DIY Raised Garden Beds - Planting Our First Garden!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Follow along as we build our own raised garden beds 🌱, set up our first irrigation system, and take delivery of fresh topsoil to kickstart our gardening journey. We’re learning as we go, figuring out the best way to plant our first seeds and grow our own vegetables and greens!
From DIY garden bed construction to irrigation setup and soil prep, this video is all about getting hands-on and creating a thriving space for fresh homegrown food.
Let us know in the comments what you’re planting this season!
Use your chicken coop bedding for the bottom of the beds. Enjoy your videos.
Bury the waterline from the well. You saw the water was hot. That sun will heat up that water hose and pop the hose from pressure. Plus, watering with hot water is not good for the plants.
placing small branches and old newspaper/cardboard in the bottom of the beds is a good idea to save using so much topsoil. Also, all that good stuff you cleaned from the coop would be great in the beds.
@@bobbonner1314 only organic. Cardboard and especially newspaper has toxins in them that can be harmful
Good idea, thank you! How much of the 18" in depth should be topsoil vs the base?
That's wath a front loader on the tractor is for 👍
I would recommend building the next set taller so you don't have to lean over as much during harvesting. My raised beds are smaller like that and it kills my back everytime. Just a thought for when you are harvesting everyday so you don't end up with back problems later on.
Rotate those 1/4 inch lines down, so they are watering the soil, not the air or plants. Saves on evaporation loss.
We'll do that, thanks!
Watched every video and subbed. Don't know why y'all ain't at 100K yet. Guy's we need to get to work and let our family and friends know. I've been telling ones about this channel. Can't wait to one day have a small portion of this. Love you guys like I know you. 👊🏾🙏🏾
Have the dump truck fill the first one then the second. You'll only need to shovel up overfill😊
I would add branches/small logs to the bottom of the raised beds and then add your soil so you don't need quite as much and the logs will break down and feed your soil. Use your tractor and bucket. Work smarter, not harder. Good job!
This is a great idea and you are going to enjoy your garden.
These are some recommendations.
1. Purchase Vego Garden metal beds that can be delivered to you. Assembly required. These beds will last many years and retain the aesthetic look.
2. A gardener grows soil. The plants will produce because of it. Garden beds can only get nutrients by your interaction. The bed can be filled with a mixture of topsoil, compost, perlite, peat moss, and manure.
3. Plants may need periodic fertilizer feedings during its growing season.
4. The shovel needed in the chicken coop is called a scoop shovel. It has a wide blade made of plastic or aluminum. Aluminum will last longer.
Your beds look very good. Nothing wrong with your choice in the country environment.
Great tips, thanks! 😊
Use the Tractor to scoop the dirt
There’s no bucket. More money than brains they have
Front loader still on order for another couple weeks! 😅
Typically leafy greens are a fall crop in Florida. Potatoes are planted on February 14th, and followed by Spring crops in March. All leafy greens vegetables (broccoli, greens, spinach, cabbage, etc.) are planted in the Fall. But maybe you will get a few sprouts before it gets too hot and everything bolts. Good luck to you both. Also - use the tractor for that dirt.
Good to know! So we better get cracking on our potatoes then. We were thinking about doing sweet potatoes in one of the pastures.
Well done ❤️🏴
Make sure you have vegetables that can be in together. Some don't do very well with others
Most of us plant in door in a green house or a or a hot sweaty plate use a green light annual everything will sprout up and then place your bet we always start at this time of the year with potatoes
I would move those garden beds and design the garden you want right by the water source instead running a garden hose however far away that was
NOTE: Above ground garden beds are the way to go but i went one step further and made above ground Hugelkultur garden beds and love them. Mine are 3'h x 5'w x 10'l. all from cedar trees from our property that i had a friend mill the wood down for us by far the best thing we ever did. I start my seed soon here in my garage garden room, I Love your videos keep up with the great work.
Wow! You probably saved a ton of money doing that, the wood we went with was very pricey from Lowes so it would be nice to have a cheaper alternative for the rest
The shovel you need is one like an old coal shovel
Tractor and loader, to fill the beds
Great Job !
Use a stick to make a trench to the depth you want. Put your seeds in and carefully cover them. For micro greens, I have always just broadcast them across the area and lightly raked them In.
Nice job you to done
Didn't you get a loader on the front of your mammoth JD? Use it to fill the new beds? When you get your horses and are cleaning your stalls (which you will lime), start a big compost pile and turn it every few months with the loader. In a year or less, you will have a ton of topsoil to use in the future. Those stall shavings will turn into the richest soil you have ever seen. Oh, and the same thing for the chicken litter. Do a little research on the nitrogen levels in chicken litter.
