I've got a few rolls of chicken wire, a few of those smaller t stakes, and could supplement the rest with some tree branches, but I don't have any of that weed suppressant material so I would probably go with your cardboard sheathing idea instead. I like these kind of videos. They're short and to the point.
Cardboard will dissolve, you really need some fabric. I’ve had problems with chipmunks coming up from the bottom, so I’d put the small hole wire fencing on the very bottom to keep them out.
@@mommaoinnh2674 The great thing about cardboard is that it's biodegradable, and by the time it starts to dissolve, the amount of soil loss will be minimal due to soil compaction. It reminds me of sphagnum moss. I brought in a few truck loads of mulch, and after a few months, I just cut into the sides of the pile with a shovel, and created a four foot high raised bed with absolutely nothing supporting it.
I used laundry baskets, purchased from the dollar tree, and lined with landscape fabric. worked very well as I could move them if needed. held about 6 gallons of soil.
I have also used Dollar Store laundry baskets and fabric cloth works great. Have to say the baskets do wear out after about 2-3 years. Grew a lot of Blue Lake green beans. Very useable system. How using 18 gallon totes works well as well. Enjoy gardening; have a good season.
@@lorayejones4777 Saw on Roots and Refuge to spray you containers with a sealant on outside . Has uv protection in the spray. Helps them last longer. She was talking about regrowing plants from food at grocery store several days ago and this too.
Affording soil is a major issue for me so this is great to know. I have 2 acres of difficult clay soil but endless amounts of of logs, leaves and hay. I am so thankful for you, literally saving lives out there.
I hear you! Hubby thought I was crazy going around on trash day grabbing bags of leaves and broken branches BUT now I have a base to sit my keyhole bed and a free pile of clay soil amend for this stubborn MS clay!
Last week, hubs & I went to a horse riding school & shoveled manure into his trailer. Chickens are loving it. They are in charge of rotating the compost, eating bugs & seeds. Good system so far. We won't use it for 60-90 days.
@@Whale_Chum Yes, great idea; and I've always got cardboard from Amazon deliveries; been tearing them up and throwing them in the recycling bin until now.
I did something similar 5 years ago when I started gardening. I built a raised bed around a large tree stump. Everything that grew there turned out amazing. Plenty of life was in the soil. I just broke down the box last week and used the soul and soft wood from the decomposed tree in pots and my garden bed. Thanks for sharing.
Dude, I've been overdoing things for sure. Trying to find good pallets, sourcing the wood for that, and building much smaller planters. This is a game changer and I don't known why I didn't think of this before. Tysm.
The combination of someone putting their hands in some soil and your music is perfect this morning with my tea and 7° outside! ❤ Can't wait to plant something! 😍
Made a few similar beds last year. I built mine by cutting the wire, hooking in the posts, attaching the mesh with zip ties. I rolled this mess up, took it out and put the posts in place as I unrolled it. Closed the loop with more zip ties. For me it was more manageable and easier on my back, since I could work on a sheet of plywood atop sawhorses.
I’ve done the same thing without the T-posts and chicken wire. Buy a 3 or 4 ft wide landscape fabric, turn it on its side to form a cylinder and staple the sides together. Be sure to roll the sides together before stapling for a strong hold. Fill the way Dan shows above. It holds up very well.
Thank you so much, Dan. I have seen so many economical ideas on making your own raised beds. This is the best thus far! This is the design that I will be using this year. And it's so easy. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the ideas!!! My husband and I were gonna put off adding raised beds for another year or 2 because of cost but we might be able to make these this year!!!
I tried Home Depot, Menards, and Lowes. Lowes was the only one who had 3 foot posts. 8 posts + chickenwire + weed barrier fabric was around 72.00. Of course the chicken wire and fabric would make at least 3 beds. Posts were 4.41 each.
Ring up the local grocer, Walmart, and produce terminal. If you have the spare, produce time and cash; you can sale your spare plants and produce. Several people in my city, have turned their yards into profitable businesses. I've heard from Living on a Dime, Community Associations are forming to sale garden plants and produce, too.
Great idea! I’ve seen people repurpose heat treated wooden pallets by creating compost bins from pallets. (Just be sure to get heat treated pallets and not pallets treated w chemicals-there are marking on side of pallets). 😃💚🪴
OMG this guy is a genius, giving beginners like myself something to start off with, here I was thinking of getting raised beds and here he is creating something with a few dollars! Thankyou so much bro for this information, you have saved me alot of money that I can use to put food on the plate and at the same time start a hobby that I used to love
@@eatinghealthy801 they are expensive, you're not going to find them for a few dollars right now. I bet the uploader already had some. You could use wood or metal scraps instead? Doesn't need to be aesthetically pleasing, because you can cover the outside of anything you end up using with burlap or whatever else you have laying around. :-)
I have a lot of moles in our area. They come after the worms in raised beds. I put hardware cloth on the bottom of my raised beds to keep the moles out. I think two or three overlapping layers of chicken wire would work, too.
MOles love juicy fruit gum. Must be juicy fruit. Take a stick and cut into 4ths and put into the ground where you see mole runs. No more miles. Imagine a Ole chewing gum.to at mulate growth and chase away grubs take wooden matches and put 3_4 Around a plant heads down the sulfer chases away the bugs For gnats,flues and mosquitos plant basil in pits in the garden etc
I like the idea ! 🌱🌱🌱 but I wouldn’t plant in it till after it’s been completely watered . Because it will Settle and you will have to re-place more soil/mulch in areas that have sunken down - before planting 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I have been doing that for years. I now have 4 gardens built this way. One is 15 ft. by 6 ft. we filled that one 3/4 full of layers of cardboard and then added about a foot of soil on top. every year we add a couple bales of straw or a bunch of dried leaves or a couple bags of soil. We get great crops from the composted gardens! Easy to build!
