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After a long and difficult summer, we’re finally ready to give some garden updates. So let’s start off with the changes we’ve been making to our garlic beds, by flipping sod.
VIDEO: Instant Raised Garden Beds by Flipping Sod: Expanding our Garlic Patch
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The weeds grass may crop again as soon as gets water
In Ireland we call these "lazy beds". They've been used to grow potatoes for hundreds of years and you can see the remains of them on now uninhabited islands after centuries!
Brilliant!
Great video … i'm binge watching ur videos in past few days .. ur animations are great .. that reminds me to ask the question what tools u are using for Animation e.g garden layouts and some in ur sustainability video
I was wondering if you were to collect bagged grass & leaves and chunky bio char and added it to the lawn before you flipped pieces on to it, would you get more organic matter and even higher beds. So it would be a little extra work, but you would benefit from that for years.
Would this method work for mainly garlic or any kind of vegetable garden?
What a really neat concept,. Might try it for a few beds.
Oh interesting. Ill try this out. Thanks for sharing!
Say whaaaaat? Oh yeah I’m gonna do it!
Dude,
Stop with the stoop labor.
Need a garlic dibble? Think broadfork style.
Garlic dibble puncher.
3 garden stakes, 2 1"x4"s
Min mark 5:50
https://youtu.be/1s1FI3PFydo
Aww what a lovely couple! I can't wait to use this method!
If you don't enjoy slicing, bending and flipping you could try using a Trencher [buy or hire] to dig your walkways and then shovel the loose soil onto the future raised Beds.
Then if you have access to Woodchips, spread them in the walkways.
This results in drier pathways to walk and kneel on, suppresses weeds and in almost no time the chips will break down and give you rich soil…'win win' all the way.
With an addition of soil and such you could even plant in the upgraded 'virgin' walkways the following year for more yield.
sell me your garlic..ill buy it all…no im not a vampire who works for the elite who just wants to buy up all the garlic so i can have no threat no no no..noo i uhh i like garlic yeah- yeah! i like garlic! muhahahahah (my metaphors are too fucking real cuz!!!!! im the goat)
I did your method on 100’x4’ – cover crop – tilled – garlic planted end of Oct. looks good so far! Thank you for the ideas!
Love this technique. Think it would work for a full vegetable garden. No reason I can’t just make wider rows right? I’d like to put wood chips in between the rows too.
Brilliant. This is how we traditionally grew potatoes in Ireland.
Hello to all Gardeners!
I am about to begin my garden work and this is my first year. I havent done any work like that before but the garden belonged to my grandmother and after she went old and passed no one worked on the sod for almost 15 years, but it is fine and still fertile.
So first of all, I am so happy for this Channel. I learnt loads of things.
Second, for the soil mentioned, no work was done for 15 years and I am about to flip the sod like in the video and plant different kind of veggies, strawberries and asparagus, slightly cover it with thin layer of mulch. And in the end of autumn do more of the mulching methods, cover it with more hay and compost and start all over the next spring. I just want to start it finally.
What you guys think?
Thanks for answering! 🙂
This just helped me I need to make 18 50 ft beds.
Hello, Congrat for all this job and the sharing !! Just a question, i usually plan to work with a 35 to 50 cm path . I see that your with this method is around 70 cm. This mean the cultivated area is reduced. How to take advantage of the large path ? I was thinking to cultivate some pollinating flower in the middle of the path with a 10-15 cm line and 30 cm path at each side of the flower line !! What do you think ? Than you for the answer you can give
These are referred to as lazy beds.
You didn't think of that, she did!
Looking at this again today, it's almost exactly the irish potato method used for centuries.
Been researching garlic farm startups for 3 days straight. THIS IS BRILLIANT! First explanation of fast, efficient method to launch raised beds. Can you list the sod cutter product that you used so it can be bought?
These are similar to 'lazy beds'. I wonder how to use them next season ?
Love this idea
I'm doing a flower farm and couldn't decide how I want the rows, this is definitely the prep I'm going to do. Your video are impressive. Well done!
That's awesome. yall must have non-invasive grass… this would never work out where i live. we have invasive bermuda grass and it has these long roots … i made the mistake of using some of the turf we took off leveling the ground for my raised beds in the bottom of one of the beds. figured turned upside down the grass would die. ha h aha haha… that bed is a city of weeds now. huge mistake. 😡
Will this work with soil that has more clay in it? I’m a new gardener and trying to find ways to cut costs building rows. But out soil has a decent amount of clay in it.
Great video!