Gardening at the AIRSTREAM? Vegega Raised Garden Bed Install
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- We're officially prepping for warmer weather! Check out these sweet raised metal garden beds from Vegega - today we're going to put them together and get ready for planting in the spring.
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I watch a guy on UA-cam called Self Suffient Me. He does year round gardening videos in raised beds, a bunch of different fruit trees, all sorts of dehydrating his produce, etc. He is in New Zealand, but so much of that he deals with can be adjusted to what you do in Arizona. Everyone can use the tips and gardening tricks. I hope you don't mind me suggesting another YT Channel.
Love the raised garden beds. I bet Ashley doesn’t get much sleep cuz she is always thinking of cool things to do around the homestead and I bet Jonathan doesn’t get much sleep cuz Ashley is always thinking of cool things to do around the homestead 😂. Your family is one “Go-getting machine”. Ocho has the cutest personality. He reminds me of a toddler always trying to get moms attention while she is trying to talk to others ❤. Always enjoy and look forward to your videos. Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
You should plant some Bougainville and Red bird of paradise somewhere around your place. I had some when I lived in Tucson. Really loved them and the color in my yard.
I LOVE those beds! And they look so great in a tidy row. When we lived in the desert in California, our beds were the same height but made of wood, and were very productive using hugelkultur, BUT we found we also needed a covering of a couple inches of wood chip mulch (Back to Eden style) to hold in the water at the root level or else our kale turned into kale chips and died due to the arid hot desert sun. We used the Dig watering system with timers on all our raised beds and it worked so well. An old timer there told us to crack an egg into each hole the peppers and tomato starts to go into, and it fertilized them beautifully. We sprinkled in some azomite and worm castings into the good soil on the top, and those beds were always crawling with earthworms when we dug down. Happy Planting!
Mulch is also important in Minnesota! Helps retain water throughout the summer, and it keeps the weeds down. In winter, it helps prevent heaving. This is when the ground freezes and then thaws. As this cycle keeps happening, the plants are pushed up out of the ground. The roots dry out, and the plant dies. Mulch prevents that!
I am very excited to see what things you learn from gardening in the high 🏜 desert area. Be sure to ask your neighbors what has worked for them and equally important, what has not and why! More life lessons! Get messy! Make mistakes! Fix 'em!💞🐑🦌🏜P.S. You are the best medicine that I could take right now. I can eat crackers today!
You can already start spinach, radishes, spring onions, mangold and lettuce. Seeds germinated in warmth , wait for second leaves and then plant out with a frost cover. You’ll be eating by early spring. Love how productive and excited you are! Great video!
Great Choice Guys AIRSTREAM Shaped Garden Beds 🎉
I use raised beds and what I have learned is that you should plan your plants based on your sun rise, hottest time of the day and tallest plants to either shade during that time of the day to protect early morning sun loving plants. Also trellis planting is wonderful for space saving but if you can have the structure leaning away from the other plants. You could however contract a trellis over tender plants like lettuce using poles at the end of the bed and volleyball net stretched across the middle.
Sounds very good to me! Well thought out.
Shade isn't really a thing in Cochise 🤣 they'll have to do rebar/shade cloth
I also use sheer curtain panels for shade. Knowing how the sun moves across where the beds are will with what plants you grow in which. Peas, cucumbers and melons do great on a trellis. I did use old t-shirts to sling the melons on the trellis. Good luck.
Use cardboard as a weed barrier on top, or as a delay to keep water in the bed a bit longer. As a weed barrier, soak it, and hide it under mulch.
Just remember the word “hugelkultur”. Put simply, hugelkultur is a centuries-old, traditional way of building a garden bed from rotten logs and plant debris. These mound shapes are created by marking out an area for a raised bed, clearing the land, and then heaping up woody material (that's ideally already partially rotted) topped with compost and soil. And it works amazing in raised gardens.
Yay! You did it! But that’s the word for what you are doing ….. hugelkultur
You built those beds pretty much like we did ours. We only did one layer of cardboard, then half full with whatever brown organic we could find (the dead fall from a park behind our house helped), then local dirt, and top soil for the top 6 in. Still need to put some more top soil each year, but it is good and rich now (after a few years).
