Raised Garden Bed- Filling and Grid Tutorial- Square Foot Gardening
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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Gardening season is in full swing and I'm trying out some raised garden beds on the farm thus year to improve or water drainage issues. We've been getting a lot of rain and or clay soil is getting really compacted and takes forever to drain. So raised garden beds it is! We are trying the very popular square foot gardening method made famous by Mel Bartholomew author of the Square Foot Gardening book series.
In this video I tell you what we are filling our raised beds with and I teach you how to create the grid that really makes square foot gardening what it is.
Supplies you'll need:
• measuring tape
• hammer
• nails or screws
• twine, rope, etc. (you can also use wooden trim or sticks, pvc, etc)
• pencil for marking wood
This 4 foot x 4 foot raised bed cost me just under $15 and is a great way to start growing food, herbs or even just flowers. This is the size suggested in the Square Foot Gardening method. You can learn how to make this raised bed with my step-by-step video tutorial here: • How to Build a Raised ...
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Where have you been all my gardening life? You make these things look so simple. Very clear and concise directions, thanks!
I absolutely love how you involve your kids with your projects! Great bonding time for all.
I love how you have the children helping you, and the back ground "music" of the birds and bugs are great too!
You are awesome, your kids are wonderful it’s nice to see them involved. Thank you
can tell from this alone you are an amazing mother ! you go girl
I think it's so great you get your kids involved in stuff like this. more kids should know where their food comes from and how to grow it. keep making videos because you're awesome!
I love that you teaching your youths culture.
Nicely done! I used square-foot gardening at our last house and loved it. I did use the Mel's Mix and it worked well in our Midwestern clime. One thing I did was used eyelet screws to hold the rope. It worked well and I didn't have any problem with hurting myself on the eyelets even though they stuck up probably 1/2 inch from the surface of the wooden raised bed. Good luck with yours!
After letting my husband view your two videos on the square foot garden her is all in! He has built the boxes and we are ready to begin our garden! Thank you! I would to see more videos on how you care for your garden as well as your progress!
Vanessa, you're awesome!!! My husband just followed your last video and made 3 beds for his mom for Mother's Day!! Thanks to me being subscribed to you haha!! I just sent them both this video!!! Love ya!!!
haha. Love it! You never what you might learn from watching my vids, eh? Thanks for your support, girl. :)
Today i bought all the wood for my raised bed garden. Went to the home depot and asked for the scrap wood. The had a huge cart full of unsightly lumber. I bought 1 x 6 by 8ft for $1.04 each piece! I bought 4 pieces. I also bought a few 2x4 x 12ft for $2.10 each! Im so happy! I saved a lot of money. They also had burpee seeds buy one get one free!. If anyone is thinking they cant afford the lumber just go to the home depot or lowes and ask for the scrap or the bad lumber. They always have a cart full of the bad stuff they cant sell. They have all different size lumber on that cart.
I love your simple and thorough teaching style you've really inspired me! I have 3 little hands to help me too!
Ugh wish I had a yard, can't wait to have a garden again..
They help the mother from small days and they are Great kids.Enjoyed this video a lot.Thanks!
I was looking for a square foot bed video,and saw yours. Everything was easy to follow...thank you for doing videos that help us save money...you and your little helpers are awesome!!
I just want to say, I saw your videos, loved how you explain everything ( me being a newbie in gardening) I'm sure even I can do this, thx for sharing :-) also your kids are adorable.
I watched that gardening show on PBS, it was always how I would want to garden.
I would love to see a video of how you planted your raised beds and what plants you chose. Love your videos!
Nice video. Would love to see you putting the plants in
My boyfriend and I move into our first house in two weeks or so and I want to start a garden SO bad. This video was super helpful. I plan on growing onions and garlic as they do well in fall weather from what I've read. I'm stoked!!
Thank you for the clarity! I've been looking through what feels like hundreds of videos before I came to you. This is exactly what I was looking for. Extremely helpful, thank you!!!
i made this exact garden bed. my mother loves it. thanks and god bless
You are a fabulous teacher. I am so excited to try this. Also, your kids are just the cutest and you seem like such a good momma! Thank you for your videos!
You made it so easy. Thank you and I love John's entertainment. Allie and Johm were great assistants.
I like your channel. Im doing a raised bed for the first time this year. Going to be 4ft by 16ft by 1ft. Around here they give away mushroom compost by the truckload for free. I just have to get the wood from home depot. And chicken wire. I like how you explain everything in detail. I cant wait!!
you have two great helpers!
