Here’s a lesson I learnt the hard way about about using wine barrels in the garden (the fake ones)…
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I'm surprised they sell that kind of crap in your country, it is typical here in the USA.
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They look great in your new planters. Good luck with your avocados 🙂
What a great kit you were able to find to do this with. I have never seen anything like that here in U.S. but that maybe because I have never tried to grow anything in a raised bed. I am going to try it with some strawberry plants this year though. The rest of our garden is just planted out directly into the ground. I can see why you are doing this though. Your soil must be acid eh?
Are the Avos Wurtz variety? If so, where on earth did you get them? I can't find Wurtz for love or money down here.
I like the new beds, Mark! They look like they'll last a long time.
I always thought your garden looked great anyway but the improvements make it even better. No chance of growing an avocado here unless it is a house plant. My favourite garden centre has a cafe on two levels and a spiral staircase up to the second level with a huge avocado growing up the centre of it. Those galvanized planters look great.
That new galvanised steel framework looks like it can do the job. Moving that Avo tree looked like hard work, lets hope you don't have to move it again. Your grass also looked champion, seems to have blended right in. Nice vids Mark. Cheers, Adam
Do u have water restrictions in your area? Do u pay for water? Being from California sprinkler is a taboo noways..
The new beds look great. i only have one wine barrel. It too is not in the best condition any more. Hope your trees do well. E
can you make more quail vids please
Nice looking beds mate. Hope the trees do well in them for you.
Cheers Mark.
Hi Mark, The galvanize pots looks great, they should advertised those barrels as self decomposing.
Nice one mate. Probably a good thing in the long run to have their roots going deep into the soil. Good idea with the small raised beds although I bought a small grafted lamb hass for $28 and can't imagine putting it in a $100 raised bed. Up until now I've been building raised beds with rocks (they just happen to be everywhere underground here). I think Aldi had similar sized beds recently for $30 odd. I could never think of a good use for them until now. Thanks for sharing and hope they make it through.
Great video thanks for the warning 🙂
Thank you for the heads up
These look so neat! I'll see if I can find one here. We usually get resin based whiskey barrels here (not wood) so they last a long time in the garden. Have been using some for a few years now! Great video!!
so glad i saw your video. I was about to plant some blueberries and strawberries in wine barrels I bought from Fred Meyer.
I have been using blue barrels, cut in half across the middle to give two decent sized tubs. I then cut "windows" into the side all over the place to allow for 'air pruning' of the roots, and add 65 mm slotted irrigation pipe and a filler pipe to make a wicking base for the bottom of the barrel. Sand covers the slotted pipe and the lowest level of the 'windows' acts as overflow. They look pretty good too – at least according to some of the folk who walk past our place in suburbia.
Not an original idea – I got it from RobBob's channel.
Got ripped off at $100 per bed. $65 at my bunnings. Nice vid.
Avocado and horses don't mix well together. I heard poison for horses.
Cut drain holes in the sides of the wine barrel toward the bottom. Perhaps your barrel will drain and not rot.
aha! I always wondered about your raised beds, I thought they were very cool and unique and that your day job was in construction or something and you had rolls of those galvanized sheets that you were scavaging
ahhh… so that was the avocado tree when it was healthy 🙁
I just got my first wine barrels this week, 2 of them… authentic white oak ones. I read white oak is rot proof and will outlast most other woods and steel.
Hi Mark, great videos, I have pretty much watched all your videos and some several times. Referring to this video about the fake barrels, I had the exact same problems. I purchased 5 large barrel tubes to grow asparagus. After the 2nd year, they all fell apart just like yours did. I had to replant all the asparagus and get ride of all the pots too. Cheers. PC
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But without a bottom to the planter wouldn't the infection come into the avocado any way?
I don't understand why the Avocado required at $100 pot?
Whos that young bloke.