Raised Bed Garden Tour (our garden REDEMPTION story!)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Come see our DIY raised bed garden! (aka our garden redemption story!)
Last year we built a unique set of homemade raised garden beds and I get a ton of questions from raised bed gardening enthusiasts every time I post about them! Here are tips for building raised garden beds of your own.
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How do you garden? Raised beds? In-ground? Containers? Tell me about it below!
Ya bind weed; the gardener's nightmare. Training them up spikes or poles is a good start then take a fine brush and paint the leaves with round up or some strong weed killer. Bind weed can grow 20' deep, travel under roads and choke out your garden and your neighbors, and if you pull them out they will fork off, no pun on words and now you have 3 or more growing out of where you pulled it.
We talked to Mark Cullen up here in Canada and he advises to grow up a stake or post and paint the leaves with weed killer will travel down and kill off the vine. Be diligent painting them every day set aside an hour each day if you have the time. I've had my day with bind weed.
Paint them with vinegar. It works. Blessings
I do two things for my bindweed problems here in Colorado. First and free is to pour boiling water onto the base of the vine, and anywhere you want it to die. Boiling water will kill just about everything and highly stresses whatever it doesn't take out. The second thing you can try is a mixture of epson salt white vinegar and dish soap, this will unbalance the plant and surrounding soil. It also will dissipate within a couple days so you can still use that area for planting later.
I really love that you are making videos now, Jill! Your garden looks great. I am at the point now that I ALWAYS cover all of my brassica's with floating row cover because of the cabbage fly moths. It works really well. XO Andrea
I really need to get some row covers!
Hello, love your videos. We got compost from a neighbor 4 years ago that had that sprayed hay in it too. It was a sad year in the garden, It has recovered now. An idea on bind weed, my husband Jon researched and found a way to get them without back hoeing the the whole area. It takes time and patience and requires buying that dreaded round-up or similar product. You cut back the weed to the ground, insert the remaining stem into a cottage cheese type container with a small hole in the lid. The container has the weed killer in it and it feeds it back to the roots. It takes time, patience and diligence, but it worked for us in the corner of our pasture. Just an idea...hope it helps.
use tarp for 10 - 15 days cover it and remove . you'll get lot of weak germinated birdseed/ remove them and you can plant !
repeat it after every cycle of planting /manuring
With just a little fence above the raised beds, you should be able to keep some kinds of chickens in the garden area. They will weed for you around the beds and keep slugs and other bugs away.
Thanks for the full tour, Jill! Having seen them on IG for so long, it's great to see in real life!
Glad you enjoyed it-- thanks for watching! :)
one question how do you keep the pocket gophers,moles, & voles and other 4 legged creatures out of your garden boxes. I live in northeast north dakota on 8.3 acres in the middle of a farmers field. I own the 8.3 acres but the rest of the 160 acres belongs to the farmer.the prairie's of north dakota are riddled with these pests. I have been in a war with pocket gophers,prairie dogs, moles and voles for the past 3 years and they won the war paws down. i want to try raised garden bed again but I need a way to keep them out along with my cats,dogs, and other 4 legged creatures. do you have any ideas, along with keeping the cost down and also i am partially handicapped, so i can not run a tiller and pull weeds unless the weeds are controlled, via raised garden box. thankyou. Patty.🥰🥰😊😊🙂🙂💖💖
Love the look of your raised beds
You can get rid of those weeds in your isle pretty easily, including the Bind Weed. Forget about weed block fabric. Doesn't work very well and it is not natural. Lay down a few layers of cardboard, the key to killing the weeds is put in a bunch of hot manure into the isles. The hotter the better. 6-12" worth at least. Then top with some wood chips. I only use wood chips and manure on my place for the exact issues you had with the hay being contaminated with chemicals. This method will kill any weed, tree, etc. Then the next year you can shovel the beautiful soil out of the isles and into the bed for that season. Just repeat every 6 months and your good to go. The cardboard only needs to be applied the first time. I didn't even bother with it here, but your situation might need that extra boost of coverage. Hope this helps!
