How To Build Raised Garden Beds On a BUDGET || Rustic & Built To Last ||
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2018
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We get a lot of questions about our garden. Dealing with very compacted clay soil led us to exploring raised garden beds, and in our research, we discovered just how expensive they can be. So we got creative with repurposed materials and cut ours costs significantly with the added bonus of loving the "Rustic" look.
In the last few weeks, as we have completed our final three 48' long beds, Jeremiah has walked through to process explaining the materials used and how we put together these beds.
Jess and Miah are a shining example of integrity! Thank you
Awwww….little Ben singing a song for Mommy’s lovely garden beds…so precious! I’m watching this 3/17/22 and what a darling boy he was then and still is! 💗
I just want to say how much I admire you both. Watching your videos helps me to be more inspired and competent as a home gardener. But I also feel a little like I'm getting a personal growth boost listening to your up-front, goal-oriented, evidence-based, practical, and conscientious take on things. Thank you for being out there! (feeling like I'm oversharing, but the compliments are heartfelt)
Thank you kindly
For someone who physically needs raised garden beds, this is the first video i have seen packed full of the information I've been looking for. Start to finish and cost effective. Thank you so much. Amazing video!
This is so helpful to someone building their own. I was lucky to find a large bunch of discarded heat-treated 2x4s nearby. Used my 14-year old Prius like a truck and carried batch after batch. Bought 4x4s for the corners, along with high quality deck screws. Borrowed a few tools, but worked mostly with my circular saw and drill in my spare time and the beds work well. Found two basic pine bookcases being discarded. Reinforced the sides with 2x4s, removed the backs, and laid them down. I tuck beds where my tiny yard has sun and space. Continue to improve the soil with compost and "contributions" from a neighbor's rabbits. You're 100% right on quality of soil and good fasteners. Bravo!
CLT- I am a true scavenger at heart and enjoy picking up delightful goodies along the roadside. I would never have thought of using a somewhat damaged bookcase or old dressers of solid wood in this manner!🤦🏻♀️. Oh my goodness! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! That is a brilliant way to reuse some thing that was going to end up in the dump😍👍🏼🎉🙌🏼
This was an extraordinarily helpful video, but my favorite part was the Mommy's Garden Beds song.❤
Y'all, I appreciate this video. Anyone who's a creator knows how much work and editing this video was and how much time it took. SUCH value you gave people. Thank you!
And such hope YOU give people! God bless.
The only thing i would change is the lumber. If you use old motor oil and diesel to treat some untreated cedar you can save money and time while using the same frame design. We have plenty of trees to cut down out here but we dont have the equipment turn them into planks. So we would be wasting good post wood to build beds. If this the situation you find yourself in just pick up some cheap lumber some roofing tar for the post ends and some diesel and oil motor oil for the planks. All the treatment does is create a water barrier that protect the wood from rot it dont effect the plants if the water thats running off the wood is running away from your plant root zone.
Exactly right? My daughter is a producer in media. I watched this on the premise of what is assumed to be a 'cheap' way to do something---which is honorable in and of itself. The video took as much hard work as the infrastructure he was implementing!
Why would you put a checkmark by your name?
Trying to get viewers and subscribers?
Pretty lame you sheep.
Awe... two of my FAVORITE content creators! 🥰🥰
I just watched one of your newest videos mentioning that your husband is starting his own UA-cam channel and I can not wait until he does especially seeing how good he is at this. :)
THANK YOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!! Jess has taught me what, when and where to plant and I'm five weeks from moving to the new property where I'll be building my new beds so this was awesome to come across today! Yayyyy so happy. I love the little garden singer at the end there....too precious! Thank you both for being an inspiration. May your future be richly blessed ❤
Oh my, that tiny little boy at the end just melted my heart ❤️😍 that is such a precious age, definitely one of my favourites
I loved this video! So informative and easy to follow. I had to laugh at Miah and his star headed screws, my boyfriend swears by them too. Carpenters, gotta love em!
Oh, goodness! I had not seen this clip before. That sweet song at the end melted my heart ❤️.
Miah looks so young! (Don't worry, you're just getting more distinguished.) It just surprised me.
And to think.. this was the beginning of such huge success. The outreach has been phenomenal! God is working miracles through Jess and Miah, and their gardening homestead videos!