@@veronicamoorman2645 I just take a pitch fork and give it a turn or 2 all over the top. Rake it out nice and flat with my metal, short tine rake and plant. Twice now, we have shoveled 8 or 10 inches of soil, (from half the garden), over to the other side of the area, layed in 5 or six inches deep of card board, shoveled all the dirt on to the card board and put cardboard on the that side and then spread the dirt out evenly. Then we plant and by the end of the season, all the cardboard is composted down to nice dirt. I have not had any compaction issues with this method. One year my son turned the spring soil with just his hands. hahaha... 40 years old and playin' in the dirt! He said it is so soft and smells so good! We had great tomatoes that year. hahaha
@@shirleyporter7107 Yes, I line the thing with black garden cloth, (plastic weed barrier). Once we had some plastic bags from parts at the factory we work at. we cut them open on two sides and made them flat. then we lined the garden with them to keep the dirt from falling out. hahaha... real custom garden! 😅
I’ve been doing mine in a circle or oblong, depending in my location. Works great. Great way to get rid off weeds and chicken compost. I plant squash on the ground around the base , then I plant in the top. 😁. Great video
I use a lot of grow bags for fruit trees and produce. I lost almost all of them in a house fire. This would be a less expensive way of replacing many of them. I will be starting my garden from scratch as soon as my home is rebuilt (hopefully in the next three months🤞🤞🤞). Your channel has given me great ideas to improve on what I had. Thanks❤️
I'm sorry for your loss. A fire that takes everything is devastating. We lost our home when I was a child. You can also use a cardboard box for a lot of plantings.
Good idea, nice thing about raised beds is that the materials or items used can be endless 👍..I might suggest instead of using bagged potting or top soils as there are no nutrients in them start a compost pile or go to a nursery or garden center and get a load of mulch. I have the room but understand a lot may not. tree service companies are always looking for some place to dump a load of mulch and in most cases will give you a load for that reason. ( be sure it is " clean" ..in my area we have a lot of poison ivy and honeysuckle) I have used this gentlemen for yrs and trust him. because this area gets a lot of humidity and rain fall, a load decomposes in a yrs time. I went fully raised beds using roofing metal that was given to me left over from a roof job next door ( 10- 20ft pieces) my beds are 3't x 20'L x 4' w I have 2 currently and plan to add 2 more .... As I said before raised beds can be made out of a lot of things if you can imagine it.
Brilliant. Sadly last years deep freeze in OR took out my chicken coop/run and I had to rehome my chickens. Now I have all of these supplies and was wondering what to do with them. Thank you!! Also they’re run was made with t-post & 4x4, chicken wire and deer fence.
It not only seems inexpensive but looks kinda cool as well. I like that it isn't a plastic bin. Maybe I'll give it a try this year. Thanks for the idea.
I live in an apartment, but my landlord gave me permission to grow son a small part of the property. I’m excited to start! Thank you for all that you share🙏🏽
Love this idea. I have a tendency to like to change the look of my yard and your ideas, as well as those from comments on your posts, are great for non-permanent plantings at a budget price. One thought to add: Hugelkultur (sp?) gardening, the use of punky wood at the bottom of the bed, doesn't just add eventual nutrients and worms to the bed, it is used to help keep the bed moist and reduce watering needs. When watching the videos from the 'experts', they all water down the wood and the other materials they use as they build the bed. The wood absorbs the water and then gives it back to the soil as needed. Most of their beds support perennial plantings, but since you've built it up to 3/4 or more of the bulk of the bed, I think the principal would still apply. I would suggest adding water to all of your beds as you build. Here in Georgia, zone 8a, that's one of my main reasons for building these kinds of beds. I have 28g metal tubs that I fill 3/4 with old punky wood and then plant my tomatoes, etc. in and my need to water is reduced (the drainage holes in those tubs are about 3" up the side of the tub instead of in the bottom so that water can be absorbed by the wood). Just found your channel a week or so ago and am enjoying it very much. Thank you!
Diana thanks for the information. I just found him last week myself. 💁♀️ Lucky me I'm in Dan's zone, 9B, so everything he suggests should work for me. Your explanation is a big help. I'm just setting up a few beds for this season. We can get 30 days straight of 100 F or above days. Anything to cut down on watering helps. Not only the drought but I'm on a water meter. Happy growing!
@@renel7303 I am with you on the heat and the water. I'm on meter too. I have used the 35 gallon rubber garbage cans (16 of them) as rain barrels for about 6-7 years and they work just fine if you don't have a lot of space (because they're black, they have a tendency to disappear in the garden). I rarely use metered water any longer. I live in a 100 year old house with no gutters. I place the cans where the roof pitches meet (that's where the most water comes down) and then use a transfer pump to move the water around to barrels located where the plants are. It's a lot easier to dip a watering can and only walk a few feet than 100+ feet, lol.
I am in zone 4/5. It gets above 100° for one or two months in the summer up here and the humidity is nonexistent, so any way to reduce the need to water daily is very good.
@@lindaaskme2588 I'm not sure what you mean. If you're referring to the holes in the container, the container is galvanized metal. I drilled the holes in the side of the container, instead of the bottom, so that the container would retain some of the water. The rest of the water drains out of the container once it reaches the height of the holes. Does that answer your question? If not, please let me know!
Oh! I am inspired to use my old compost circle. It is in terrible shape and dangerous with wires poking out everywhere but this might be a great way to retire it when i get around to making a new one.
Best method I’ve ever seen!! I can’t afford all the typical material to make a raised bed, much less the soil to fill it. By using logs & leafs & greens, the underlying soil will become rich. That’s brilliant!