Hey there! Love your videos!! Not sure if you're aware - you probably are - but those 'trees' that are growing persistently like weeds along your garden beds are locust trees, and they will not stop. Their root system underground is literally a web of connected roots that shoot up trees wherever they decided to pop up. I have them here too and they're impossible to kill, and they're thorny!! You have to get under the dirt and actually cut and pull up the thick roots to have a chance at being rid of them. Be as persistent as them and you'll have a chance!! :) I love your garden beds, looking to do something similar this coming spring! :)
Yes, raised beds are best. You will save your "back" down the road, I know I've prefer raised beds. I've used cinder block as well. You can get cinder block at Lowe's or home depot (home improvement stores).
Contaminated from the hay? Its 1am and I feel like running out to my garden to pull the hay off my raised beds. I bought hay from a grocery store last week. they sell hay every year in October I guess for fall decorations. Ug. I'll have to get he hay off tomorrow for sure. Thank you for sharing your story.
I love your raised beds. I bet those metal panels last forever. I don’t think you’ll ever get rid of bindweed if you let it get that big. It looks big enough to flower there which is a disaster in the garden. Persistent weeding is the only thing that helped me. We had a huge problem in the community garden with bindweed. I covered A large area of bindweed infested garden in black tarp for one year. That knocked it back quite a bit. But I still have to pull a little bit of it. My thinking is you can’t let it photosynthesize to store energy. So you have to keep the green part pulled. My understanding is if you let it get longer than 3 inches it starts to store energy. I read where the roots can go down some ridiculous depth, like 20 feet. I find that hard to believe but it is a very persistent weed. I wonder if you took a flame weeder to it and kept it up a couple times a week if that wouldn’t knock it back and eventually kill it if you kept it up for a year. Seems like that heavy duty metal could take a little flame weeding. Obviously would have to do it after you watered your gardenand would have to have the hose on the ready in case something caught fire.
Really good points, Joan! I definitely need to pull the bindweed faster. I've also heard it can have crazy-deep roots. Maybe a flame weeder would be a good option for us!
Brilliant on the material used for the beds and your watering system!
Thanks lady! Christian gets all the credit for that, ha!
To get rid of bindweed (a biannual), you have to expose the whole root before the plant flowers, dry it, and burn it. As long as there are seeds, you will have to repeat this process, which can take several years.
Thanks for the info Miki!
@@theprairiehomestead yep. Like you, I'm an Idaho girl (from Eagle, before it became a golfing retirement suburb of Boise), and bindweed is my lifelong bane. Now I'm rebuilding a farm in east-central Ohio...where the bindweed has run amok for 30 years with no intervention. I feel your pain!
~~~ My friend you gave me the link to come over here from your other video , and I am glad . Your garden set-up looks wonderful . Thank you for making your videos my friend...
Have you tried a sacrificial veggie area so they stay off of YOURs?
I keep a few tomatoes and move the big caterpillars to those.
I've always struggled with raising things in pots also! So now the only thing I raise in pots are herbs. They seem to do okay. I'm also slowly converting from a Ruth Stout deep mulch system to a raised bed system. Love yours! Gonna be looking for some of those panels around here, don't think I've ever noticed them.
Great job..I am surprised your fence is as short as it is...in Lander...yes WY in town...I would not be able to keep the deer out with that height of fence..like what you are doing..somethings.. grows somethings don't ...it is all good..as long as you have more than ONE THING GROWING!
Deer really aren't a problem here-- we have them close, but they mostly stay in the small patches of trees. We do get antelope, but they are too flighty to attempt to get in a garden. :)
Thank you so much for this tour and all the helpful guides and related articles. Cheers, Ardith
Thanks for watching-- and you are very welcome !
Great video and even more awesome is your dog!
Elizabeth L. Johnson said, Be sure and keep the wood chips on your paths at least 4 to 6 inches thick to discourage weeds. I noticed I was smiling watching your video. We had to leave town for work in the most critical months of gardening, here in north California: April and May. I came back to 4 ft tall weeds that I've never seen and experienced before. So tough that a garden fork do not move them. I will have to use a chainsaw; seriously! and then my husband will use a loader with forks for the roots in the ground; all because I didn't have six inches of wood chips and didn't get to weed before we left. Wonderful and uplifting to see your fresh air and green, organized garden, children, and chickens! We're looking at less than one mile visibility for several days after the Carr Fire.
Yes, I definitely need more chips-- we had at least 4 inches, but they are settling a bit, and the weeds are still coming up on the edges. I can relate to the monster weeds! So sorry you are having to deal with all that smoke!