Ocho was like, “Sweet! You got me SO MUCH CARDBOARD! Wait, what the heck are you doing? Why are you burying it all?!?!” 😂 I love the configuration you guys decided on, it leaves the space in between to trim and water and plant, and you’ll still have the view! I hope that you all have a very lovely weekend! 😊❤️
Kids and dogs playing with cardboard is always fun. Kids love cardboard and apparently so do dogs!!
Love the new garden beds. It’s going to look so good. Even Ocho helped out. Hehehe. Love and be safe!🤗😘🌼🇻🇪
Growing your own loofas seems like a fun project. The garden beds look really great, too! 😀
think it's gonna be easier there in southeastern ARIZONA to grown loofas rather than a lot of the areas around Tennessee & western North Carolina & Northwestern South Carolina where so many YT homesteaders are altho I wish them much success. It will be another competition to see who has loofa success this year. you all use biochar too in beds??? you could consider charging it in barrels in water u have collected, with goat gold mixed & sitting for a weeks or so, what do ya think? your videos are fun to watch because you're all so industrious & especially so cutely entertaining good folk! so much has been done in these past 2 years. So excited about you choosing this part of the USA!
Love your garden beds. I used horse troughs and a cattle panel. Watching you, I remember setting them up with the cardboard and branches. And the dirt on top. I grew luffas last year! They are so cool!
Ocho is so funny ,and helpful too lol!.. you could do with starting a composting bin so next year you will benefit from some beautiful rich nutritious soil that you have made yourself.We used to have two ,one to start whilst we were emptying the other.We added it to our heavy soil each year and it gave us lovely plants that did really well too,as well as pride,we did it ourselves.We put all sorts in,egg shells,peelings ,table scraps,not bones,ripped up paper and card ,layered so it broke down quicker,grass cuttings,clippings from trees smaller ones as they composted quicker as well as leaves etc,from the garden. The soil from it grew beautiful tomatoes and cucumbers!beans,greens etc and flowers were bigger and and stronger too.We also used it when adding trees and shrubs.I loved my gardening.I don’t do it anymore due to disabilities and am in a flat now.I love these tubs they look really strung and very robust ,they also look really nice too.Love n Light to you all 🥰
It looks like Ocheo was a great help with the cardboard.
Love those garden beds. I need some of those. Really love Ocho I still miss nine nine.
Love the garden beds !!!
I so wish I was a Master Gardener....they know so much and DO so much, therefore receive an abundance of goodies of all kinds! I'm sure a Master will show up in your family.
Great visit as always. Thank you so much.
I love your videos. In the summer 'it's so hot ' and in the winter ' it's so cold'. Lol. Look forward to watching everyday.
Your kids are the Future, let them lead you are teaching them well xxx
For climbing veggies: climbing beans - make sure the tag states "pole bean", otherwise you'll have a bush type (Kentucky Wonder Gold pole, Italian Pole, Yellow Wax), peas, loofah gourd, squash (except Amabssador or bush type zucchini. This variety climbs: Costata Romanesco and it's pretty too!), scarlet runner bean (it's flowers are sure pretty but pick the beans when they are no longer than 2.5 to 3 in - longer they are the tougher they are), cucumbers (Long English, National Pickling), climbing nasturtium (the leaves have a peppery taste and are great in salads-so are the flowers, and you can pickle the seeds like capers), Malabar Spinach - pick the leaves when they are young, melons (cantaloupe or honeydew or dwarf pumpkins), tomatoes (indeterminate works best - cherry varieties like Sweet 100, Sweet Million and Yellow pear. For larger tomatoes - Early Girl Bush, Burgess or Greenhouse type), tomatillo, Rocoto Pepper (spicy bell pepper). There are endless possibilities and the fun part is try crossing one flower's pollen with another to see if you can create a new variety for next year... this can be a school project and teaches perseverance and patience. Read the labels of each seed packet carefully and a word of advice - plant water needing types together. Also try companion planting like beans with potatoes - they keep bugs off of each other. Hopefully your hens and rooster won't come pecking..... Have fun!!!
You might think about using some of your cattle/trellis with shade cloth, as shade for any plants that might not need as much awesome AZ sun! Just a thought.
Yay, Vegega raised bed containers! I'm so happy for you Ashley. It'll be great to have these so close to the TSH. Those look nice! I like the cross braces! I like how you arranged the beds. Hugelkultur huh? This is exciting! Watch out for chickens raiding your beds! Ocho thinks you're getting sticks for him! Looking good! What will you do your trellises from? I like how the Hollar Homestead uses the cattle panels and they grow Loofahs too. Yay! Hog or cattle panels for trellises! They look great! Thanks for this Vlog Longnecker family! This was fun to watch as always!