I built a similar bed but didn't want to buy t posts. Had some 3/4" electrical conduit cut it to length and worked a treat. No logs but tree trimmings, leaves, paper and cardboard.
Great idea! I've got some pieces of hog panel that I used for a fence, I'm gonna try using those with the landscape fabric and make a rectangular bed. Thanks for your budget friendly out of the box ideas!🥰
I bought cloth type pots from Amazon, 5 in a pack for about $30, 7 gallons each .. about 21 lit. Have handles on side to move them about. They’re reusable also. Have only just begin to use them so I’ll see how they go. But I like his idea to fill th3 bottom with wood and leaves .. potting mix gets expensive when you’re filling 10 x 20 lit pots. We have no yard .. all my growing is in pots.🌻
@@thekingsdaughter4233 .. Hi .. The label says: Fabric Grow Bags. Closer to nature, gain a better life. That they’d are breathable, durable, warm, eco-friendly. At the top right hand corner it has: T4U - Think For You. The label is mostly greens with a man in a check shirt holding a basket of vegetables. There is also a pot growing capsicums. At the bottom it says - Made with durable non-woven fabric. Promote healthy root development. Sturdy handles allow easy movement. Keeps in good condition for years. And that’s it. There are different sizes. 5, 7 and 10 gallon pots. Maybe more, but that was all I saw. I have begun using mine, I initially bought the 7 gallon ones, but ordered 12 of the 5 gallon ones on line last night. They usually come within a week or 9 days. That’s all the info I have .. good hunting and potting. 🌻
I love some of your ideas and I firmly believe in helping people garden on a budget and gardening doesnt have to be expensive to work really well. That being said I would probably set something like this up in early fall and let it season before growing in it to get the beat result if they're going to fill it this way. I love the chicken wire frame ideas you've had though.
I love your video very descriptive your actions speak louder than words I love this method of gardening and I had no idea you could take a leaf and root of plant while you if I did but I didn't know that anybody would really be doing it thank you
Thank you for your great ideas....i went on a workshop . We used carboard boxes , compost and fertilizer for no weed beds ...going to do this in my large courtyard and fence it off away from the dogs and cat .⚘
Plant Abundance: Excellent notion; one could also pour over the wood logs with wood chip from pruned trees and shrubs, say, to half the depth or three quarters, and then top up with top soil. I've always got tree limbs and branches, and up to now I've been shredding them.
This was brilliant! Thanks. I enjoyed how you got to the point. I did not want to purchase lumber for a raised bed and this is awesome! i have loads of branches I have been waiting for an idea about how to use them and this is it. thanks.
Great idea and method to get super beds at a low cost! I'd add a few shovels' worth of homemade compost and/or soil from my garden in to establish the soil flaura/fauna faster and unlock the nutrients in the bottom layers.
Wow I'm getting so many ideas right when I need them. Thanks so much. I was trying to find ways to have high garden beds and this is very helpful. I'm having a problem with squirrels all of a sudden. Started last year. Hopefully this will help along with a chicken wire fence or hardware cloth fence.
I garden in totes. I layer with leaves, kitchen scraps and plant matter and top with a small amount of potting mix. Also only fill about half full if that depending on what I'm planting. That plant matter breaks down and makes the richest homemade soil. I now only buy maybe one large bag of soil a year since I have made so much of my own.
L❤ve it! This would be perfect for pumpkin & summer squash that need a lot of feeding but not much attention and if the wire still has bits which are sticking out less chance of you catching yourself on them 😉
Thank you. We have been building beds using 2x4x8 lumber and special bricks. They look fantastic but are very expensive and hard to justify in terms of expense. We will be using this method for some of the beds in the backyard
I’ve built many raised beds using old fence panels, off cuts from fitting new fences, redoing sheds and off cuts from stores which they sell cheap. I’ve had none go rotten on me yet but once they do I’ll just put at the bottom of a raised bed with the rest of the wood, bark, pine cones etc
Thanks for all of the hacks. Gardening can get so expensive that it is cost effective to just go the the local farmer's market after a while. I have given up on tomatoes in New Mexico.
Over the 24" inches depth, did I get the layers correct starting from the bottom.?: 1) landscape cloth 2) cut logs 3) green plant growth 4) dead leaves from trees 5) soil 6) straw .?
This looks like it will work very well with the perk of making compost. Due to the current price of lumber been having to do some homework regarding a huge garden with raised beds...Thanks..
Gail Sanders .. Hi Gail, Pat from Australia here .. I have tried sewing the shade mesh (90%) - it’s a bit stiff to sew but I managed. Did you use fishing line or normal cotton. It’s difficult sewing on the machine with the fishing line .. I may try by hand next time still using the fine fishing line. Would love to know how yours turns out. I wanted to make a trough like pot .. about 2 yards long and 18inches wide and about 20 inches deep and with a bottom in it because we have no soil, it’s all pebbles and pebble Crete, but my husband said it would rot with in a year. Have made 6inch cube hanging baskets from the mesh to hang on my fence (space is limited), for strawberries .. will try 3 to begin and see how they turn out. I have bought some of those grow bags, the 7 gallon ones, got 5 for about $30 Australian dollars. Have just planted 4 of them of out with cabbage and bean seedlings. Can only try and see how it goes. It’s all trial and error for me. 🌻
Gail Sanders .. hi there, the mesh didn’t work out at all for pots, though it’s 90% shade, the water pours straight out through the potting mix. So that idea has died a sudden death. 🌻
@@helenflouch .. Hi Helen .. I can’t say .. I live in Australia and the only place I have found them is Amazon. They are black, like a really heavy thick felt , have handles made of the same fabric, are used for pot plants and available in 5 , 7 and 10 gallon sizes. It’s possible they are the same, things are different in different countries, I can only give you the description of them. I am going to place them on wooden pellets (when I can get them) for drainage and so they will last longer. The advertisement says they are durable and will last for quite a few seasons. I prefer them over the black plastic pots that don’t breathe. 🌻
Great 👍 idea 💡 chicken wire. That is absolutely awesome 👏 idea 💡!!! Your right they want you to use their soil. The logs 🪵 really help fill in the empty spaces what a great 👍 idea !!!
