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Raised beds have many benefits for growing vegetables, especially if your soil is poor or badly drained. And they’re easy to make with a minimum of tools – no DIY skills required!
With just a few materials, you can build your very own raised beds that will look great and are ideal for growing your own vegetables at home.
In this short video we’ll show you how to build a simple raised bed, step by step.
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Great advice as always. I hate taking the tape off the cardboard but yeah we do it you have to or else that's up ends up everywhere. 1 tip I would recommend is to use your drill to drive in the screws, it makes it a lot easier. There's nothing wrong with the way you did it though.
The ground under the bed should be tilled. Otherwise you create what is known as hardpan. This is what I was told when I asked 2 landscaping businesses how to build my raised beds. I tilled the soil and added compost and composted cow manure to the soil before I built the beds.
My house in Connecticut was located on the west facing slope of a valley. Because of the potential for erosion, tilling was out of the question. I constructed multiple raised beds around the yard and grew everything from beans to squash to tomatoes and strawberries. It's a great way to garden!
Regarding the debate concerning pressure treated wood:
Redwood and even cedar are prohibitively expensive for many, including me. Since the removal of arsenic from PT wood, I'm comfortable using it. (I'm also a retired contractor and have worked with PT since the 70's.) If one has concerns, they can use #2 pine (inexpensive) and paint it (2 coats) with a good quality exterior primer. This does two things; it greatly extends the life of the material and it seals the wood, helping to retain moisture in the bed. (Painting, at least the inside, is a good idea, regardless of the type of wood used.
Aila did a great job. Fun to see her nice smile. I always appreciate the pragmatic tips you explain so clearly. Thanks.
Thank you very informative and easy to do. I feel that I can even do this!!! Your daughter is a cutie!!
Even I know you don’t use a masonary bit to drill would
Funny enough, just in for lunch from building a new one for our runnerbeans and another for our overflow strawberries and raspberries. Nowhere near as posh and pretty as yours (nothing wrong with posh and pretty) though – mine's rough and ready from old pieces of fence that had to come down.
Great little helper…
I have 15 4 X 8 raised beds and have grown broccoli, cabbage, bell peppers, tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, red potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, to name a few.
my husband said it better work after all this effort, I've assured him it will.
he's worried I wont be able to keep the weeds under control, I don't have the stamina I used to have, I had chemotherapy.
we have made 5 beds of 4m long and 1.2 wide with soil and manure mix, the manure is lama, sheep, donkey and goat.
I have plans for another 4 beds.
I have covered the potato beds with bark, what else can I cover with bark as I have unlimited supply and what can't I cover. how about onions, leeks and shallots. can I used it in the greenhouse, i'm growing toms etc direct into the soil and hope to keep growing veg through the winter.
i used bark in my flower garden and I was impressed, it's been on the garden for 3 or 4 years and has needed very little weeding, less than a bucket full in any year. it needs topping up now.
looking forward to comments, happy gardening to everyone regards mel
I’m making a 2.4m square bed just waiting for my compost to finish up. And I’ll be planting sunflowers marigolds etc and tomatoes corns and larger crops. I love your videos keep up the great work!!!
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I live in Florida and will be picking corn within the next month. Can't wait!!! I pick, shuck and wrap in a paper towel. Put in microwave for 2 minutes. Take it out, butter and EAT!
* I big greetings from Indianapolis.
I would like to know if you don’t mind type of wood you used please & thank you.
I bought 2x4x8 studs from Lowe’s and covers inside with bags of topsoil I used to fill in the bed so there’s no contact with wood and protect it for long term.
* I’ve heard using cardboard is toxic.
How true is it?
you can get much better value timber than those decking boards.
I am creating a raised bed in an area where I have only grown grass. I will use cardboard over the grass. The area gets perhaps 6 hours of sun; so it is partially shaded. I intend to create the bed with landscaping blocks to mark the front of the bed, to match other beds I have nearby, and in the back where it will be defined by a wooden fence, I am going to place wooden planks to keep the soil in the bed. The bed will be about10 feet long and 4 feet wide. I have ordered 12 asparagus crowns which i will plant in a trench dug down the center of the bed. In the spring I will plant lettuce in front of the asparagus.
If I have a chance to leave the cardboard out on a rainy day it makes it much easier work of pulling off labels and tape the next day. Thank you for your video. It’s so informative. I have subscribed and I am binge watching all of your videos
Excellent may I ask how long befor you could say plant carrots as 4” is not very deep ? Ps love the helper she’s adorable
These video's are so good, I have literally decided these last couple of weeks to start growing and make the perimeter of my garden wilder and full of fruit bushes and trees, one thing I can't find th answer to is do you have to destroy the veg/fruit plants every winter and start again the next year? Also if you grow carrots for example can they be picked and eat through the year or do you have to dig them up all at once? Which leaves rest of the year with no carrot? Can you do a gardening for dummies video? If it just persuades a few people that are not gardeners to start it will reduce the carbon footprint, benefit wildlife and most of all the person physically, mentally and financially
Great video as always. Your little helper is such a cutie.
Hi there again, I'm planning on making a raised bed using a shopping trolley, do you think it would work using plastic sheeting, and perhaps thick bin liners to line the trolley with and then puncturing the bottom with many holes? My main worry is the plastic turning the compost toxic. But I am not sure that any other thing for this shopping trolley setup would be practical long term.
Maybe I missed it, but what if the optimum depth? I want nice sturdy all purpose beds so I thought maybe 10 or 12in wide wood? Hmmm…
I'll bu the wood tomorrow and it will be room for sweetcorn
Aww bless little helpers my daughter is a teenager and no longer helps like this
Isla is so so sweet. Just catching this video now!
Love your videos. What kind of wood do you use? And is the size 1×8?
Hi ben I'm a beginner I just set up my 2 wooden raised beds i was wondering if should I fill them now or closer to when I be sowing? (Im from the UK east midlands)