Hey lady! Wonderful looking garden! I would like to know if you will share the length and width of your exterior garden fence? Thanks! Michelle 😀
I love what you used for raised beds. For now we do in ground, but may do raise beds in the future as we age and the knees start to give out! :)
Love it, great job
I have hard time growing things in pots too!!
I love this video! good job!!! also, someday, I will have a garden slightly like yours.... lol
Thanks Tessie! And yes you will!
Have you heard of semi, underground gardening? I believe it would be great for your area.
I love that you are YouTubing. I might be crazy but I like those weeds climbing up your fence. They add some character.
Honestly, part of me loves the look of them (I adore vines), but they are insanely invasive, so I have to pull them... However, if they weren't so nasty, I'd totally leave them!
What a lovely garden and home! Where do you buy the metal for your raised beds?
Found your video. Really beautiful raised garden. Don't worry about weeds. Try putting "hay" around plants. In Florida we have weeds, also store garbage bags plastic put down first, then gay over plastic. We do this lot with growing strawberries.
P.s. Don't forget to leave your "walkways" so that you can get your vegetables. Hop it helps. p.s.s. Make sure your "hay" doesn't have chemicals. bye.
You can cut out some of that greenery on your tomatoes. The plant has to produce enough energy to support growing tomatoes AND the greenery. Plus it kets the air flow better.
Beautiful garden!
Love the garden tour! Any tips on where to source the bridge decking?
I think any more specialty type of building store (not your typical Lowes or Home Depot) might be able to help you find them!
@@theprairiehomestead your raised beds rock! I wish I can find those panels. I called couple of them (Portland, OR) they have no clue...
Where did you purchase the metal siding?
1. I love your hat!
2. I love your beautiful garden 😘
Thanks friend! xoxo
Try a little white vinegar on the bindweed root
We did four 8 x 4 raised beds this year out of pine (cedar & red wood was way too costly). Just curious what the cost per bed was for you with the heavy steel & redwood. I wish I had more beds. Maybe next year.
If I recall, I believe they were $80-$90 each, which was still cheaper than the same size out of redwood or cedar wood.
Hi there i just found you channel - love it :D I was wonderng about the homemade pestrepellant that you talked about - can you share that by any chance? Thank you so much
I noticed in the semi-aerial shot where the camera spanned across your beds (around 6:55) that you have three large barrels. Are these water barrels for your irrigation system or fuel barrels? If for water, are these rain barrels or do you fill manually?
Those are actually fuel tanks. :) Our closest gas station burned down a few years back and just barely re-opened, so we have the tanks to fill up vehicles and tractors.
Wow, those decking panels are petty pricey! Do you have a source that’s less than full retail.
Your garden is absolutely gorgeous!!!🌱🌶🥒🥦🍆🥕🌽🍅🐞🌷
Beautiful garden!!! I'm wondering if the metal gets super hot in the summer? We have wooden beds and I've been thinking about replacing them with metal, but I'm worried they will get burning hot.
Tara TreeLove definitely not here in Florida
Use a board long enough to span the distance to create a situation so you can sit and garden. Easier on the back
I have bindweed overtaking my garden too :( Hope someone gives you a tip that works, and if they do PLEASE write a post about it!
For sure! I'm hoping to find some sort of strategy-- it is horrible stuff!
Yeah it is. My raised beds are cinder block 1 block high, and the stupid bindweed has now overtaken 2 of my 8 beds. I even resorted to Roundup weed and grass killer a week before planting my garden, it looked like it died, and it STILL revived! I pull it, it survives. I swear, it's trying to deliberately thwart my gardening plans :(
Elizabeth L. Johnson said, I'd rather pull and spray vinegar than use a poison. Can also use 6ml billboard plastic as described at www.minibedsonplastic.com to cover garden paths.
For your paths tey putting cardborddown the put a heavier contractors weed barrior down. For your weeds look in jerry bakers books he has alot of books on how to get rid of werds with things you have in your house NO CHEMICALS. Mybane is creeping charlie or ground ivy. Hope this could help you.And i love the raised garden. I follow the sqare foot garden by Mel Bartholomew. Your library will have a copy.