I just bought 6 raised beds but the wont rust n are big enough for different places in my small yard. I can grow enough for a yr in them n I love how easy upkeep is
Wow! Awesome! Thank you for sharing this video! I made something like this for my compost bin, I didn't use any lining though. I never would have thought to do this for a raised bed.
This is great! Thank you...question, I live in FL, have lots of Areca palms, can I used the palm leaves in the bed? Any recommendations for adjustment due to FL sun? Thank you for all the great tips.
I do this . I thaw the weed fabric and measure It out to how big I want the raised bed to be. And then I saw it to make it either a circle or a square and add a bottom. And then I do the Hugo culture method which is what you're doing here. Works pretty good
I never use logs as big as you have because they are great for log burners if you cut them up or just nice decoration around the garden, either to sit on or even put pots of plants on for the bees. I like to stick to smaller wood which breaks down quicker so at the end of the season I can move the raised bed easier if I need to. I tried growing so many things last year but they either failed or I didn’t eat them so I’m going to stick to simple and things I like to eat such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc which can also be pickled. I got some good pumpkins but they take over a lot of the garden!
Love your ideas! I’ve struggled with fungus gnats for years and the expense of raised gardens has made it out of my reach. No longer are these going to be a problem. I diss look in the description for the landscaping cloth you used but couldn’t find it. What landscaping cloth do you use? Thank you
Love this have moles or voles something eating most of my bulb plants. They moved some flowers we had a burn pile and wow I have a huge circle of cannasas. Thanks
I live in Northwestern Colorado. For voles / moles I use those pinwheels (for childs play). Just stake them close to their burrows or where you don't want them. They don't like the vibrations when the wind blows. The wind blows here kinda like it does in Wyoming.
Last year we used plastic fencing with these posts because we couldn't find chicken wire anywhere. Rabbits ate right through it and ate everything we'd planted, so when we found chicken wire online, we added that around the outside, so now it is double fenced. It's not Instagram pretty, but it worked.
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I've got a few rolls of chicken wire, a few of those smaller t stakes, and could supplement the rest with some tree branches, but I don't have any of that weed suppressant material so I would probably go with your cardboard sheathing idea instead.
I like these kind of videos. They're short and to the point.
Perfect! Using what you have available is the way to go. Rebar, chicken wire and cardboard is another low cost alternative. Cheers!
Re-use feed bags, soil, perlite, vermiculite bags. Slows water loss, too.
Great, i have plenty of cardboard too. Thanks for discussion
Cardboard will dissolve, you really need some fabric. I’ve had problems with chipmunks coming up from the bottom, so I’d put the small hole wire fencing on the very bottom to keep them out.
@@mommaoinnh2674 The great thing about cardboard is that it's biodegradable, and by the time it starts to dissolve, the amount of soil loss will be minimal due to soil compaction. It reminds me of sphagnum moss.
I brought in a few truck loads of mulch, and after a few months, I just cut into the sides of the pile with a shovel, and created a four foot high raised bed with absolutely nothing supporting it.
I used laundry baskets, purchased from the dollar tree, and lined with landscape fabric. worked very well as I could move them if needed. held about 6 gallons of soil.
I have also used Dollar Store laundry baskets and fabric cloth works great. Have to say the baskets do wear out after about 2-3 years. Grew a lot of Blue Lake green beans. Very useable system. How using 18 gallon totes works well as well. Enjoy gardening; have a good season.
@@lorayejones4777 Saw on Roots and Refuge to spray you containers with a sealant on outside . Has uv protection in the spray. Helps them last longer. She was talking about regrowing plants from food at grocery store several days ago and this too.
Great idea!
Love it! I use old satellite dishes for winter growing. They make perfect light reflectors.
Did you cut hole in bottom of basket?
Affording soil is a major issue for me so this is great to know. I have 2 acres of difficult clay soil but endless amounts of of logs, leaves and hay. I am so thankful for you, literally saving lives out there.
Grow comfrey - it's great for nutrifying soil.
@@helenflouch Great! Thank you I will do that.
I hear you! Hubby thought I was crazy going around on trash day grabbing bags of leaves and broken branches BUT now I have a base to sit my keyhole bed and a free pile of clay soil amend for this stubborn MS clay!
@@joanies6778 Thank you that is so helpful!
Last week, hubs & I went to a horse riding school & shoveled manure into his trailer. Chickens are loving it. They are in charge of rotating the compost, eating bugs & seeds. Good system so far. We won't use it for 60-90 days.
I hope if nothing else this raised bed garden design gives you some good ideas! Thanks for watching!
What plant did you use those cuttings from?
As an alternative, instead of weed barrier, cut up feed bags and other large bags from perlite, topsoil, etc. to line the wall.
Sure did my next project ! Thank you.
@@Whale_Chum Yes, great idea; and I've always got cardboard from Amazon deliveries; been tearing them up and throwing them in the recycling bin until now.
Can you provide the link for the weed barrier, as it wasn't listed in your vid description? Thanks!
I sewed landscape material into grow bags the sizes I wanted and had a beautiful patio container garden!
Me too... right after I seen grow bags ... and how much they charged... thought... I have a roll of weed block.. and a sewing machine 😁
Brilliant idea
Great idea!💡
I save my chicken & rabbit feed bags to make grow bags
How do you sew bags and what kind of material did you use?
