Building Raised Garden Beds | Allotment Episode 3
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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Today, we're tackling a super fun project: Building Raised Beds on a Budget for a Friend's Allotment! If you’ve ever wanted to create a lush garden without spending a ton of money, you’re in the right place. We're going to walk you through the entire process, from planning to planting, using affordable and recycled materials. Let's get our hands dirty and make something amazing!
🛠️ Here’s What We’ll Cover:
Planning and Design: We’ll start by sketching out our raised beds and figuring out the best layout for maximum plant happiness.
Materials: No need to splurge- we'll show you how to source cheap or free materials like reclaimed wood, bricks, and other upcycled treasures.
Construction: Step-by-step instructions on how to build sturdy raised beds that will last.
Soil Mix: Creating the perfect mix of soil for healthy, thriving plants.
Planting Tips: What to plant and how to arrange everything for a gorgeous and productive garden.
📝 Here’s What You’ll Need:
Reclaimed wood or other upcycled materials
Screws/nails and a hammer/drill
Soil mix components (compost, topsoil, etc.)
Measuring tape and level
Basic gardening tools
🔧 Tools You’ll Need:
Hammer or drill
Saw (if cutting wood)
Level
Measuring tape
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A really good start. Good of you to help Shane kick start his allotment. My Godson started an allotment last year, this year I think his neighbours will be well stocked up with fruit n veg. Shane will soon be growing healthy produce. Yes keep us updated.
Thanks Lynn 👌
Hi Alex, really nice of you to help Shane get started. My husband took on an allotment about 3 years ago, it had been totally neglected for ages. It took us about 6 weeks to cut down the knee high weeds, dig out areas (peeps had been dumping their excess soil & weeds there 😠), level the ground, get the basics sorted. He completely rebuilt the big greenhouse with salvaged glass, and used free pallet wood to build tool shed & wood storage behind it plus potting tables. Last year he built raised beds, again using pallet wood & used decking boards, we got good harvest, he’s improved it even more this year and we’re reaping the benefits! We saved old rhubarb & strawberry plants, plus several fruit trees. It’s worth all the effort! PS he got some free old paving stones and uses them between the beds, cuts down on maintenance.
What a wonderful thing to do for your friend. Helping him get started is an amazing gift. Plus, you can get some fresh veges and fruit so all can keep healthy. Bravo gents.
As a gardener, Alex I would be thrilled to have a friend do this for my birthday! You’re the best! Happy Birthday Shane!!
You're a good friend. Very generous with your time and talent.
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This is friendship! Love following this allotment saga! 😊
I think it is so great that you and Shane share your skills and knowledge with each other. Friends truly enrich our lives. Happy Birthday Shane. Thanks for letting us share in your introduction to gardening. Love your dog! Happy Summer.
Thanks Staceyyy
Great gift for your friend. Can’t wait to see plants thriving in these beds.
This is such an enjoyable adventure. We don’t have allotments here in Texas but in my 70+ years I’ve always attempted grow something in the hot dry environment. I love seeing all of your "green" growing and am praying for a bountiful harvest from all of both of your hard work. How are the froggies doing?
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Thank youuu and thanks for watching!! 😊
No updates on the frogs as of yet I'm afriad
I’m a flower gardener but still enjoy these allotment videos. I did begin gardening with vegetables when I was 18 (50 years ago) and had my first garden though. I think you are both doing a great job
Thank you!!
As he gets to growing, he'll expand to 3 beds across. Great job!!
Thank you 🤩
That was a wonderful birthday present! You are truly a great friend. You can tell he was surprised lol See you next time Alex!
What a great idea as a birthday present! 👍🏻❤️
Because I'm lazy I prefer the no dig method. Just put old cardboard on the grass and then the soil on top. 😊
Awww I love his doggie. ❤
Really loving this series following Shane and his allotment, makes interesting viewing seeing friends help each other. So envious of that wonderful soil watching from ‘clay city’!
Awesome. Now I want garden beds.