Nice and beautiful garden, well managed.which country you belong to
Cinnamon for mild
I like look of galvanized containers for plants but heard that it leaches out poisoning soil, wouldn't any metal be suspect?
too little and its zinc and iron - not toxic and does not rot like wood
Thank you for a wonderful video. Wondering if link to garden beds works because I don't receive the email? Tried 3 times.
Hey Monique-- sorry for the trouble! It should be working- have you checked your spam/promotions folders by chance?
I'm curious about the cost to buy materials to build the beds.
Where can you buy the metal panels you built your raised beds with?
You might be able to find them at a specialty building supply store (not Lowes or Home Depot)
Do you stay away from hay now or just ask if it has been sprayed?
Protect your cabbage , Brussel Sprouts with a net, Proteknet insect netting. .........................................Ken&Beverly.
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Do you add any other mix other than soil? Do you add any natural fertilizers?
Add manure (cow , sheep/goat, horse) 40% + 30% leaf/food waste
rest soil to make good fertile soil
I bet just laying an old screen or screens over top of your beds (especially those carrots that take longer to germinate & are at risk of chicken invasion) might prevent the invasion long enough to let good germination happen.
Yes! I finally laid some hardware cloth over some of my other freshly planted beds-- just wish I had thought to do with with the carrots!
Elizabeth L. Johnson said, Folks can use shade-discs for carrot seed protection, and speedy seed germination, from Herrick Kimball's book, Planet Whizbang's Idea Book for Gardeners, www.planetwhizbang.com Extremely effective!!!!!!
I need that book!
Where did you the metal material for raised beds
I covered our garden in hay last fall, and now I am totally paranoid. Yikes.
Where do you live,and zone?
Lovely 🥒
I wish I had the kind of money it would take to have a garden like that.
It doesn't take too much money to have large garden, assuming you already have he space. We use reclaimed wood from construction sites for the beds instead of the beautiful metal panels. Often, homeowners get rid of block when rehabbing a home. We've gotten loads of those free from various websites like Facebook and Craigslist. Keep an eye out for opportunities to recycle materials to create your garden.
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For bindweed, we have found that our rabbits love to eat bindweed and if you have a rabbit tractor, you can let them eat the bindweed down. That should weaken the plant significantly and provide free food for a possible meat source. By the looks of your raised bed setup, if you had it fenced around the perimeter with chicken wire and put some brick in front of it to keep the rabbits from digging under, they might be able to be free ranged without getting into your raised beds.
Ah, man! I did the same thing this year, planted my tomatoes way too close together! I am going to try hog panel trellises next year to force myself to space them and allow them to grow more up than out, (hopefully!). Love your videos and all your hard work, Jill. Thank you for sharing your homestead with the world. :) Cheers from Oregon!
Really enjoy Your channel : ) You are so Real : )
As for flowers, I do flowers in my raised beds as well. I just make sure that anything I grow is edible. I love the beauty they bring but feel that if I’m going to put time into growing it, it needs to have a benefit other than beauty, we have some very colorful salads in the summer as well as some very nice dried things to add to salad’s in the winter. One of my favorites is nasturtium.
If you prune the bottom leaves on your tomatoes you can plant them closer. I plant mine close and make sure I prune consistently and they do very well.
Great easy way to make those beds. Thx
I wonder if you could use a row cover over your brassicas to protect them from the cabbage moths. Or even a hardware cloth arch, it's too small for them to get through.
I also have a huge bindweed problem. Strongly dislike that stuff. It creeps under the fence from the neighbors.
Very cool to watch someone else from wyoming making it work (growing lots of vegetables) in our really rough environment. I think your pretty close to my location because in one of your videos I see you guys use the same meat processor we do. I hope to reach out to you more which the ever struggles I run into.
If your chickens are safe from predators, we used to always clip back one wing. No flying in garden then. Just a thought.
I love how it’s real gardening- weeds and a few dead plants!! But so much abundance!
I always wonder how people have time for such intense gardening! I saw you had a school room, do you homeschool? How much do your kids help out, and what do they do while you're outside for so long?
Are the galvanized steel raised beds safe to use for food?
really poor sound. i see this video is an old one. i hope you have invested in a better mic.
I've learned that here in AZ raised beds just dry out too quick. These look so nice though.