We are so eager to have our own space to create our own paradise. Phase I will be .5acre to 1 acre, hoping to direct sow, soil will be determining factor. A few laying hens and milking goats.
Phase II, upping yield and preservation. Perhaps a few piggies, or small meat creatures.
Phase III multiple acres, expansive gardens, milking cow, larger fowl, larger pigs. Community garden areas.
All if the Lord Blesses! ♡
Thank you Jess and Miah for being such wonderful living testaments! I'm so inspired by you both!
I don't know if moles and voles are a problem in your area, but I wish I had put down some wire screen on the bottom to keep them from tunneling in. Especially in my sweet potatoes. I basically created a ball pit for the suckers. They love it.
Moles are terrible we have one run that went under the driveway when it rained it looked like a two foot fountain
Such a great tip. I am so glad i read your comment. Wire screen will definitely be going in first here! Thank you
Benjamin is seriously the cutest kid ever haha
The pounds and hundreds of pound of screws we have gone through on our farm/homestead! I so agree with you, screws are the way to go! They also save you from swinging a hammer. Thanks for the great family friendly content!
Ring shank galvanized gun nails.... bam bam bam
The video was well made and informative. Loved how you called your friend brother and that you loved him for his help that's true appreciation!
I love Jess's videos but my husband is demanding more Jeremiah videos! 🤣 If he hears his voice he perks up.
He may be homosexual.
Mine too😅
@@hollyknowles5936 He may be Homosexual.
Jess has the face of a mature Rottweiler, it's so hard to un-see now!
My bf is just like miah. He hates tomatoes but loves salsa and he builds the stuff I ask him to build but doesn't have the growing passion that I have 😁
What a precious baby! Singing a song he wrote for mama! Thank you for this video. Ima show it to Jim. Maybe we will be able to do the same. I’m definitely a junker necker. I see free and low cost stuff every where! 😂
God Bless
KarolAnn
Omgosh... I love this video. I just picked up some panels from my cousin who was about to dump them. Everyone asking me why & what are you going to so with those. (Trash) THIS is perfect. I've been wondering what I was going to use for my raised beds. I know this video is like 3 yrs old and you guys are at your new place. 😁 but I appreciate you sharing. ~Sammie 😁 Blue Feather Homestead
Nice job and you need those posts in concrete for those lengths. I built 4 beds last year for my small townhouse garden, 2 are 1x4.6 m and 2 are 1 m square, all 50 cm high. I shopped around and found some very nice, inexpensive, untreated recycled European pine planks and posts and the cost was really not so much and just climbed in with my drill and screws and put them together. My gardener helped getting the soil into the beds and I used cardboard layers for the bottoms, as well as some hugel kultur old logs and branches underneath the soil. Garden looking pretty good. The long beds I did cross brace in the centre so as not to bulge out with weight of the soil. So even for an older, single woman, it is possible :-D Garden looking pretty good, one long bed has veggies and the other beds have different berries with the 2 smaller boxes each with an Elderberry
I kinda like the rustic look of the cedar slabs.
We live in Canada and I was looking for information on raised gardens. This is a really well-made video and is so instructional for people like us who are not terribly handy. I really like how you broke things down. The advice you gave at the end of the video was wonderful, too. We are older, so some of this we knew (yet still, no beds yet!) but you were very clear. Thanks also for the musical interlude at the end. It was very much appreciated.
The last 30 seconds was the best part of my entire week and I had an AMAZING week!! My business was blessed with a new location and I was able to help a friend who has been displaced with 2 children. But that sweet, little adorable voice with the cute dance made me smile ear to ear.
As an educator I, feel that Miah and Jess would be an asset to any school system..you two master a lost arts..to all the young agri.guys and girls in society . Please share all these videos ..of Jess and Miha...this young couple holds a treasure of knowledge bursting into life...Jess reminds me of a young Janis.. 💓
Thank you so much
That’s a great idea! After watching her canning video, I learned alongside my daughter as we canned some of our garden harvest in small batches.
I think because you all live outside of big cities, you are just nice, calm speaking folks. Really enjoy this about you all and your video. Continued success with your YT and thank you for sharing everything you all do. It helps many of us to see how much quality of life is when homesteading or just living off of your own. GREAT JOB !!
