One of the most important things a gardener can do is look after and cherish the soil they use to grow vegetables, and this video shows you how I do just that. This is the complete guide to preparing raised beds for winter and offers an updated version of how I go about that, with the addition of new steps designed to propel soil health. Growing your own food is made easier and more productive if we look after our beds properly, and this method is exactly what I use in my permaculture kitchen garden to do just that.
Think of preparing raised beds for winter as an investment in your vegetable gardening. Adding organic matter to the ground replenished all the soil microbes and gives you a head start when it comes to planting again in the beds in spring. An investment in soil yields greater crop returns, provided you use other permaculture principles to limit pest issues. I hope this vegetable gardening method will become a key part of your gardening year and help your kitchen garden or allotment become even more abundant.
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I have a couple of QUESTIONS for you Huw. 1) what growing zone do you live in?
2) my ground is to rocky to dig up or grow in so I want to build a raised bed. A nursery down the road sells garden soil where they mix 50/50 top soil and compost together. Can I use this for starting a raised bed and then at the end of the season just top off the bed like you did in this video?
3) After building the bed and filling it, do I need to use granular or liquid fertilizer during the planting and growing season?
Excellent video! Thanks for Sharing!! placing the plant material over the soil is totally in line with one of the permacultural principles of not leaving any bare soil too!! Absolutely keeps the microbes happy, which ARE the soil health!! Cheers!
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Can we throw a mix of chicken manure and straw over the bed?
How do you prevent tree roots from invading your raised bed?
Great tips! Definitely going to try this next fall. Thanks!
snowing plant bits might not be as exciting as the real thing, but it‘s exciting for the microbes 🙂 that is so sweet! love this channel´
Chop and drop sounds great, but probably not a good idea if you have weeds with seed in your drop veg.
Im just wondering since Im new: Wont it overflow after a couple years?
Thank you very much!!!!
W’ll be enter autoumn in a feo weeks , tris is Just what a esa looking for … lean learn and
Your soil looks so healthy!
Do you sift your compost? And if so, how? Mine always has clumps of leaves and small sticks in it.
Question- in the spring do you remove the roots of the plants from the year before?
Great advice. Thank you!
Hiya, I want to grow some vegetables, my garden is quite large however the part that I can use is small, I can get, I would say 3 raised beds, about 3ft x 8ft, what veg would you recommend or point me to one of you're vids, which are great BTW.
Hello Huw, we have loads of oak leaves in autumn. Would it work to utilize these to to the top layer on the beds? Or are oak leaves too sour? Thank you!
nice info…greetings from Romania..
.well done..please tell me what kind of microphone do u use…i want to do some videos also
looks great, but does this make a massive slug trap or are they not interested as its only compost? x
I just got my first allotment. I am trying the method as my whole plot was thick weeds (docks and foxgloves). I have de weeded as best I can. Forked the soil- put compost down and covered with a membrane. Should I lift it every now and then and hoe any weeds growing or leave it till spring? Thank you
SO much great information here, thanks so much! Not surprisingly, I’ve been doing it wrong. Happy to know how to do it right after this!
Merci pour ce partage ! Continue a faire plus de vidéos ! Je suis sûr que d'autres gens seront intéressés ! Et dès que j'aurais un jardin je me formerai sur ton site 😉
Thank you for this excellent video!
I have a very stubborn morning glory plant that goes everywhere, should I leave the roots in the ground or pull them out? I don't mind morning glories, but they choke out everything around them.
I know you would usually use the Dandelion and Milk Thistle as compost material, but would you leave a small section aside to harvest them as food items also?
Why you throw away the fennel leaves? They are edible
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