Cant wait to see what you grow! Ocho is a mess! Good time watching! Stay warm! It was 80 degrees here in East Tennessee and the daffodils are bloomibg like crazy!!
OK it’s supposed to say blooming!
@@sandigray6247 I blame it on autocorrect!
If you take the cattle panel and put it on the outside of the two oval beds and put a T post in to hold them your plants that are climbers can climb on the cattle panel as they’re growing in the winter time, you cover it with six mil plastic, and you have a greenhouse and you can grow all year round. That’s what we do.
Looks great. The trellises will also create shade for plants that bolt easily.
Ashley, 5 cattle fance panels is great idea between raised beds.
I have one in my garden to grow climbing plants. Saves the growing space and looks fantastic.
I hope you all will go for it .
Garden!!!!! So sweet! Can't wait to see all the things you grow!
I live in Florida and those garden beds become hydrophobic easily. Lot's of water. Love your content.
Vegetable experiment!! I wonder if you're going to need a partial shade cover as things warm up? Do I remember correctly that you already had a few to recycle? Hopefully this wait for the weather will allow any weeds to sprout so you can get rid of them before you plant.
Moving the gardens beds... synonymous with moving a panio in the living room..😊
FUN FUN FUN‼ love the family garden bed project👌💚Ocho is so funny and your youngest one having fun behind Mama's back‼ 🧡💜🤎💛
@growinginthegarden is a good follow for AZ growing. You don’t have to wait to plant. You can always sow covercrop while you wait.
Cool garden beds. Make sure that you have enough room between them to mow and to get the wheel barrel through. Also I live in Southern California and use the mesh shade cloth over one of my raise beds so the sun does not burn some of my plants that do not do well in the hot sun during the summer.
So happy to see garden beds going in and these can be moved later date if needed. Very good to see.
Love the raised beds! 🥰 Just an idea… If you have some spare stones (or other substitute, ziplock made concrete stones) painted (kids craft time, lol) rocks to border around the raised beds to make ‘em 🤩 pop. Lol 😂
Glad to see you use those. I have been seeing them and thought that would be good for me. I’m only needing one. I have saved some leaves sticks and such to put in the bottom of mine then dirt. Thanks for this video it helped me a lot, love ocho
The raised garden looks beautiful, and it's a nice added touch!
Love your videos❤️ looks like so much fun. You mentioned some vining plants. What about using a dead tree as a trellis. Also for pole beans / cucumbers. I haven’t been able to grow beans in AZ.
Ha, I got maybe three beans last year in my part of AZ. I am still on my gardening-learning journey, though. I second the dead tree as a climbing structure - I am doing that for my snow peas that are sprouting now.
If burrowing animals are an issue in the desert, you might consider putting a layer of pest proof wire mesh down before filling them. Stop pest from coming in from underneath even when the cardboard and wood breaks down.
Looks fun working together! So sorry about your dog ,I love your new one!
Ohh my gosh! First, Ada is the cutest little photo bomber ever! Oh heck! They're All cute!
Secondly, you put those so close to the fence and I'm getting hilarious videos in my head of someone bending over the end to pick peppers and backing up to the fence! 😅🤣
Thirdly, Ocho's so adorable and funny!
Love you guys! 👏💖
The thing I like best about gardening, well except for the yummy food, is the process of learning. Every place on our beautiful earth has different gardening skills to be learned. Advice is wonderful, but as my mother once said, "You will just have to do it, and you will learn". I know you all will have success and have gobs of fun while doing it.
I am sure you get plenty of unsolicited advice. But, here's some more anyway 😁. I found burning the ground inside raised beds very helpful. Ash is good for the soil and it kills all the weeds and the seed bank in the soil. 💚 happy growing
Yippee, gardening is here! Can’t wait to see all your produce down the road.😊. I think your trellis idea would be really cool, too.
This is exciting 🙌
Can't wait to see what you grow in them.
Cheers
Love love love this one too. I also love it when you guys SLIDE IN front of camer! You are the only people on UA-cam who do that. Looks cool and it’s sort of silly. 😁👍👍👍👍
Yes on the panels. It would be a solid strip of green!