I think it's important to note that the wood used is cedar because it is very very slow to rot. Other types of wood will not work because they will rot very quickly. You may have mentioned that and I just missed it. Awesome tutorial! I love the repurposing of materials.
He said cedar like 18 times during the video.
But thanks 👌
This is about when I started following you guys. Now you have 480K followers 🥰 and are at your new property 🥰
I’ve learned a lot on this video, thanks for taking the time. You got detailed and I appreciate that. Sorry dad but that little squirt singing at the end just make my heart sing. You are a fortunate man Jeremiah.
I LOVE THIS GARDEN !!! THE MORE RUSTIC,,,, THE MORE I LIKE !!!!
The bonus clip at the end: sweetest little boy in the whole world
You guys are blessed to have that big land. You can still do garden without buying soil and all those material to make beds. It just take a little bit of time. I like vegetable but i have experience that small garden is enough to feed small family.
I just love the overall look of these garden beds.. beautiful and have that rustic look to them.. I love it!
I love love love your “down to earth” farm and techniques! Very attainable. Beautiful. And the teaching is very thorough. Thank you.
Time spent is important 😊
Love the rustic look of your beds, yet built to last. Y’all are good stewards of His garden!
Thanks for showing how you made the garden beds! And what a handsome little man to sing to his Momma!
How precious at the end!!!! Thank you!!
Working together with Mother Nature. Fitness and health. Fun, friendship, laughter, love of companionship and community. Accruing a treasure trove of memories. Sharing of skills and knowledge. The old barter system at its most basic and best.
Live in North Texas where they call this ground black gumbo. When it rains it stick to your shoe, in summer it dries and crack wide enough to step into and the sharpshooter goes to the foot cleat
man, this was a blast from the past lol
What an awesome video! l just stumbled across your channel and find you guys to be so uplifting and encouraging. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
Real good job. I built similar beds, and everyone in the county knew it when I ripped sheets of roof metal in half. Sounds like Godzilla fighting a giant house cat.
How do you cut metal?
@@maryclairechittwood1852 Circular saw. You can buy special metal cutting blades, but I just used a backwards wood cutting blade (simple blade Without carbide teeth). Goggles and ear protection is a must.
I really enjoyed this video. You and your lady honey (wife) are so beautiful together. I love seeing you two work together. It looks hard, but you two make it look like it can be done and it won't seem so hard, especially with friends like "your brother" (name Daniel, right?). You are lucky to have great friends and they're lucky to have you too. I was viewing this video, then 1/2 way thru, I had to go to work. When I tried to find it, I lost it. I've been searching for it (& her/your arched trellis vid) for 1 month. I'm so happy I found them. I'm over 60 and it's hard to navigate this technology. Keep up the projects, let the kids keep laughing/talking in the background and stay together. You two are a winning combo. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much Sherri!!!!!
Gestapo Utube ALWAYS does this to me if I pause a video for even a few minutes...pisses me off!
@@janemiller5396 I made a short cut for my grandma on her bookmark bar: "youtube . com / feed / history" (without the spaces). I'm young and I have trouble finding it too!
Jess and Miah, I'm just watching this and thinking how much you've grown your farm in the last three years since this was made. Just think how much you can do with your new farm in the next three years! x
I absolutely love seeing people reuse materials and have the projects work for them. Better for the earth and the pocketbook! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you Miah and Jess for such an amazing video. I have pallets of steel roofing that's been an eye sore behind my garage for years. The local sawmill is delivering my edgings this week ($20 per huge bundle and delivered because we are only 2 miles away). We have lots of cedar trees on our property so we've already taken them down and cut to length for all of the posts. We are building 4 beds at 4x32 and 8 beds at 4 x16... All 18" deep.
Compost is coming from my horse and cattle pasture. 8 years of broken down black gold. More than enough for all the beds.
I am sooooo looking forward to the divorce from my 7000sf in-ground garden.
I like the way that you guys are so appreciated to your friends and families. So inspiring and loving! Looking forward to more videos.
Love you guys, what you stand for & your videos!! Last, but NOT LEAST, I also LOVE that you are a Retired Marine family too!! 💓...