This is an older video, but dogs can eat more veggies than meat to lose some weight to live longer perhaps.
I typically use my containers for either flowers or hardy herbs like parsley or corridander. My tip (learned from trial and error) is to not put in rocks for drainage because the biggest issue is the containers get too dry, and now I line the bottom of the pot with a diaper to absorb and hold onto water so they do not dry out on a hot day. No I do not use diapers in edible plantings, but I do strategically place them in part shade areas.
If you have weeds or noxious trees, cut them as close to the ground or even a bit below the surface if possible, on a new moon. I have done it a few times now and it works. No more weeds or regrowth. If by some chance they do, ( I had a really tough one once, a stump with suckers)keep cutting on a new moon. Eventually it gave up too. No chemicals. Got to be ON a new moon.
What is your recipe for whit moth killer????
I love your video's.. ALL of them hahah I have gotten a few others hooked on you too... Have you ever tried doing your tomato's going up poles? My friends had 6 foot tomato plans and you could see all the tomatos that were on the plant. Your viney weeds you can use Q4 spray which is for anything that vines out like morning glory and puncture vine (I know you don't like using chemicals) but if you're desperate LOL
Where did you buy the bridge decking metal?
Jill, Just a heads up when growing swiss chard and all the cabbage family crops including kale. We learned the hard way that it's well worth the expense and effort to use insect covers. We always had a big issue with leaf mines on the chard and now our production is about double before. we freeze the extra for winter soups and casseroles and as you know those pesky cabbage moths can do a number also. Likewise we have loads of kale in the freezer for winter use.
Marcia here...buy bolts of Toulle on Amazon. Works great & less expensive too
I'm more interested in the fence surrounding it. Lol. How to keep critters from digging under. We have rascally wabbits.
Knowledgable, beautifull smile, cute, down to earth, smart .... rare ... very rare. I whole heartedly enjoy your videos, top quality!
When you use pots they need more water, they dry out a lot quicker than planting in the ground.
Aussie Cattle Dog. That's how you know you're doing farming right 👌
Oh no☹️ what a challenge with poisoned hay😫. My delayed condolences.
We have great success with wood chips. Some we got free from a local yard waste management location and still others we got from tree cutters who just happened to be working in our area. We found that by adding deep wood chips mulch around our plants, watering is almost non existent!!!
Don’t feel strange, we’re making 35 raised beds!!!!!👍🏻
Jill, I love your laid back style. Found your UA-cam site when looking for sourdough starter recipes and am hooked. Your basic sourdough bread recipe is PERFECT! I’ve tried, with marginal success, to make sourdough for several years. I have a loaf rising as I write this. Thank you! Your family is delightful, especially that gentle, horse-sized dog❣️
I recently read that using these types of panels can cause lead to leach into soil. Just curious what your thoughts are on that
Buying some tulle off of Amazon and cover your brassicas ...works for me to keep bugs off. Helps to keep critters from eating them...it’s hard for deer to pick it out of their teeth...😂👍
Those are beautiful beds! I built some wooden ones for the first time this year and I painted them with linseed oil to help preserve them but I know their days are numbered even with that. I think steel beds are the way to go after watching a million videos. And you're right, having the thinner gal steel will require a wooden frame that will rot eventually as well. Next year, I'm building beds the way you guys did. Rock solid!
I came back to this video to learn more about your bed design. Thanks for the inspiration.
Our goats love vine weed. They do a great job of keeping the weeds down
What gauge are the panels you used?
She never tells anyone! I've read dozens of people asking that exact question on her blogs, and although she responds to others, she has NEVER responded to anyone on the thickness of the steel panels they used. Even if she or her husband weren't sure, they could ask their neighbor (that's where they got the panels), he'd surely know. And its extremely simple to measure thickness. She won't do it though, as you know, since your comment is 2 years old and has never received a response.
I like when you said “rather poetic”
Nice garden
This is excellent. I have no choice but to go with raised beds. My yard is so full of rocks. I may even use the rocks to make the beds. And I just moved up here in October, and I noticed rabbits hopping around the back. I wanted to cry. They were big ones. Almost scary rabbits. I’m hoping the raised beds keep them out. Can rabbits jump over the beds?
Put a hoops over the cabbage with netting.
Do you line the inside of your galvanized steel beds with any thing or just throw your soil right in?