Raised beds are a wonderful way to grow your own food, and in this video I will show you how to plan, build, fill and plant your first-ever raised bed, using as many low-cost techniques as possible. Click to see more links and info.
Raised beds have so many benefits, such as allowing you to grow food on what would otherwise be unsuitable ground, as well as being a set size so it makes planning easy. Find out more benefits here: https://youtu.be/jpVkmpQnlDc
How to build a raised bed? Watch these videos for more detail:
Raised bed from 1 pallet: https://youtu.be/ya7r420KQZs
Raised bed from planks: https://youtu.be/tJZZMlDclE4
Raised bed 7 tips for success: https://youtu.be/zmefXs8GaXc
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Them leeks look amazing!
please don't use old wheels thay often have heavy metals that bleed in the soil and in the plants and in your body
Hi Huw, just found your videos and found them really helpful, as we're starting to grow our own veg (albeit on a small scale!) Thanks ☺
Awesome update Huw hoping to make some beds soon ?
raised beds dry out so quick tho ;/ only downside
You're doing such important work!
Thank you for your advices.
Old tyres…definetely not!
I don’t have raised beds.. but I have had to use logs next to my garden to keep rain water from destroying it during storms. This year I dug a ditch around my garden instead. This would be great in a more permanent residence.
Thank you! Very informative and insightful video. I am starting my little project today 😀 …greetings from Poland!
Fantastic informative useful vid .
Thanks for sharing.
very good.. ❤
i hope those log are not train railroad very toxic
Thanks! Excellent tips especially cheap raised beds to get started (pallet collars). Keep it up
Silly question but if you did 100% compost is that ok? Also being watching your videos for a while now and there the best on YouTube 🙂
Those tires are raised beds.
Just bought your books. Have been watching you for a short while. I started gardening with Mel Bartholomew in the ‘80’s while watching PBS in Houston, TX. I now live in SE KS and my growing zone is 6B here. We have very hot summers, 90’s and cold winters, 5 to 10 degrees F. I am starting to garden again since I retired and would be able to compare my garden with yours better if I knew your zone. Then I could tell what might work for me. We are also humid, because we are in between the Kansas prairie and the Ozarks in Missouri. I like to garden in morning to early afternoon sun, giving my garden shade in the afternoon. Otherwise my garden shrivels up by late July. We love to grow yellow squash and Zucchini, (Courgettes) but fight squash bugs and vine borers. I have always grown organic. We have wonderful weeds Lol! here and have a good amount of rain usually. Tornado alley too. I used to grow pattypan squash but picked them much smaller (as I like to pick all my squash small) and never tried to keep them on the windowsill.
I have learned a lot from watching your channel and I look forward to reading your books and truly enjoy seeing all the UK and European gardens. Thanks for being on YouTube. It is all I watch now. KJPG
Hi saw your videos for the first time today. I am just fascinated by the idea of raised bed. Thank you so much for sharing and making it feel so simple. I need to know two things. One …what do you put at the base of the raised bed. Secondly…. I am staying in Goa,India where there is heavy rain from June to September. Will the raised bed take so much rain.?wont the wood get spoilt with one rain?. Please suggest.
How about cardboard placed on lawn and 5 inches of mushroom compost?
i just got given a raised bed to look after at an allotment, looks like this is my channel !
Hi Huw, you have a great channel…can i cover scaffolding planks with black plastic to make a raised beds so that they don't rot away to quickly, i intend to attach the plastic with staples? Thanks Howard.
Is it ok to build a bed out of slabs?
Hi Hew great tips and presenting quality of your vlog
Hi Huw, my garden is just chippings and a few slabs, should I line the bottom of the raised bed with something? Thanks in advance!
I really like it. Also check out Woodprix and plans.
Great channel, really knows his stuff. Can I bury prunings from my roses, buddleia etc in the bottom of raised beds? To save how much soil I need to find to fill them and save on garden waste collections?
Excellent. When you say use 50%-80% or 90% of soil are you referring to topsoil? Thanks