Love those raised bed. Wish they had been around when I was gardening. I firmly believe that gardening in raised beds is awesome. Looking forward to seeing you plant them. Hang in there, warm gardening weather is coming soon! Lining the beds with the cardboard and adding discarded limbs and shrubs is a smart move. I had several inches of mulch on top of my raised beds which made them virtually weed less and very easy to manage as well as helping regulate the soil temperature, suppressing weeds, and conserving moisture. Through in a drip irrigation system to make it even less work. As the mulch degrades, it enriches your soil. and mulch
You are much fun, all of you!Thank you.😁
I'm going to put one of these above garden beds on my vision board I also checked out their link pretty cool
Nice loving family. Blessed for sure♥️
Have you heard of the self watering stock tank method? Live to see you try that. 💜
I agree, the self water design is a great way to do itnn
Those planting beds are going to be great 💙💜🩷
🥰You all are a joy to watch 🤗
So excited for you all on the grow beds and the kids are always ready to go with a awesome smile. My goodness Ashley you are awesome strong Mom, do you ever sleep?!. Keep being you 💪🫂🌹
I was just saying the same thing to my kids and husband that we are putting in a 40 by 40 vegetable garden in the next few weeks and I got even more excited about it when the kids said we need pumpkins. Halloween runs deep here 😂😂😂 and now seeing this video makes it that more easier 💪🫂❤️
Boxes great idea 💡
Thank you all again for the great video ❣️
Love the channel you and your husband are funny and absolutely adorable. I see were the kids get it from .
Cardboard is the best dog toy
Don't forget beans, watermelon and pumpkins for vine plants!
Fun day in the desert!!! Ocho making rounds lol! Have a great day❤🤗👍✌
One other option, would be trellises that connect 2 beds
Well done! How fun and so useful! I love that you used/recycled various materials to fill these beautiful garden beds! And of course you're gonna go with Ashley's idea of hog panels curving over all the beds for function and interest! Such a good idea! Sorry, gotta add that cold is relative: I was snowblowing our longish driveway, clearing off solar panels and decks in 10F windy weather here in ME this morning (Who knows what the wind chill was! But I've lived here 78 years and am acclimated! Someone's got to do it! 🧕) ❤
Hi From Australia, we have garden beds like this . We have oblong and square ones; we also use IBC's cut in half as garden beds. I can't wait for your videos.
I am so looking forward to growing vegetables!! I can’t wait for part two!!
Wow, y'all are making big moves and kicking ass while doing it. Glad i found your channel.
P.s. thanks for responding so fast the other day, definitely made a big fan out of me.
Aww thanks, glad you’re here :)
I’m doing the same on my 532 square metre block but over old lawn. If you go to bigger beds, big boxes that bikes come in are fantastic!
Holy Cow, it's Arizona, put your beds in a spot where your plants will get some shade!🙏🙏🌱🥕🥒🌶🫑🌡🌡🌡
So exciting! I love when it’s time to get gardens ready. A great and fun video!
You won’t need top soil. Things grow really good in compost. At the end of the season you just pull up the roots and add that to the bed with more compost. It will settle in each year so don’t worry about getting them full. Later
You have glass windows that could go over the beds to stay warmer earlier 🤔👍
Mix some mulch and nitrogen with top soil.🤔👍
Have a good week and God bless amen.
Now back to the build.
If you know someone who raises rabbits, the manure is great fertilizer to use right off it’s not 1 that needs to age first.
🦋 I love those beds. Raised beds get my vote all the time. Yeah you did good teamwork putting them all together I know that was a lot of work. Well done👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Can’t wait to see all of the things you’re gonna be able to grow in those.
Great job on the raised beds! I can’t wait to see what you grow! Ashley, those cattle panel trellises sound beautiful and practical for many vining plants. It will be amazing 🌈🌿💕
bonjour la famille with all the high-jinx going on in the background whilst the Adult speak, i had a glorious smile on my face. Ada... you Rock !! the accidental/on purpose dusting of your mom was priceless. i'm sure glad it was not steaming goat clusters !! what a novel idea your raised garden at the Airport !!
some day, you'll have dinner at the Airport and if you plant an olive tree, you can say that you're having dinner at the Olive Garden. and please tip the waitress.
Or was that, high-jax?!
Haha, I will see myself out.
