November 5, 2024

VIDEO: 10 Reasons Why Raised Bed Gardens are Best


In this video, I give you my 10 top reasons why raised bed vegetable gardens are the best! And, how the raised bed gardening revolution is here.

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5 Reasons to Use THIS Bed for Growing Vegetables https://youtu.be/LgMiqF5pE54

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25 thoughts on “VIDEO: 10 Reasons Why Raised Bed Gardens are Best

  1. I really like these steel beds from Australia, but I have a big problem with deer in my yard. (I live in New Jersey in the U.S. We get huge herds of white tail deer.) I don't want to have a fenced in area because I don't want to deal with the weeds on the ground in the enclosed area, where you can't get a lawn mower in there to get around the raised beds. Can you get wire enclosures to go over them, that are made by the company, or do you have to build your own? Did you build the net things in your video, yourself?

  2. Hi Mark, saw your video on your bees. Me and my husband have honey (stinging American Bees). We get gallons of honey from them and they are our Pollenators. The world (especially here in the USA) has lost most of our wild bees. What a sad loss and I don't think that people how important our BEES ARE" COULDN"T you do a full show on the bees and other POlenators. Jessie in the USA

  3. Great video and even better channel! No really. The raised bed idea is awesome. This is my second go around with a garden. Last season I tilled and planted a very small garden. Didn't know much about much really. Getting a bit better after some teaching and learning from videos like this. I'm using live stock water troughs. 2'×4'×2'. And I live in town so I had to order out for top soil. Had ten yards dropped. I've got ten of the troughs and numerous other containers and buckets. Bought a bunch of local bagged top soil and bagged compost and manure and have been mixing in a hand barrel. A bit of blood meal. Piled lots of black willow in the bottoms of every container. Buckets and all. Sowed last week. And everything I sowed cept some onions are coming up. Very very short growing season here in Northern Michigan. Best of to all! Thank you so very much Mark for using your time in a edifying way!!! Happy growing!

  4. Have been gardening in raised beds/containers for years, but nothing like your set-up. 🙂 It's my understanding that roto-tilling (which I used to do, but no longer!) releases more carbon from the soil into the air than hand cultivating, not to mention gas fumes. It also turns the good top soil under, where it's less available to plants. Unless you can amend the soil several inches deep, that just doesn't make good gardening sense to me.

  5. I really hope birdie's expands and sets up a factory soon somewhere in the European union. These are so much nicer than what's currently available here. Unfortunately importing them is stupidly expensive, but if they could be made and distributed here they would be an amazing success!

  6. I am a poor pensioner in South Africa, I cannot afford raised beds and the garbage bins are being scratched in by the even poorer recycling people. Nothing in this country is free as a result of the recycling people take everything that is not tied down. they will even steal as they do their rounds. I am digging up my grass and planting veggies. I am 67 and it will keep me fit. Good for the back and your overall mobility.

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