I did something similar 5 years ago when I started gardening. I built a raised bed around a large tree stump. Everything that grew there turned out amazing. Plenty of life was in the soil. I just broke down the box last week and used the soul and soft wood from the decomposed tree in pots and my garden bed. Thanks for sharing.
Dude, I've been overdoing things for sure. Trying to find good pallets, sourcing the wood for that, and building much smaller planters. This is a game changer and I don't known why I didn't think of this before. Tysm.
Also you could wrap burlap around the outside to give it a more organic natural look! Pretty it up ❤️
I like that idea!
The combination of someone putting their hands in some soil and your music is perfect this morning with my tea and 7° outside! ❤
Can't wait to plant something! 😍
Thank you, Dan, for helping us garden without the terrible costs. I have been breaking down a lot of my cardboard.
Be sure to remove packing tape from boxes.
Made a few similar beds last year. I built mine by cutting the wire, hooking in the posts, attaching the mesh with zip ties. I rolled this mess up, took it out and put the posts in place as I unrolled it. Closed the loop with more zip ties. For me it was more manageable and easier on my back, since I could work on a sheet of plywood atop sawhorses.
What a great idea, to use saw horses.... My back is bad too, so I will be doing this as well. Thank you.
I’ve done the same thing without the T-posts and chicken wire. Buy a 3 or 4 ft wide landscape fabric, turn it on its side to form a cylinder and staple the sides together. Be sure to roll the sides together before stapling for a strong hold. Fill the way Dan shows above. It holds up very well.
Thank you so much, Dan. I have seen so many economical ideas on making your own raised beds. This is the best thus far! This is the design that I will be using this year. And it's so easy. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the ideas!!! My husband and I were gonna put off adding raised beds for another year or 2 because of cost but we might be able to make these this year!!!
I tried Home Depot, Menards, and Lowes. Lowes was the only one who had 3 foot posts. 8 posts + chickenwire + weed barrier fabric was around 72.00. Of course the chicken wire and fabric would make at least 3 beds. Posts were 4.41 each.
I got them at lowes yesterday around $70
I used one of those huge produce boxes (pumpkins, melons, etc come in) for my compost pile. Filled it with leaves etc.
Good idea
Where do you get them from?
Ring up the local grocer, Walmart, and produce terminal. If you have the spare, produce time and cash; you can sale your spare plants and produce. Several people in my city, have turned their yards into profitable businesses. I've heard from Living on a Dime, Community Associations are forming to sale garden plants and produce, too.
Great idea! I’ve seen people repurpose heat treated wooden pallets by creating compost bins from pallets. (Just be sure to get heat treated pallets and not pallets treated w chemicals-there are marking on side of pallets). 😃💚🪴
Brilliant!
OMG this guy is a genius, giving beginners like myself something to start off with, here I was thinking of getting raised beds and here he is creating something with a few dollars! Thankyou so much bro for this information, you have saved me alot of money that I can use to put food on the plate and at the same time start a hobby that I used to love
T posts are expensive. Where can I get them cheap?
@@eatinghealthy801 they are expensive, you're not going to find them for a few dollars right now. I bet the uploader already had some. You could use wood or metal scraps instead? Doesn't need to be aesthetically pleasing, because you can cover the outside of anything you end up using with burlap or whatever else you have laying around. :-)
I have a lot of moles in our area. They come after the worms in raised beds. I put hardware cloth on the bottom of my raised beds to keep the moles out. I think two or three overlapping layers of chicken wire would work, too.
MOles love juicy fruit gum. Must be juicy fruit. Take a stick and cut into 4ths and put into the ground where you see mole runs. No more miles. Imagine a
Ole chewing gum.to at mulate growth and chase away grubs take wooden matches and put 3_4 Around a plant heads down the sulfer chases away the bugs For gnats,flues and mosquitos plant basil in pits in the garden etc
I like the idea ! 🌱🌱🌱 but I wouldn’t plant in it till after it’s been completely watered . Because it will Settle and you will have to re-place more soil/mulch in areas that have sunken down - before planting 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I think that the best thing to do is build it in the fall and let it compost and settle over the winter.
I have been doing that for years. I now have 4 gardens built this way. One is 15 ft. by 6 ft. we filled that one 3/4 full of layers of cardboard and then added about a foot of soil on top. every year we add a couple bales of straw or a bunch of dried leaves or a couple bags of soil. We get great crops from the composted gardens! Easy to build!
Nik emko how do you till it the next before planting being so high off the ground
@@veronicamoorman2645 I just take a pitch fork and give it a turn or 2 all over the top. Rake it out nice and flat with my metal, short tine rake and plant. Twice now, we have shoveled 8 or 10 inches of soil, (from half the garden), over to the other side of the area, layed in 5 or six inches deep of card board, shoveled all the dirt on to the card board and put cardboard on the that side and then spread the dirt out evenly. Then we plant and by the end of the season, all the cardboard is composted down to nice dirt. I have not had any compaction issues with this method. One year my son turned the spring soil with just his hands. hahaha... 40 years old and playin' in the dirt! He said it is so soft and smells so good! We had great tomatoes that year. hahaha
@@nikemko9038 thank you so much. I can do that 😁
@@shirleyporter7107 Yes, I line the thing with black garden cloth, (plastic weed barrier). Once we had some plastic bags from parts at the factory we work at. we cut them open on two sides and made them flat. then we lined the garden with them to keep the dirt from falling out. hahaha... real custom garden! 😅
That's what we should have done
Maybe we'll fix that before planting
I didn’t know you could propagate kale that way! Is there a specific place to cut?Great content, thank you!