BTW, you will use the lime to cancel the urine odor in the stalls. Keep having fun guys. Nice job on the beds.😃
Right now we just have the loader arms but no bucket, still on order from JD unfortunately! Hopefully it will deliver in a couple weeks and that will make it a lot easier! 😂 Thank you for the tips! We're going to start a compost pile today, that should save a ton of time and money hopefully.
May I suggest sand as your bedding g for the chicken coop. It doesn’t stink, absorbs the urine and it evaporates and the poop sits on top to be raked off with a leaf rake. Shovel it into a bucket to add to your compost pile. Takes about 10-15 mins to clean. When your sand starts getting low just add more. It’s so much easier and keeps their feet in good shape. Read about it in chicken forums. I think you will love it. Love your channel and enjoying watching you build your homestead.
Chickens don’t urinate
When you build your barn they do make bird proof rafters so your equipment and everything else on the floor of the barn will not have poop all over it.
get a front end loader for your tractor to fill the beds
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A plastic shovel will be a lot faster at picking up the chicken waste cleanup. Also a miter saw will help cut lumber precisely and faster.
Use your chi ken manure as the base in the plantbed and top up with top soil, chicken manure is highly used as fertiliser for plants.
Thanks! Should we put it in a compost bin first? We need to learn more about composting
@NavigationFarm you don't need to place it in the composter, you can let the shaving stay on the coop for longer and just turn it over every 3 days.
The longer it stays with the chickens the better the fertiliser will be for the veggies
Looks great. One thing I would for sure do is cut that young pine tree down that's right there by your raised beds, and any others you find that you know you're not going to want in the future.
Good point, we'll do that ASAP, thanks!
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Helpful tip, hold the other side with your left hand and let the wood drop. Otherwise the saw is gonna kick back at some point and shove the saw into ya your hurt your wrist
Thanks! 😅
Use your JD tractor to put dirt in your gardens.
Do you not have a bucket on your tractor? Would make short work of loading the garden beds.
Ya'll build like I do and now I have back problems(lol). Please take care of yourselves and get saw horses or work tables so you don't have to bend over as much. It will save your back.
You might consider finding some Amish folks to help you design your farm, so it's as efficient as possible.
Should have used the stuff that you cleaned out of the chicken coop
Chicken bedding would have been good for the bottom of the beds...right? Are you doing anything about the deer? they will eat everything.
Where is the loader for the tractor?
Still waiting on delivery! 🥲
Start a compost bin.
Use your equipment to fill beds. I would use my hand to make a row and spread seeds in row.
Use the John Deere loader on the tractor
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You need to use a rounded pointed shovel not a square one
Be careful with sunglasses if they don’t have safety ratings. The glass can shatter and get into your eyes
Safety glasses on order!
And hair secured back when using power tools 😊
What happened to chickens, where are they 😂
Haha they were in the run while we were cleaning!
what's the purpose of the raised garden beds vs just planting in the ground?
We have a lot of fire ants and ground pests so hopefully the raised beds avoid some plant damage, we'll keep everyone updated!
Your soil is going to settle quite a bit
A minor you shudda ,put a bunch of filler about a foot deep and the rest ,topsoil.
Hand shoveling when you have a brand new tractor parked in the back...just sayin'...
Back the truck up and dump in box not on ground
Use your tractor! Or have the truck dump it in the beds!
Use your tractor
You should have used you chicken waste in the bottom of your raised beds
Plant marigolds around the edges so the other animals won't eat your vegetables
Does that work?! If so, we will definitely do that 😯
They're definitely to close together
Hopefully the garden beds are not in the path of cows etc
Definitely not in the path of the cows, but how far apart do you recommend the beds to be? We can adjust the others when we build them!
@@NavigationFarmput em far enough apart so the lawnmower can pass
We live on Flat Earth
Surprised me, I thought y'all were actually going to put in an actual garden. (i.e.) plow, disk, layout a ground garden.
We will! Baby steps for now until more of our equipment comes in 😅
@@NavigationFarm Well cool. FFT, y'all can use the raised beds for your table leaf vegetables (lettuce, radish, etc) and keep them up off the ground from the little critters to munch on....course y'al have deer to deal with.
That looked like pressure treated wood which will leach really bad chemicals into your food! Very bad stuff for you,and your family!
Not treated! We were told the same thing luckily, just natural cedar, but very expensive! It would be nice to find a cheaper alternative.
Sounds like you.People need help with the carpenters.Somebody worked on a farm and raises organic gardens and can build a house from the ground up