thank you for this information. I will look for the plastic-coated posts here in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri USA.
I'm in New Jersey, and I'll be searching for them also. I visited the Ozarks many years ago. So beautiful!
gotta love your little bird friend
Mark, Woodshield looks perfect for building support structures for Dragonfruits. Always worried about using pine due to termite/rotting issues, so this looks very suitable
5:51 - just one point...make sure you pull as much slack through your ratchet before you rachet it so that you can get the most travel (aka strap under tension) as possible. ;) For as much as you needed to move those you could use every mm.
Your DIY have inspired me for years 😊
Good deal on raised beds right now on Amazon so perfect timing for me😊God bless and here’s to a plentiful season ❤
That bird is fearless
Well done, Mark! Can I share one thing out of a recent personal experience? We live in north Texas and our soil is very heavy clay. Almost impossible to garden in, so all of our garden consists of raised beds. This spring my husband installed a fence around our garden (to keep our neighbor’s chickens out, lol) and he built it from 4x4 posts, 12x8 boards and hardware cloth. Initially we assumed due to the heavy clay that we could just dig holes for the posts and backfill with the soil and that would keep everything sturdy. But less than a week later we noticed several posts leaning and with pretty big holes around them where the soil had compacted after a hard rain. We ultimately had to go back and re-dig all the posts and fill with concrete. Now they are so much more sturdy. I hope you will not have to do the same after all that hard work you did on this project.
We have heavy clay here and when putting posts in the ground we only put 1 shovel full at a time and use a rammer to compact the clay really hard before adding more dirt and it works fine but it's hard work
You can make natural concrete without buying or polluting by using clay, sand and rocks (no cement needed) make it into a slush like concrete. Pour it in. Cap with gravel or sod
Hi and greetings from Sweden ! Tough job you did there. Love the little curious friend who is with you most of the time.
I really enjoy your videos, they have actually encouraged me to do more here at my place. I lived in cities for most of my life, in later years we had begin gardens, my Wife also did some incredible flower gardens. I recently moved to a hobby farm in Northern British Columbia, CA so seeing your garden with the raised beds convinced me to order a set up, and now that the snow has left the area I will be setting them up. I have many seedlings started inside as well as getting everything else ready to plant later this month. I just wanted to say thank you for making your videos, having a bit of a sense of humour when doing so, keeping them light while sharing your experience. Cheers.
Your little "supervisor" was hilarious! Thanks for the video, Mark!
👍 Thanks! It's always good to learn from other's mistakes! Thanks for sharing! 🙂 👍
Great advice for building!! We are planning raised beds and I will keep this in mind for sure. Love the kookaburra lol!! 🥰
Mark, I do appreciate all your videos.
I’ve learned a lot from you and I’ve been gardening for almost 50 years.
The hero music at the digging. Yes, it is him, our superhero from the garden... Gardemike!
Thank-you so much Mark for your videos. Love this one too. You inspired me to start my first vege garden, it's going great thanks to you and your content. I have also just got my first fruit trees and will be getting more, I also have bought two raised garden beds, 2 greenhouses, an old bath and my backyard is looking fantastic 👌 can't wait to try build a raised trellis over my garden beds now😂my husband is getting into it too, just fantastic for us both. Keeping us fit, outdoors and I'm loving seeing the bees, butterflies coming and native bees from neighbors hive visiting ❤also got a worm farm happening 🎉all because your videos gave me the courage to just start. So Thank-you so much from central Queensland ❤
Pet kookaburra? Wish I had one in GA, but I do have Whippoorwills. Do y'all have Whippoorwills? Whistle whippoorwill, and that's the sound they make every night to dawn. I love "correct the mistakes" videos from any channel. You gotta wonder 'bout those perfect garden, perfect smiley people, never make a mistake perfect me videos. I could never afford those huge raised beds you've got. I'd have to water a lot every day. You probably get a lot more rain than we do though. I'm in zone 7b, North America. I've gardened for 40+ years. Weather used to be more predictable. Chemtrails have altered everything. Peace be with you, brother.