Hello from Salem, Arkansas . Started gardening in old free frig.s. making . You give ideas. " Start where you are , use what you have and do the best you can. " Looking for the next level of gardening. Yes the Freon has been removed. Great work on the garden. Thanks
Thanks for making this video it was very insightful and I really appreciate your detailed instructions my question is what fasteners did you use to fasten the metal to the posts again I really appreciate it it was good to see the actual inside information details about your construction of your bed and I’ll put it to good use thank you very much and happy Father’s Day
The best part of this video is the singer at the end. Lol
Circles are easy -- cut off culverts make great raised beds.
So adorable.
I love Ben's song! How sweet!
It's great having a friend to lend a helping hand. Great job. I agree about the screws. Do it right the first time.
Great video with a ton of knowledge. Thank you!
Amazing workmanship and creative beds....your visions are fascinating to watch come about...A man with working hands that do amazing things...may you both have spiritual guides that guide your family...
Hey guys thank you for your time in teaching us how we can better feed ourselves for less contamination and financial cost. I have a huge respect for you. I also have some raised garden beds, and fruit trees i am inundated with ants that atm are eating more than we do but i am working on it.
So much appreciated to have you take the time and energy to film this, which I know is not easy. I am profoundly thankful to see how you thought about this, sourced it, and implemented it (not to mention, 'squaring things...'). This is quality stuff for what might look like on the surface, a cheap way to build beds. It's not cheap and it's good quality. You are quite intelligent and articulate. It's does not go unnoticed for those of us who have done construction and frankly, IT. LOL. Many thanks on the aspects of the thought and build of the infrastructure here. I LOVE THIS.
oh yeah yay, I was wanting to see a video of how you built her beds, thnx Sweet Miah for sharing. Oh I am thrilled I just found enough of those building supplies to build me a nice bed. I am going to have to dig those post holes myself. Oh man you sure are right about it being nice to have the help. I am a disabled 61 yr old woman, and what ever is done around here, I must do it myself. I just found out our dog has knocked our septic lines apart under our double wide trailer home to not just one but BOTH of our toilets and we have raw sewage dumping right under our home. I am going to have to find my knee pads, since over the years I have fallen and busted both my knee caps and can't stand to get on my knees, and crawl up under there and fix our septic myself. I am so grossed out by that, you have no idea! My husband has a broke back and can barely go down our steps to our porch, (I wouldn't let him get under there, he would be flat of his back for days.) We just can't afford to pay for it to be done again, we paid someone $200 to fix our septic line just last yr I believe, I tried to get him to come back and fix it, but he didn't seem it was important to him, and altho he told me he would, he left the state without coming by when he said he would, so if its meant to be, it is up to me. Honestly, I thought my golden yrs would be easier.
Great video, Jeremiah. The details you included, like how you made the corners and what type of screws to use, really made the video.
Edit: Thank you for sharing.
Yep, never throw anything out. All the best from 30 minutes south of Russellville, AR
I love both of you. I have been watching your channel for awhile now. I am currently in my waiting room but living on 1/2 acre and have decided to turn this house into my classroom while I wait for land. This is awesome video. I am so glad to know that I can bring my thriftiness (is that a word?) into my homesteading. Thank you both for being so awesome and such an inspiration to so many more people than you know.
If your raised bed is 1 - 3 feet deep you don't need the weed barrier in the bottom of the bed. any weeds would be smothered out with the soil. You could save $30 and a trip to Sam's. I love your videos. I want to do some beds with metal fence posts. We have too many rocks to be able to dig the holes. Good job.
Let us know how that goes! Im up for ideas on anything for beds. Im not familiar with how to do them, so any ideas are great! Good luck!
We have common and coastal bermuda grass here. That stuff came up in a raised flower bed that was 2 + ft. deep. We had to dismantle it and completely redo that bed. We used concrete board and landscape fabric on the base this time.
Agree, would be able to apply that money to Tank top shirts or something :)
I also thought your suppose to put fine wire mesh screen in the bottom to keep moles out and any other pesky varmints.
We use csrboard from old cereal boxes or whatver we have lying around as weed barrier at the bottom of our bed s👍 free!!!!
The tin snips come in 3 colors. They are called aviation snips. Green is left cut, red is right cut, yellow is straight cut.