@@paulas_lens i'm 100 percent for the children expressing their individuality and creativeness
Those look like strong, really well made panels. Tiny Shiny garden beds!🌻
Very cool !!! Gardening. Fresh veges yum. Ocho so cute he plays with cardboard vm like my cats!😅
Yaaaa 👍. I ❤ & use cardboard & hugelkulture in my garden! Even in my big planters . Glad to see that 🤩👵🏻👩🌾❣️
sandy soil is great for growing root veg like potatoes, parsnips and carrots in, also if you do grow potatoes, you could grow tomatoes alongisde them so you can get twice as much out of the same bed. some treated 2x4 and 4x4 inch mesh wire makes the easiest reusable "trellis" for growing vined vegetables
So happy for you guys
Start growing🎉🎉
Small green house to start you garden in sprouts. nice job thank you ALL stay safe
Those are COOL garden beds!
You can also mix in ashes from firepit and ground up eggshells to help fill it. They have excellent nutrients for gardens.
Good choice on how to fill the beds!
The hog panels are a good idea, they'll allow you to hang some shade cloth over your beds.. I have a feeling you'll need it for part of your growing season. Best of luck! Love your videos, my son lives nearby you in Safford, AZ... I'm in TN
Those are so cool & I hope you add the cattle panel trellises, because I’d really love to see how they work for tomatoes. Those tomato cages you can buy are so flimsy. Also, I just love your new green shirt, Ashley, from, what was that company??? Lots of love from Oregon! ♥️ Jessica
Thanks! Kantha Bae tinyshinyhome.com/kantha5
Those are really nice. When my wooden ones breakdown I will have to look for them.
Ocho is in charge of the cardboard until yous used it all but its ok cause mum gave him a stick...❤
Nice riased garden beds, hgappy family, lovely dogs, beautiful music, everything looks perfect.
Good morning you guys are you guys doing today a great day and be safe I like the project that you doing very good have a great day 🐶🐱🌴🌵🍀🌺🌺🥀🌹💐😃😄💙💛
Hugelculture in raised beds is the way! I have sandy soil also & I'm pleased to report they are really productive beds that require minimal top up
Looks great, I started some potatoes in buckets a couple weeks ago. See how that comes forward in a few weeks.
My gardening has always consisted of layering (aka: Lasagne Bedding/Gardening). It always began with at least 6” of dry cardboard as a weed/grass barrier ( metal staples & adhesive tapes removed). It is eco friendly because it is biodegradable. The layers consisted of fresh ground bark mulch/ saw mill shavings, newspaper/shredded paper, Bokashi vegetation, tree limbs, fresh cut grasses, compost soil and wood ash…. Not in this order. If I could attach photos to the comment section I’d share a couple of small harvests. Your family will greatly benefit from non-processed REAL fresh food. Your commercially sourced foods costs may even diminish.
I grew an array of herbs, spices, fruits & veggies, popcorn. I canned and froze (FOOD SAVER System and dehydrator) the bounty. The cabinets were stocked with soups, preserves, sauces, fruits, veggies. The freezer had ground herbs ice cube form, pie fruits, cakes, muffins & pastries, peppers, sauces and the list goes on. While I enjoyed all of the process ( still do but on smaller scale) The hard part is not in the prepping. It’s in the harvest. Waste not want not.
Am sending warmest vibes of learning and successes (as always) to you all in your self-reliant endeavors. Peace, and harmony to you all. 💫🍇🥖🧇🍅🍆🧈🍿🍪🥚🧀🍓🫑🌶🥒🥬🥦🐓🐐🐇🐝🦬😃
Regarding the trellises: if you were to hoop them over the bed structures, it would also create shade needed during more hit temperature seasons. You under/ companion plants such as radishes, carrots, beets would greatly benefit as well as a second round planting from seed or starts.
cut grass makes for a great ground cover to hold in the moisture and warmth as it breaks down and feeds your plants . cold frames are a great way to get your plants started a bit earlier . any old windows will work (reduce reuse recycle rethink). love the content .
You guys did a great job! Mark at Self sufficient Me has a couple videos on how to fix bowing on those types of raised beds, that comes from the compost settling over time on the cross braces. He fixed his without removing all the soil. They looked good as new after, and it didn't take long.
Ocho is so helpful❣
We did our own raised garden beds last year. Cardboard worked great for weed control. Side note - we've got some series envy for your carport over the Tiny Shiny Home!
Yes it would look REALLY COOL! Just Do It!
Love the garden beds. It is so beautiful there….love the views.❤️❤️❤️