How to FILL Raised Garden Beds CHEAP and EASY
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Today I want to share how to fill a raised bed garden and save money. I have used this method for years in my garden and the results have been incredible. You will see in detail how I fill my raised beds, the results I have had with this technique, and a step-by-step guide on how to do it.
This idea comes from an old gardening technique called hugelkultur, where you fill the bottom of your beds with logs, sticks, leaves, and any organic matter that you have. You will save money because you will only need to fill the top 12 to 18 inches with quality soil and the rest will be filler. On top of your logs and sticks layer you can add native soil, compost, or old potting mix like I did. So never throw your old potting mix away, reuse your potting mix to fill the bottom of your raised bed garden.
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Hi James! Thanks for the clear description. Tucks still going strong at 14 years because he eats better than any other. 🐕
I plan to follow your instructions the next week or so. My only concern is termites. I have seasoned logs and sticks from last summer to add to the bottom. Grape Vines too. There's a termite colony nearby and I am wondering if I should dig a trench and treat against the base of the raised beds with termite pellets that dissolve in water. Since the soil inside won't be treated, I'm guessing it will be safe, but want your opinion since it will be within a few feet of my house.
the thumbnail says logs is a mistake yet you say to put them in in the vid. Thanks u clickbait shill 👍
@@YasilTorvannayou seriously have nothing better to do than make a snide comment on a positive video on a great channel?
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You and Tuck do a great job in the garden. He’s adorable ❤ Thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge, I’m learning so much.
Tuck seems to be your supervisor, you make your hands dirty and he just sits there to give you more orders. He is so sweet, TFS your great gardening tips:)
a year ago i started my very own garden cause of you, so far its going really good and its really easy to relate to you cause im also from jeresy thank you for making a bunch of videos to help alot of people garden and start their very own garden like me!
We are putting rocks in the bottom of the bed with a layer of gravel on top of it to keep critters from digging up. We have plenty of old dead trees and will follow your advice for filling the bed. ❤️❤️❤️to Tuck.
Hi James, just wanted to say we love Tuck ❤❤❤ and I ordered a couple things from your site and am very happy with the quality! I learn a lot from you!
Let's Gooo! Glad to hear that Mary. Thanks for the kind words and the support, it means a lot to me and the little boss 😁🐕❤️
This is for you Tuck ❤
…The bottom logs act as water batteries. I love that. 😁 Tuck looks great at 14 because he is a good weight and the organic vegetables are so nutritional for him. Hearts for James and Tuck. 🥰💙🐶💙🐾
I love ALL The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni videos!
🥰🥰🥰 Boss Man Tuck!! I had planned on making your version of pallet beds this year but now that I see you are switching to Birdies and that they'll last longer and are maintenance free for years, I think I'll go that way. I'll get one this year to try it out and then plan for more later. I have a neighbor who's a tree service guy so I can get lots of logs to fill my bed. I'll be following you to see how the self watering bed goes and to see how square foot gardening in a Birdies is done. Thanks for all the information you provide and the inspiration and energy you bring to our gardening lives.🌻🍎🫐
Awesome I wish him many more years of being the Boss and guardian of your beautiful garden. I am looking forward to seeing your new look. Producing plenty as usual. This is for Tuck❤❤❤❤❤❤
we Love Tuck! my lil pups are goin on 13 this year so good luck to us all!❤❤❤
❤❤❤❤'s For Tuck! Sending love to James also. It's almost Spring LETSS GOOO!!
Here's to Tuck. ❤❤❤ I hope your business is doing well James. Your products look great!
❤❤❤❤❤ Just discovered this channel! Can't wait to binge some more!
Tuck is adorable!
you can use a load of woodchips provided enough water to keep plants moist or even add a thin layer of compost over the woodchips.
Luv the Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤ Nice to see what filler to use.
Love my metal raised beds I have them from 4 different companies.
You always inspire me! I am making your soil mix this year.
I have used this method for my beds.
Great vid J! Leaves are great for filling raised beds too.
❤ so happy to see Tuck
If planning to start a single raised bed in the future, look up local Arborist and ask if you can go and pick up some logs.
Note: Many Arborists deliver but they will only drop a truck full which is way to much.
Give them a tip or case of beer, and if you take a chain saw you can cut it up to size that can fit your truck and easier carry and stack in you yard.
Or just go to a local recycling center and bring a bunch of 40 gallon bags to put mulch. Many people also leave logs along the road in the winter.
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Love your channel. I believe you’re from Jersey too. Great to see ideas that’s available to grow in NJ. Do you place wire mesh down before you position the bed?