I’ve been doing mine in a circle or oblong, depending in my location. Works great. Great way to get rid off weeds and chicken compost. I plant squash on the ground around the base , then I plant in the top. 😁. Great video
I use a lot of grow bags for fruit trees and produce. I lost almost all of them in a house fire. This would be a less expensive way of replacing many of them. I will be starting my garden from scratch as soon as my home is rebuilt (hopefully in the next three months🤞🤞🤞). Your channel has given me great ideas to improve on what I had. Thanks❤️
Dollar tree has grow bags.
I'm sorry for your loss. A fire that takes everything is devastating. We lost our home when I was a child. You can also use a cardboard box for a lot of plantings.
Good idea, nice thing about raised beds is that the materials or items used can be endless 👍..I might suggest instead of using bagged potting or top soils as there are no nutrients in them start a compost pile or go to a nursery or garden center and get a load of mulch. I have the room but understand a lot may not. tree service companies are always looking for some place to dump a load of mulch and in most cases will give you a load for that reason. ( be sure it is " clean" ..in my area we have a lot of poison ivy and honeysuckle) I have used this gentlemen for yrs and trust him. because this area gets a lot of humidity and rain fall, a load decomposes in a yrs time.
I went fully raised beds using roofing metal that was given to me left over from a roof job next door ( 10- 20ft pieces) my beds are 3't x 20'L x 4' w I have 2 currently and plan to add 2 more .... As I said before raised beds can be made out of a lot of things if you can imagine it.
Oh my gosh how have I not found your channel before? I keep sharing more to my husband's email! You are saving us SO MUCH MONEY!
Brilliant. Sadly last years deep freeze in OR took out my chicken coop/run and I had to rehome my chickens. Now I have all of these supplies and was wondering what to do with them. Thank you!! Also they’re run was made with t-post & 4x4, chicken wire and deer fence.
It not only seems inexpensive but looks kinda cool as well. I like that it isn't a plastic bin. Maybe I'll give it a try this year. Thanks for the idea.
Love this idea, it would also make a wonderful compost bin. You have great videos, always short and to the point, my favorite.
I live in an apartment, but my landlord gave me permission to grow son a small part of the property. I’m excited to start! Thank you for all that you share🙏🏽
Love this idea. I have a tendency to like to change the look of my yard and your ideas, as well as those from comments on your posts, are great for non-permanent plantings at a budget price.
One thought to add: Hugelkultur (sp?) gardening, the use of punky wood at the bottom of the bed, doesn't just add eventual nutrients and worms to the bed, it is used to help keep the bed moist and reduce watering needs.
When watching the videos from the 'experts', they all water down the wood and the other materials they use as they build the bed. The wood absorbs the water and then gives it back to the soil as needed. Most of their beds support perennial plantings, but since you've built it up to 3/4 or more of the bulk of the bed, I think the principal would still apply. I would suggest adding water to all of your beds as you build.
Here in Georgia, zone 8a, that's one of my main reasons for building these kinds of beds. I have 28g metal tubs that I fill 3/4 with old punky wood and then plant my tomatoes, etc. in and my need to water is reduced (the drainage holes in those tubs are about 3" up the side of the tub instead of in the bottom so that water can be absorbed by the wood).
Just found your channel a week or so ago and am enjoying it very much. Thank you!
Diana thanks for the information. I just found him last week myself. 💁♀️ Lucky me I'm in Dan's zone, 9B, so everything he suggests should work for me. Your explanation is a big help. I'm just setting up a few beds for this season. We can get 30 days straight of 100 F or above days. Anything to cut down on watering helps. Not only the drought but I'm on a water meter. Happy growing!
@@renel7303 I am with you on the heat and the water. I'm on meter too. I have used the 35 gallon rubber garbage cans (16 of them) as rain barrels for about 6-7 years and they work just fine if you don't have a lot of space (because they're black, they have a tendency to disappear in the garden). I rarely use metered water any longer. I live in a 100 year old house with no gutters. I place the cans where the roof pitches meet (that's where the most water comes down) and then use a transfer pump to move the water around to barrels located where the plants are. It's a lot easier to dip a watering can and only walk a few feet than 100+ feet, lol.
I am in zone 4/5. It gets above 100° for one or two months in the summer up here and the humidity is nonexistent, so any way to reduce the need to water daily is very good.
What did you put in the holes?
@@lindaaskme2588
I'm not sure what you mean. If you're referring to the holes in the container, the container is galvanized metal. I drilled the holes in the side of the container, instead of the bottom, so that the container would retain some of the water. The rest of the water drains out of the container once it reaches the height of the holes.
Does that answer your question? If not, please let me know!
Oh! I am inspired to use my old compost circle. It is in terrible shape and dangerous with wires poking out everywhere but this might be a great way to retire it when i get around to making a new one.
Best method I’ve ever seen!! I can’t afford all the typical material to make a raised bed, much less the soil to fill it. By using logs & leafs & greens, the underlying soil will become rich. That’s brilliant!
I built a similar bed but didn't want to buy t posts. Had some 3/4" electrical conduit cut it to length and worked a treat. No logs but tree trimmings, leaves, paper and cardboard.