I loved this video! thanks for sharing the techniques and I love how your kids are involved in the process as well! can't wait to see how everything grows.
I love this and def going to do this. I'm sure the wood is more expensive now though but still I think it'll be ok have many boxes already that I purchased last year. I love all your video .....thank you so much!
Nice! Love that your cute kiddos helped!
Thank you so much!!! Very simple to follow!!!
Your babies are adorable!
awww those little ones!! your son got so big!!
Hey I am Frydaddy from Georgia Thanks for your tips they really help Good looking kids.
I'll try it. You're videos really put a smile on my face :)
You & your children are great teachers:)
Thank you for the video! I was about to use wood, but thought how awkward it'd be if I did. I'm totally using vinyl rope this year!
This is great, I'm getting ready to start my first garden this year and your videos have been so helpful! Thanks!
We'll give it a try! Thanks for the tips. Cute kids!
Awesome Tutorial! You Rock! Beautiful kids!
Great video, new to gardening and this was very informative . thank you
Can't wait to see your garden grow!! :)
My word...your babies are beautiful! I just wanna squeeze on 'em a bit :-D Thanks for your great ideas!
I so enjoy your videos and the kids are such an added bonus!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you! I am going to do this just as you demonstrated. Very clear : )
Great job! Now do you hv a video of the types of plants that can grow in this box? I know there are by other people but I'd love to see yours.
Really you done very wel, keep it up
I love your kids....♡♡♡
great video..
..cute kids..
Thanks for this video.
perfect!!!! now I am going to create it!!!!
I will try it thanks
Wonderful step by step, I also watched your how to on the raised garden beds. Did you happen to take any photos of your garden after you planted in it? I live in the city and will be doing these this year. I live in a pretty hot climate so I've started ally seeds indoor and they're about ready to be harden for outside. Hope all is well with you and hopefully you post an update.
I tried the SF garden many yrs ago using the Mel's mix. I had good initial results but my garden was not in a close by location & out of sight = out of mind, so I ended up scraping the whole thing recently after it filled up with weeds. :(
Nice vid, thank you. And your kids are awesome :)
some great ideas. Thank you.
Thank you! Very helpful.
wonderful sis!
Great video. I've subscribed to your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Omg so cute with the kids!
My aunt told me I had to visit Simply Love Gardening (search on google). I got everything I needed from one place.
lol you read Mel Bartholomews book "square foot gardening", he's the first person ive seen to promote this method. it's great, right?
Super mom, thumps up
Hi Vanessa. Thank you for the simple video. Since it's been a few years since this video, have you made any adjustments to your soil mixture?
nice! i like it! :D thank you for the idea! :D i'm ion the city , so i can grab this idea for my little garden! :D thank you
What kind of plants can you grow? By the way you've got awesome videos.
Very Informative information, this helped me out a lot so thank you very much, but I have red dirt where i live can I incorporate planting soil in it and have a great garden success as well?.
We did this in the 80s from that book. Lol
awesome
Great video. How do you figure out how much soil is needed?
I will definitely try this at home!
I
m new at gardening. What compost do you recommend from Home depot?
Any updates on how your raised beds and square foot gardening went?
Great job. I would like to mention you in my videos...is that ok? If so what name should I use or keyword for them to find you better?
omg are u kids aliens? I love them they are cute and very helpful, can I borrow them for a while just so they can help me with my gardening? just kidding really good vids keep em coming... thanks a loy
Que bonito gostei
I am planning on starting a raised vegetable garden. Can I use pressure treated wood safely? Will it lech chemicals and if they do leak, are these chemicals harmful when I eat the vegetables? TIA
I'm new to gardening and I want to prepare myself for this new year my planting in raised beds.. May I ask how do the grids help?
Adriana Vega The grids make it easier to see the "square foot". Each square will grow something different. Its a great method especially if you're new because you can grow a lot of food in a small space and its very easy to tell what are weeds because they are not in the "grid" pattern. Here's a great page I found that has a summary of S.F.G method. www.plantandplate.com/how-to-plant-a-square-foot-garden/
some uses plastic sheets on their bed before dumping the soil.
Dumb question. What is the grid for?
Like the védeo 😊
Can we have a update?
Кто-нибудь понял для чего эти верёвочки?
what's the purpose of the grid?
+Brenda Coats square foot gardening! how many different veggies you can grow in a square foot!