Alexi jsi obdivuhodný zahradník, ale i přítel. Je to moc dobře, že mu pomahas. Každý má jiný dar. On umí určitě zase jiné věci. Moc vám fandím a děkuji!! 👍🌿👍🌹👋
I love the two coloured style of your gloves :-)
Great job for your friend!😊
Thank you 🙏
Great job on these beds. Happy birthday Shane !!
Smooth inside so less surface for moist soil to cause rot. I'm liking these plot videos it almost makes me want to weed our flowerbeds.
Thank youuu and thanks for watching!! 😊
Here in Michigan, USA, we don’t have allotments. Do you have to purchase or lease the land? The ones that I have seen on UA-cam are always so messy. You and Shane are going to make this one top notch. I hope that we get to see the vegetables that he harvests in the fall. You two have very different skill sets but that’s what makes good fiends and a good team.
Am going to check if Home Depot has one of those dirt cutting tools! Good job!
Happy Early Birthday Shane! 🎉🎈🎉 Well done Alex. 😊 Really enjoy watching the progress. 👍👍
Thank youuu and thanks for watching!! 😊
Roll on harvest time!!
So enjoy these videos. You are a great friend to help Shane with his garden. Can't wait to see what is planted and watch it all grow.
Thank youuu and thanks for watching!! 😊
Lovely job! You’re a good friend, as is he!
Thank you 😊
Nice job. I'm looking forward to seeing the progress.
What a great gift. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent job and darned hard work! Keep us in tow as your work pays off & starts to grow. 😅
That's a great surprise. I've helped a friend and neighbor do yard work.
It's actually more fun together. Happy one Shane!!👍👍
You did a great job marking out those beds and spending time to really clean them out. I would love those 20 bags of compost for a birthday gift. I hope he had a couple of drinks to celebrate. There is nothing wrong with low cost. You can always upgrade a few years down the road. Reusable materials are getting to be more the norm. Have a great weekend, and I hope to see another video next week❤❤❤❤❤
Great you bought Shane compost, soil for his birthday. We call that organic garden soil here in the States. Compost is the organic matter we make at home in a compost bin. All in all things are shaping up beautifully. Question…do you pay for your allotment? Your a good friend 👍🏻
Love it!!
Nice birthday present! 😊❤
Nice,just keep doing what you do best.be safe.good video.😎😎😎👍👍👍
I saw a great suggestion for raised beds on Gardener's World - It was to put the turves upside down in the bottom of raised beds- the grass rots and adds vegetable matter and of course the dirt is useful. I would think the beds would have to be higher than these though, as at this depth the grass might just grow again.
You two are doing a fine job. Very relaxing to watch someone else putting in the hard yards, haha.
Lovely!! Thank you 💜
Looking good...and more updates right? I would love to see the finish!
Great job Alex. I’m sure Shane will be really happy with the progress.
You have the best environment for growing there. Everything should thrive nicely! Unfortunately here in Pennsylvania my fenced-in veggie garden fed the local fauna. We couldn’t even keep the groundhogs out with large boulders. I finally gave up. Good luck to Shane! Wishing him a great harvest. Just wondering if the wood is pressure treated?
Great work!! If I were a vegetable, I would definitely love to grow there! What a nice gift for Shane!! Maybe he’ll buy you a beer to celebrate the new plot!! 💕👍🏻🍻
I hope so haha 😜
Thank you
Friends buy friends compost for their birthdays. 😆. Bet that beer tasted delicious 😄. You're a good human Alex.
Thank youuu and thanks for watching!! 😊
Looks great! Those seeds on the tall, weedy grasses adjacent to the plot will cause havoc - lots of weeding coming up.
Very true, hopefully they come sort it out soon
Superb content as always.An inspiration to me and others I"m sure.👍
Fantastisch Good work lawn you the best te moostiun te planting te Compost thé zaailingen Groenten Bloems thans te video best friend Top weekend 🚚🌾✔️😎🧢🧤👍☀️🌻
Thank you 🙏
Alex you did a good job 👍upcycling things in the garden, have a nice weekend 💚🌼🌿
Thank youuu
My allotment had these pegs as a marker for where my boundary is. Shame about it being on such a busy road. My last allotment was behind some houses, leading down to our local small river and then fields. It was so quiet! My friend liked to come down and just sit ( and watch me dig)
Ah that sounds ideal location!