Great idea! I've got some pieces of hog panel that I used for a fence, I'm gonna try using those with the landscape fabric and make a rectangular bed. Thanks for your budget friendly out of the box ideas!🥰
I bought cloth type pots from Amazon, 5 in a pack for about $30, 7 gallons each .. about 21 lit. Have handles on side to move them about. They’re reusable also. Have only just begin to use them so I’ll see how they go. But I like his idea to fill th3 bottom with wood and leaves .. potting mix gets expensive when you’re filling 10 x 20 lit pots. We have no yard .. all my growing is in pots.🌻
Would you please share the name/brand? Got a gift card from amazon, so maybe... :-)
@@thekingsdaughter4233 .. Hi .. The label says: Fabric Grow Bags. Closer to nature, gain a better life. That they’d are breathable, durable, warm, eco-friendly. At the top right hand corner it has: T4U - Think For You. The label is mostly greens with a man in a check shirt holding a basket of vegetables. There is also a pot growing capsicums. At the bottom it says -
Made with durable non-woven fabric. Promote healthy root development. Sturdy handles allow easy movement. Keeps in good condition for years. And that’s it. There are different sizes. 5, 7 and 10 gallon pots. Maybe more, but that was all I saw. I have begun using mine, I initially bought the 7 gallon ones, but ordered 12 of the 5 gallon ones on line last night. They usually come within a week or 9 days. That’s all the info I have .. good hunting and potting. 🌻
I just now went to amazon and a search for cloth pits turned up a large selection of sizes! I'm going to try this.
@@susanrichardson8035 hi Susan .. that’s good, I find them great so far 🌻
@@patvanderwolf8300 thank you! :-)
I just watched the dumbest zoom on Facebook about organic Gardening that only promoted eb stone. But your video was awesome 👏🏻 thank you 🙏🏼
I love some of your ideas and I firmly believe in helping people garden on a budget and gardening doesnt have to be expensive to work really well. That being said I would probably set something like this up in early fall and let it season before growing in it to get the beat result if they're going to fill it this way. I love the chicken wire frame ideas you've had though.
So glad I found your channel and I'm sure so is everyone here. Great money saver idea.
Brilliant idea, it would also make a wonderful compost bin. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I love the music you chose to play in the background.
I love your video very descriptive your actions speak louder than words I love this method of gardening and I had no idea you could take a leaf and root of plant while you if I did but I didn't know that anybody would really be doing it thank you
Love that the elements you use are natural. Thank you
this is just beautiful. I had to put my dog down yesterday and this video with music I found very relaxing. Nice work.
Just got my seat potatoes and I’m going to try this a smaller version in Ben’s thank you thank you
Very much did it give me ideas!! Love the way you filled it, and love the build idea perhaps for trees, Using smaller, triangle shapes. Thanks!!
Thank you for your great ideas....i went on a workshop . We used carboard boxes , compost and fertilizer for no weed beds ...going to do this in my large courtyard and fence it off away from the dogs and cat .⚘
Love this idea!! And looks like you started tree collards!! Love the music too!! I’ll be using your idea for sure!! Thank you!
God Bless you Brother. I have learned so much about growing from you. May God richly bless you 2,000 fold IJN Amen
I might try to use old rugs/carpet I love to recycle...thanks for sharing 😍
Please only use rugs which are of natural origin, no plastic or synthetic based carpets.
Plant Abundance: Excellent notion; one could also pour over the wood logs with wood chip from pruned trees and shrubs, say, to half the depth or three quarters, and then top up with top soil. I've always got tree limbs and branches, and up to now I've been shredding them.
just put your wood chips in then, I think that would work faster for sure.
Wood chips make great mulch as well!
@@ICU-mw7su They do indeed. :)
This was brilliant! Thanks. I enjoyed how you got to the point. I did not want to purchase lumber for a raised bed and this is awesome! i have loads of branches I have been waiting for an idea about how to use them and this is it. thanks.
Great idea and method to get super beds at a low cost!
I'd add a few shovels' worth of homemade compost and/or soil from my garden in to establish the soil flaura/fauna faster and unlock the nutrients in the bottom layers.
Wow I'm getting so many ideas right when I need them. Thanks so much. I was trying to find ways to have high garden beds and this is very helpful. I'm having a problem with squirrels all of a sudden. Started last year. Hopefully this will help along with a chicken wire fence or hardware cloth fence.
Such a great idea, looks so much better than the laundry baskets. That's what I had planned. Thank you
Great idea! I love it!
Thank you. Your ideas are good inspiration and promote more ideas from all your viewers. It makes us develop new successful projects.
I garden in totes. I layer with leaves, kitchen scraps and plant matter and top with a small amount of potting mix. Also only fill about half full if that depending on what I'm planting. That plant matter breaks down and makes the richest homemade soil. I now only buy maybe one large bag of soil a year since I have made so much of my own.
Thank you for showing this raised garden bed. I can do this one myself.
This is the way. I love how you used hügelkultur technique and composting
L❤ve it! This would be perfect for pumpkin & summer squash that need a lot of feeding but not much attention and if the wire still has bits which are sticking out less chance of you catching yourself on them 😉
Thank you. We have been building beds using 2x4x8 lumber and special bricks. They look fantastic but are very expensive and hard to justify in terms of expense. We will be using this method for some of the beds in the backyard
I’ve built many raised beds using old fence panels, off cuts from fitting new fences, redoing sheds and off cuts from stores which they sell cheap. I’ve had none go rotten on me yet but once they do I’ll just put at the bottom of a raised bed with the rest of the wood, bark, pine cones etc
Thanks for all of the hacks. Gardening can get so expensive that it is cost effective to just go the the local farmer's market after a while. I have given up on tomatoes in New Mexico.
Awesome idea. Stakes and Chicken wire will last a lot longer then my plastic tubs. Thanks for the idea.
Over the 24" inches depth, did I get the layers correct starting from the bottom.?:
1) landscape cloth
2) cut logs
3) green plant growth
4) dead leaves from trees
5) soil
6) straw
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Also a layer of cardboard at the bottom.
This looks like it will work very well with the perk of making compost. Due to the current price of lumber been having to do some homework regarding a huge garden with raised beds...Thanks..
Love this. I love the music you had with it too.