🥰🥰🥰🥰 Love Tuck! James you're pretty cool, too.😉😂🙂
My wife and I this did this in our 3’ x 8’ horse troughs and recently removed the soil. Most of the logs we added 7 years ago were completely composted. 👍
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♥♥♥♥♥ Tuck is just too cute!🥕🥕🥕🥕 a few carrots for him, too!
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Tuckie!!! ❤❤❤
i love my beds full of logs.
Hi Tuck.
I've got 5 gal pails for my indoor 5x5 grow tent. Would I gain anything by puting maybe 4 inches of rotted material, nothing green, in the bottoms of my pails. Would that be a source of microbes? Would worms stay in the bottoms of these pails with drainage holes or would I have worms all over the inside of my tent, Ha!
Thanks for all your stuff, Tuck. Hard to believe he's 14. Go Tuck, Go
Great advice ❤❤
Good timing for me as I am getting ready to fill new beds. Since I don’t have many logs or branches can I put a layer of wood chips? ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to you and Tuck
Tuck ❤! Thanks for the info!
One good to consider is NOT adding canes (like those from a pruned grape vine) - they will tend to grow, sending runners all through the soil.
💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Tuck rocks! And,hey, you do too!
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In a new 12” high raised bed, for shallow-root vegetables where there really is no room for decaying logs, wondering if a layer of cedar mulch on the bottom would be a good idea, or just of waste of cedar mulch?
Also, have a yard-full of pine cones & long pine needles I rake up every year. Have read concerns about adding such things to the bottom of a bed. Thoughts or comments?
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G'day Tuck
I want to do one on the ground in my unheated green house. It currently has about 3" or so gravel on the floor, should I rake the gravel away to expose the soil floor before I put the open-bottom cedar raised bed down or is the gravel OK under all the additives? Can I put cardboard on the bottom? Thanks.
I had major insects last summer very hot and dry in NM in my horse troughs do I need to do something to soil before I plant??
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Is there a reason not to just buy a more shallow raised bed to begin with?
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Are logs from pine trees okay?
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this metal raised bed, doesn't it get hot in the direct summer sun? (I'm in Texas so we think about these things). I'm concerned it would "cook" the plants (or burn my hands!)
you dont place cardboard or something at bottom of bed to prevent weeds?
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i recently hear not to fill logs in as it depletes the soil is this true
What if you don’t have access to old logs?
Hi, I don't have logs, leaves, or anything like that. Sow plz invent a raised bed on stilts that are adjustable, that is shallow, so all I have to do is add soil and don't have to bend over . Love Tuck❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂
are Roly pollys bad for your plants?
Rolly pollies prefer to eat dead plant material, but if they get hungry they will eat roots.
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Your not doing the Hugelkultur method if you have no green layers. The concept of the Hugel is a long term self composting bed.
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I come here just to check on Tuck.
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I always start with 3 inches of cardboard at the base before I do my logs I feel like it may entice the worms to come up. Plus I get to get rid of my cardboard.😂🤪
make sure to give the cardboard some moisture/watering before, else it may remain water reppelent if its dry and make take a very long time to break down.
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I had to cancel my subscription after a year or so. Medical issue have on oxygen now. My ability to garden is about gone. So, I have moved to using the Cloth type garden bags.
Any suggestions on these? 5 to 7 gallon can be moved easily enough and prep and plant doesn't seem to hard.
It is called Hügelkultur and the Germans have been doing it for centuries
So have we, and it works perfect 😊
Wow...what a asshole..they’ve been doing it for years, as an asshole.
Yeah, I was hoping he was going to mention the name. Just because it’s a cool thing to say! I’ve been doing my beds this way too, and the harvest have been great.
Sounds like all the cultures do it that way
Yup this is a refresher video as he’s gone over this before and explained it 😊
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Thank you for the great tip about how to cheaply fill the deep bed. I appreciate all you do. Giving a heart and a virtual pet for Tuck. ❤
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Hey James! Thanks for your videos. One of my favorite comics is Dusty Slay. He gave you a shoutout on his podcast with Nate B called Nateland. He was talking about his own food forest goals and said he watched you a lot. Small world. If you don’t know his work, maybe check him out !
Hey Diana! that is awesome, Dusty is a great guy and is hilarious. Have you seen his new Netflix special it's great! We are friends on instagram and we have talked back and forth a few times, he is a really nice guy.
@@jamesprigioni oh cool! I love him AND you! 🥰
@@jamesprigionithe thumbnail says logs is a mistake yet you say to put them in in the vid. Thanks u clickbait shill 👍
Tuck is a tremendous creature ❤❤❤❤❤ He always does his due diligence!!