Great job can't wait to see plants growing
Love it! I hope you continue following the progress ❤
We will doo!
When I made my raised beds this way, I did all the pilot holes first, then all I had to do was screw them together. It made the job quicker. Your friend will need to rotate his crops of spuds in the large bed but other crops in the 6 smaller ones don’t need to be rotated if you follow the Square Foot Gardening method. ❤
Ah some good ideas thank you!
Great teamwork. To make the corners stable and strong have you seen/heard of corner braces? My niece and her husband used them when building their garden boxes. They are very inexpensive. Such great progress being made.
Great video thanks
Hi Alex, Shane😉 & Cute doggie-Mack!! 🐕 Happy Saturday!!😊
Happy Birthday Shane,🎂Sorry You had To Work on Your Birthday!! Thanks Alex for Getting Shane 20 Bags of Soil for
Shane`s Birthday!!
Alex, You did a Excellent Job, Building Raised Beds for Shane!!💯
Wow These New Video`s Together Are Different Than Your Flower Video`s, but I Like It!!💯
You Both Take Care & Both have a Separate Lovely Evening With Your Families!! ❤❤ Love Barb from Central Illinois USA❣
Thanks for watching Barb, hope you and the family are well!!
Need to get a new battery LOL and its great that you are helping your friend out.
Thank you 😊
You've done an awesome job. It looks more natural when its rough and ready lol 😊
Hopefully will green up soon!
Good job my man looks fine to me. Your a good friend to help your mate . Catch you next time 😊
Thanks 👍
Nicely done Alex, shame he didn't want the longer beds, he could use so much more of the ground to grow.. The edges of the allotment he could put narrow long beds for flowers as borders. Just an idea :) Thanks for sharing I do love watching the start to finish.
Ah good idea! Thanks for watching!!
It looks great.i got a vinyl box this year but nothing looks too healthy..maybe I don't put enough water on it.
What a lovely birthday present great job 👍
Thank you 🤗
Great tips and work done
Will the weeds/overgrowth in the adjacent plot be a problem for Shane? Would it be acceptable to trim back a portion, since the plot appears to be untended at the moment? Is the council supposed to maintain the public path, as it appears to need some work as well?
Great Job 👏👍 ..will there be a barrier along sides of allotment to keep out grass from next allotments & some flowers 🌾🌷🌻🌹
Easiest just to strim it down
You don’t need to mix the compost into to beds, it will work in when planting the beds and worms will do the rest. I garden on heavy clay and use compost as mulch, the soil quality has gradually improved over the years
Gypsum added to heavy clay, gives instant improvement!
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That’s a dibber! It’s for planting .
Think you’re doing a great job but with all the battery operated tools you have you don’t have a battery operated saw?! I’m assuming that the tall grass is where Shane allotment ends. I like the smooth side out. Why does it have ridges. I saw another British show making a deck and same kind of wood. What do you do with the sod you pulled up? Do you rent these allotments.
I’m sure he appreciated what you did for hin
He did indeed! Thanks for watching!!
What is an allotment?
Fantastisch Good work lawn you te best te moostuin planting te bloems te groente zaailing thans te video Good weekend fried 😅🚚🪤🚜🧢🧤🌤🍹🌻🪴🌾✌️
Thank you 😊
You take too long for such an easy task. Sorry❤😢
I’m not paid for this work I will take as long as I want
@@acreslawncare🤣🤣🤣 there’s always one mate. Great job and I’m sure Shane will be very pleased. Check out no dig allotments they’re a good way to keep the soil structure etc..
Well you can't satisfy everyone what a misery she is.
I love these people that just criticise, they just get on my nerves
You can't please everyone what a misery this person is. It's not as easy as you think @paulinefernandes4093.