November 5, 2024

VIDEO: How to Fill Raised Vegetable Garden Beds and SAVE Money


In this video, I show how you can fill a raised vegetable garden bed and save money on soil costs! In this example, I filled my raised garden bed practically for free!

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Extra raised bed content I mentioned in the video:

Hugelkultur https://youtu.be/3O2qCQU7Cac
10 Reasons why raised beds are the best https://youtu.be/9DdsRBN5Hj8
Stay positive and build a raised vegetable garden bed https://youtu.be/U2vxgPyTrs8
How to quickly prepare a garden bed https://youtu.be/5ZqXSlu7-Pc

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24 thoughts on “VIDEO: How to Fill Raised Vegetable Garden Beds and SAVE Money

  1. Hi new to your channel and 100% loving it I live in the Atherton tablelands fnq and am getting a paddock ready for my raised beds,been learning g lots from. You will document as much as I can on hear loving the farming life have plastic raised beds at the moment,I'll use them as my seedling beds whe I have the rest in but thx for shearing your wealth of knowledge great stuff mate chow from tarzelie tom

  2. One thing I learnt, things that grow up don’t need much space below so fill with as much trimmings, crap dirt etc. Things that grow down need good space below so don’t over fill. Unfortunately our potatoes suffered this year due to filling too much and a really wet start to the season.

  3. My wife thought worms were bad and used to take them out of the soil,i explained to her how they broke down organic plants and bugs and turned them into nutrients for plants,and showed her your videos….now she gathers them up and puts them around her favourite plants….thanks Mark.

  4. I love your blog. I have a ranch in SoCal, in San Diego County, in the foot hills. Many of your tips work here as well. On the raised bed with the wood siding, how deep did you put your 4x4s?

  5. G’day Mark. I lost you over Winter. It’s great to see you back on here. I’m in the early stages of planting more Vegies. Tomatoes, Rhubarb. Thyme , Basil . For now. We’ve had a BIG heap of rain here in THE WEST this Winter.

  6. Like your one eye symbols do ya mate, good luck, when you find yourself in hell mate just remember, you put a massive effort into putting yourself there, the way to avoid going there is so easy, but you idiots think you are full of knowledge, I know secret hand shakes and have secret knowledge lol, talk about being full of pride and up yourselves, what a pathetic joke, absolute loser's.

  7. I am building two big raised bed and was about to order 10 big bags of top soil and they are not cheap but I have lots of vegetable roots to take it to garden recycling center to dump.
    After seeing this I only need to order about 5 bags.
    Thank you so much for your advice sir.

  8. Thank you so much for sharing your tips on raised beds. I'm enjoying your videos and am seriously thinking of starting a few… and I love your sense of humour. Thanks Mark! I'm watching from Fiji.

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