I just now got to see this video, thank you Jeremiah for explaining everything so well. This really helps.
Wooohoooo! Found it❣
I have a good supply of tin (left by previous owner) so now I can get started 😘 Thank you, your husband and friends for demonstrating raised garden bed on a dime🤗
I love your raised bed garden. I so wanted to see how they were put together. Thank you, for all the inspiration in your videos. My family and I are taking steps to start our own homestead. We have gleaned so much information and ideas, from Roots and Refuge. Thank you again, for all the blessings. Your Admirers In Central Georgia!!!!
fantastic video, thank you for all the details for those of us new to this life, and have worked in offices all our careers. Blessings.
Baby Ben, cutest farm boy in the south!
Thank you! This video was really helpful. I'm really in to "using what you already have" and reuse. 🙏🌱🍀🥒🥦🍆🍅🌽🌶
Such a cutie pie and nice singing voice!
Thank you SO much for this video and info!
Jeremiah and Daniel...you make awesome videos. I hope to see more. Keep up the great work. 🙌🏼🌱
Fabulous thought process and ability to see the value of those cedar slabs....most people would not be able to picture their use. Great tips on finding what you needed and making your ideas into a flourishing garden space.
I thought Jeremiah was the quiet one! Great job on the video, Bud. Thank you for sharing
bhharris this might be one of the only times I’ve been called quiet! 🤣 Jessica rightfully steals the show 99% of the time because to be honest she is pretty exceptional!!
You two are awesome!💝🌟🌿
I love your raised beds. They are unique and beautiful.
I know, its the first thing I noticed on watching the first video from them!
Jeremiah this was an awesome video! We also repurpose and seek bargains why spend the cash if there is other options? We don't have raised beds yet but this has inspired me. Thank you for sharing this.
Always love going back & watching how you put together your garden beds. 💚💚 Yes, still “binge rewatching.”
Just found you all last month and really appreciate the instruction as I plan what kind of beds to put in the back yard. You all are such a sweet family. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
Watching in 2019. I hope you had fun making your garden pretty this year!! Thank you for taking the time to talk about budget and working in phases. ❤️
What a fantastic video, full of good tips and ideas that anyone can use. Thank you for taking the time to document (and now looking at more recent videos and seeing how well your gardens are growing really shows the rewards of your labor) Really enjoyed this
I love how yall reuse stuff and give it a second life. Plus it gives you back food. amazing this will be me a small carbon foot print.
Amazing job everyone. Love love love your videos! You are truly inspiring, such humble and down to earth people. Thank you for sharing and keep them coming, please! Ps. Ben is so cute and sweet, lovely song too he sang for his mummy!😍
Thankyou and your wife. Am loving all the lessons. Thankyou from New Zealand. Awesome and simple tutorials.
Thank you for your great ideas for gathering materials! I just recently decided to do 2 raised garden beds. I watching your videos and I just had to do it this coming spring. Wish me luck and Thank you for the great ideas. My hubby has all kinds of boards and tin laying around gathering dust. Ideas are already popping up....lol! Stay blessed! ~MG
To help prevent moles and gophers lay .5" garden hardware cloth/fencing under the weed fabric.
Really great advice, man! I like how they're coming out for you, and the wire trellises look great!
I am so happy that I found this channel. I just LOVE your garden and homestead! What type of irrigation do you use in your beds? It looks like soaker hoses.
I swear you guys are Total Rock Stars!!!!!! Inspiring! Keep it up forever!
Awesome how y’all work together. As God intends. ❤️
Great video!!
Came across your videos last night and I love your garden. I'm not a carpenter but I'm going to try some of this on my 3 acre shack as soon as I can get the land cleared.
Thank you, for all this information it will greatly help when we get to make some raised beds ❤️
I am doing the same design as you guys but instead of using fabric I used cardboard. Thanks for the ideas tho much appreciated.
Ditto!! Exactly what we're doing now for fall garden. Yup. Freeeeeee cardboard
Way ahead of the pack! Great teamwork and look at the results!
Thanks, Jeremiah. I really appreciate your videos/appearances. My truck is out of commission and I priced a soil delivery. IT WAS MORE THAN THE SOIL MIX. Insane. You'[re right about not cutting costs on fasteners too.