My little chihuahua is 14 now, and she’s blind, but she’s happy and fairly healthy and so very loving! Tuck is so adorable! Yorkies have always been my “dream dog”….but I wouldn’t part with my baby for anything at this point! I wish Tuck great health and a long, long life! I think he’s doing so well because he eats so many veggies! My baby loves them too and she gets them daily! I can’t wait to have them fresh off the vine for her again!!! I’d love to have that tall raised bed, but my budget won’t permit it. But I can keep dreaming! ❤❤❤
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Raised beds can be built from free recycled materials, so poor or not affordable is B.S. anyone willing to put a bit of research and elbow grease can do this without excuse’s . Where there is a will- there is a way ! Im terminally ill and disabled on a shoestring budget and have scrounged enough used pallets and other materials for free and a few dollars for fasteners. Seeds were free from university agricultural department, the dirt and compost I went into the forest and found beautiful black soil under and around oak trees that have many decades of leaves composted naturally. Don’t rob it all from one spot, but gather a bit from a large area and you’ll get free quality soil and won’t harm the surrounding environment plus you get free earthworms in the process. Just sift out any roots that you may gather up to keep from having noxious weeds
Only need 12" high. These tall ones are just easier on the back.
He has been eating healthy snacks his whole life! ❤❤❤❤❤
Hello James. I am sorry that I am trying to get in touch with you this way. I have tried repeatedly to get in touch with you. I am loosing the ability to plant my seeds this year. I made the decision to support your channel. My seed tray lids arrived soon after my order. The trays however are not here. After waiting weeks to get the trays, I tried to cancel. No response from your team. A few days later the email that I originally received said the trays were sent. They are floating around our state. They will not deliver them to my post office box. I can not change the address because they were mailed with the wrong name. They came from the west coast of our country. Not from New Jersey. So I guess you are using drop shipping. I have spent hours on the phone. Sent many messages. I will not order from you again. Not because of the delay. But because you do not have any customer service that can or will help me. I am actually very angry. I am going to be starting my seeds in plastic cups. We are so late in starting our seeds. It’s my fault. I placed the order assuming I would get them in time. I will still watch your videos. But do not trust your store to deliver. Rudy
Um No. The way to fill these beds is to use straw bale gardening. for 6 dollars a bale you get a perfect grow for cucumbers, melons etc. And at the end of the season what do you have? 6 inches of free compost in the bed. do that for 3 years and you are golden and have a lot more money in your pocket. After the conditioing cost of the bales they need no fertilizer as they feed the plants as they decompose. I have beds nearly full but honestly I transfer the compost to my tomatoe beds where I grow them in dirt still. Everything else the straw just works too well not to.
Fantastic 🪴 - Raised beds are the go 💯 and I love 🧡 container pots + growing out directly some plants 🌱 into the garden too 🍈 🍇 🥒 🍆
Love the hard working little Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤
We Love you and Tuck !!!! I am cuddled up with a 19.5 year old cat that peed on me today.
Caring for them in their last years is an opportunity to show them just how deep and pure our love is and has been. I believe that makes God chuckle and yell "yes, that was my point !"
If Tuck is happy, we’re happy! All the loves Tuck!💗
Logs! What a great idea! Tell Tuck thanks for the tip! Love you Tuck. ❤🙏🏻😊👍🏻
❤❤ Tuck and James are the best.
I certainly will do, never thought of doing this, saves money and good rich soil. It feeds the soil over time, slow release fertiliser.
4 th year of watching your videos 🎉
We live in northern MN and I gotta say, kind of envious of your growing season, but you know, that's just another victory to earn. Love ya Tuck!
I garden in Northeastern MN! Such a precious and short season! Best of luck this year!
I did this with my raised beds. I put sticks in the bottom of my big flower containers also. Leaves and compost. Thank you for this video. Live to Tuck ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
Doing a good job Tuck!!!💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
The terracotta beds with the trellis in the middle are the beds I want to start with 🥰.
Of course ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ for Tuck!
I would say, as an older person, physical necessity, the knees and ability to control the water is why I’m going raised containers. There is only two of us so it isn’t like I need a huge garden space. This looks perfect.
Love the terra-cotta color!! So excited the see what you grow in them and on the trellis 😁 made my own bed this year with an old pallet and making an arch with some animal fencing. Hoping and saving to get one of the taller metal beds for my parents soon 🙏🏼
Tuck is the best, I love seeing him. Thanks for the videos James. 😊❤❤❤
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