Hi everyone… update on our sweet corn harvest (foam boxes experiment)! 3/4 were perfect…the rest had a kernel here and there on the cob! It was interesting though a bit disappointing as it was so good. I ate a little cob raw…mmmmm! 😋🌽🧈🧂👌
THE BIRD IS SO CUTE 🕊🕊🕊🦆🦆
Really really thank you Mark for posting this videos!! I'm passing through a very hard time of my life and you don't know how much you are helping me. I live in north Italy and I have the luck to be owner of a small garden. Inspired by you i'm starting a little vegetable garden and i'm starting to see the first vegetables growing. You seems to me a relly good person and I really like how you behave and talk, you put me in a good mood :D Sorry for my awful english.... THANK YOU SO MUCH! I whish that i can give you a BIG handshake :D
Your English is good! 👍
Hindsight is a wonderful planning tool
Nice job. You are an inspiration to those who watch your channel.
and very funny person..
Is that a kookaburra 2:06? I love them. You inspired me to always grow a little food in my yard. Thanks mark.
After watching your channel for a couple of years, and trying buckets to grow veggies, i finally bit the bullet and ordered two raised bed planters!! While i was told it would be more than a month, they arrived in only 10 days!! That's a good thing because they came in time for me to prep them, and be ready in time to plant mid May. I hope. Lol
Wish me the best of luck on my raised garden adventure!!
God bless Mark!
That kookaburra is gorgeous
You need to create permanent garden beds in stone/concrete. Make the place look good as well!
That intro got me. No truer words. I'm not perfect at what I do and what I know but I try so my kids have a good example to go by and do better.
Love your channel buddy! You are an absolute inspiration!
I'm surprised how brave that bird is. You're hammering and it flies right over no worries.
Thank you so much for all your videos! You are the reason I started gardening 3 years ago and now I have several birdies beds and a mini orchard. I love experimenting and seeing what I can get away with. Keep up the great work.
The kookaburra was so curious and un-afraid, you've definitely made a friend, just amazing!! Great work on the garden bed, I love that you teach us from your mistakes not just your successes. Thank you!
Great, great video sir. I think it is important to show how products or ideas have worked (or not work) over time. I don't subscribe to many gardening channels for just this reason. You always have interesting and relevant content....with a little humor mixed in of course. Thank you for what you are doing and how it is helping others be more self sufficient.
having a companion to make you less tired is a bird. That bird is curious.. It really just observes anything and says you work very hard.
I have never been near such a wonderful bird that does not try to fly away from you. thank you for sharing
We love your videos, Mark. We just watched the video on how to grow a pineapple tree from the top of a store bought pineapple. When we started the video, my wife said, “We’re not growing a pineapple tree.” By the end of the video, she was grabbing her keys to go to the store to buy a pineapple. 😂
I loved that little bird that was hanging out with you, watching you shovel dirt around
I think your original mistake was not leveling the garden bed. A level bed wouldn’t need deeply sunken posts. Just posts to hold the sides in.
I would have recommended you fill the post holes with concrete and add a brick or something to the lower side of the bed, under the galvanized edge. Since it’s still tilted down the hill, it might continue to lean. You probably just bought yourself some time but you might need to do this again. 😖. I love the trellis.
I was thinking the same. A valiant effort and I hope it lasts but time will tell.
As well, I think the original interior across braces were probably helping a lot, to a) keep the sides together and reduce bowing and b) help hold the low side up. I think it would have fallen a lot faster without those braces
concrete is the worst building material in the world... Not only is it extreamly co2 e heavy in production, it uses tonnes of sand, which is often made by predator coral-killing mining...
@@m_lies 🤯
@@m_lies
"concrete is the worst building material in the world... Not only is it extreamly co2 e heavy in production, it uses tonnes of sand, which is often made by predator coral-killing mining..."
CO2 is not a pollution.
CO2 is a necessary nutrient that enable plants to grow.
You're anti-foliage stance needs to be classified as an act of war against humanity.
You environmental activists are too contrary you yourselves and true science to take serious. Despite the available scientific evidence, you still push electric cars and green energy tech even though the scientific evidence has proven that it takes more CO2 production to build an electric car by virtue of the fact that it takes more energy to mine the materials to produce those components. Every new electric car sitting on the lot has more CO2 points on it than a new internal combustion engine powered car and it takes 5-10 years for the ICE to catch up in CO2 production.
@@trollolol705 no, not really, there is a big difference between using a Truck or a bicycle, if the bicycle is more than enough to do the job.
Thanks for sharing your mistakes and inventions, the people, who never try, will not learn or gain a goal! Pssst: Burned wood rods for poles wouldn't rot.
Has that kookaburra grown to expect grubs whenever you dig up your garden beds? 😂