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0:00 – Intro
1:11 – Perfect Placement
2:51 – Create Your Own Growing Environment
4:12 – Protection and Extension
6:33 – Themed Raised Beds
7:39 – Watering Tips
8:57 – Pest Control
10:11 – Easy Crop Rotation
10:58 – Birdies Bed Giveaway
RAISED BED GIVEAWAY
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Win 1 of 5 custom-painted Birdies Raised Beds: https://bit.ly/epicstraingegiveaway I teamed up with Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Strainge Beast Hard Kombucha for this EPIC giveaway, which includes 35 signed copies of my 2nd book, Grow Bag Gardening, and 500+ other goodies. Just a way for me to say a huge THANK YOU for being a part of the Epic Gardening community. Giveaway runs April 12-16, 21+ USA entrants! Keep on growing, Kevin
If I buy non GMO seedlings and use organic soil,fertilizer, and organic pest control will the crop be considered organic? Or do the seeds need to be organic along side organic gardening practices?
Is there anywhere in Canada to get the Birdies Beds or do they ship only from the States?
I hope you use SPF every day. It's like mulch for your skin.
I'll trade you squirrels, mine jump a good 3-4' to grab onto my bird feeder!
Hey Kevin! Was wondering if you've already done a video on how to keep birds away from your garden. I've read up a lot about home remedies and smells that birds hate (mint, cayenne, garlic, etc) to keep them away, but I'm not entirely sure if they work. I currently have a terrace garden, and birds are my number one enemy.
Can you create a raised bed that is free from rats? Like plexiglass around maybe?
Hi Kevin thank for sharing so much you explain helps to understand why..tjank you
I have axquestion can i use ANY Bagged mulch from box stores for my containets. I plant everything in fabric bags but i need to mulch to help with moisture and splash back. I hope you can answer i dont have leaves or strsw. I live in FL WEST COAST
you have yet to see a squirrel get into a tall bed? you have yet to meet the squirrels around me – they are simultaneously amazing and extremely annoying because they are very skilled at getting into things squirrels shouldn't be able to get into
Do we have any winners? Seriously love these things.
Those cacti are incredible- wow- just wow!
Waiting for my 6-in-1 bed to be shipped! Hope it ships soon…
Waiting on my Bridies !!!! So excited for them .
When will the winners be announced?
Oh and I forgot I want to add a tower of strawberries.
Just about to get into gardening. My wife wants raised beds that are off the ground. I see most raised beds are on ground level. Is that just not as good or just a preference thing?
Where can I buy the Olla? I noticed there's no link in the description
hi Kevin. you might have a solution to my clay layer underground situation, turning the problem in advantage. (I'll try my poor English here). all my half hectare plot has decent soil layer of 30 to 35 cm. but then a second layer of 30 to 35 cm clay, where almost no roots from the native vegetation to see. finally the hardest clay where no life at all, spanning maybe from here in Bolivia to your spot. ok, may be not that deep :). Bolivia, mountains, in my case 30% slope all around.
trying to plant 100 trees I opened 60cm deep holes for them. they all fill with rainwater the first clay layer and take over a week, two or more to dry. like your plastic wicking beds almost. right?
most tree species will not survive the rainy season ore will suffer 🙁 but they will need irrigation the 6 months dry season! should I turn my entire space in a wicking bed? fill every tree hole the bottom 20 cm with a ring of pebbles and coarse sand in the center and then refill with the soil was digged out closer to the surface (mixed with compost manure debris charcoal etc.)? put a geotextil or not in between both layers? seems to me ( a beginner gardener) like drainage on one hand for rainy season and water reservoir for dry season. the really costly adding could be the need to channel water out from every hole with a 2 meters ditch to control the water table in the hole. what do you thing? thanks a lot in advance. sounds like a to epic proyect!
I realised my husband did listen to me (sometimes at least) when a copy of Kevin's book arrived in the post. I'm only half way through, but I'm loving it.
Great videos! I am a big Ruth Stout fan!! Just a share for you, my garden in Sacramento, ca was clay. My husband and I collected night crawler worms(not from my yard) for fishing. We dumped the leftover worms in the garden and lawn. After about 5 years the worms had seriously improved the clay soil!! We had at least a foot of good soil in the lawn. The garden was even better. Nightcrawlers like to eat clay soils(?)
Hey man, massive thank you to all your content over the last few years. I've been going back through some of your old stuff the last couple of weeks, and its been a massive help in the garden. Love your work, keep up the good stuff!
Geez YouTube is a slut for ads. The ad at the end of every video robs me the opportunity to like your videos. Kinda tricky to remember at the beginning sometimes but it always pops into my mind at the end of videos but before anyone can press like the stream of 30 minute commercials begin. Never fails and always annoys. Doesn't seem like YouTube cares about anything but ad revenue, definitely not what it used to be. You have great videos, the platform is desperately greedy. Definitely makes watching videos a chore rather than entertainment. Unless you wanna pay YouTube to shove their ads where the sun don't shine, you have to continuously skip hour long ads. At this point it is cable tv. Remember how much everyone hated those greedy providers that flooded customers with advertising and false guarantees? Looks pretty familiar, eh YouTube.
Beautifully painted garden beds. Sorry I missed out on that!
So. Who won?
I just started watching your channel and holy fuck you cover so goddamn much and so eloquently and easy to understand. Thank you so much <3