Gail Sanders .. Hi Gail, Pat from Australia here .. I have tried sewing the shade mesh (90%) - it’s a bit stiff to sew but I managed. Did you use fishing line or normal cotton. It’s difficult sewing on the machine with the fishing line .. I may try by hand next time still using the fine fishing line. Would love to know how yours turns out. I wanted to make a trough like pot .. about 2 yards long and 18inches wide and about 20 inches deep and with a bottom in it because we have no soil, it’s all pebbles and pebble Crete, but my husband said it would rot with in a year. Have made 6inch cube hanging baskets from the mesh to hang on my fence (space is limited), for strawberries .. will try 3 to begin and see how they turn out.
I have bought some of those grow bags, the 7 gallon ones, got 5 for about $30 Australian dollars. Have just planted 4 of them of out with cabbage and bean seedlings. Can only try and see how it goes. It’s all trial and error for me. 🌻
Gail Sanders .. hi there, the mesh didn’t work out at all for pots, though it’s 90% shade, the water pours straight out through the potting mix. So that idea has died a sudden death. 🌻
Hi . By grow bags do you mean Hong Kong Shoppers from the discount shops?
@@helenflouch .. Hi Helen .. I can’t say .. I live in Australia and the only place I have found them is Amazon. They are black, like a really heavy thick felt , have handles made of the same fabric, are used for pot plants and available in 5 , 7 and 10 gallon sizes. It’s possible they are the same, things are different in different countries, I can only give you the description of them. I am going to place them on wooden pellets (when I can get them) for drainage and so they will last longer. The advertisement says they are durable and will last for quite a few seasons. I prefer them over the black plastic pots that don’t breathe. 🌻
Great 👍 idea 💡 chicken wire. That is absolutely awesome 👏 idea 💡!!! Your right they want you to use their soil. The logs 🪵 really help fill in the empty spaces what a great 👍 idea !!!
Wow. You make gardening look easy.
I just bought 6 raised beds but the wont rust n are big enough for different places in my small yard. I can grow enough for a yr in them n I love how easy upkeep is
Wow thank you, will try this so, happy to see this video. It is will save me a ton of money !!!
Beautiful video! I'm planting mammoth sunflowers to amend the soil mix.
Perfect and can be done with stuff found at the dump. Can use cut conduit as well. Innovative.
Another fantastic gardening idea! Definitely going to try this out in our backyard.
Beautiful I made cedar ones 10 x 5 but sure do like this idea better....great job THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WISH YOU WERE MY NEIGHBOR!!
Wow! Awesome! Thank you for sharing this video! I made something like this for my compost bin, I didn't use any lining though. I never would have thought to do this for a raised bed.
awesome idea! and what beautiful music on your video. Nice way to wake up in the morning!
Wow great idea 💡 definitely doing this 😎‼️🌻🌻
This is great. I have most of this stuff laying around and cant afford to buy tons of soil
Such a great, helpful, instructive video. You help so many people feed themselves thank you
Hi Dan, Nice to meet you in Home depot! I can apply this method on the slope! Thank you!
Hello again! Thanks for stopping by the channel! I'm glad you found the info helpful. Cheers!
GENIOUS! I'm definitely doing this. Thank you!
Did this for my whole hugel culture thanks
This is great! Thank you...question, I live in FL, have lots of Areca palms, can I used the palm leaves in the bed? Any recommendations for adjustment due to FL sun? Thank you for all the great tips.
This is my kind of raised bed, one that won’t break my back tending to all summer.
I love this idea! However the chicken wire should run on the inside of the posts not the outside ( this way the posts will help support the wire!)
The t-posts have tabs that hold the wire on firm. You could reverse it, but disassemble will be a challenge.
Having the posts on the inside keeps the wires from collapsing in.
Probably best to alternate posts on each side of the wire for most effective rigidity
Would corn grow in that set up?
So smart! Thanks for sharing. I will definitely be using some of these ideas.
Thank you sir this is genius right here! Getting my honey do list out to add to it 😂😆
I do this . I thaw the weed fabric and measure It out to how big I want the raised bed to be. And then I saw it to make it either a circle or a square and add a bottom. And then I do the Hugo culture method which is what you're doing here. Works pretty good
This is awesome. Thank you. I never would of thought of this. Thank you thank you!!!
I am so fascinated! Wow!
WOW wonderful your easy afordable garden
I think this is a great idea and better than the box version. I have the mixing so I think I'll make one too.
I never use logs as big as you have because they are great for log burners if you cut them up or just nice decoration around the garden, either to sit on or even put pots of plants on for the bees. I like to stick to smaller wood which breaks down quicker so at the end of the season I can move the raised bed easier if I need to. I tried growing so many things last year but they either failed or I didn’t eat them so I’m going to stick to simple and things I like to eat such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc which can also be pickled. I got some good pumpkins but they take over a lot of the garden!
Love your ideas! I’ve struggled with fungus gnats for years and the expense of raised gardens has made it out of my reach. No longer are these going to be a problem.
I diss look in the description for the landscaping cloth you used but couldn’t find it. What landscaping cloth do you use? Thank you
The link is in the description. It's called Sandbaggy cloth.
Another WINNER!! Love watching ur videos❣️Good stuff!!
Brilliant- love the hugulkultur aspect-
WILL try this at home!
Love this have moles or voles something eating most of my bulb plants. They moved some flowers we had a burn pile and wow I have a huge circle of cannasas. Thanks
I live in Northwestern Colorado. For voles / moles I use those pinwheels (for childs play). Just stake them close to their burrows or where you don't want them. They don't like the vibrations when the wind blows. The wind blows here kinda like it does in Wyoming.
Last year we used plastic fencing with these posts because we couldn't find chicken wire anywhere. Rabbits ate right through it and ate everything we'd planted, so when we found chicken wire online, we added that around the outside, so now it is double fenced. It's not Instagram pretty, but it worked.