This is the easiest bed you can create to grow food in. All you will need is plenty of organic matter and cardboard and you are all set to build a lazy bed which is also known as a no dig permaculture bed. The great thing about this is that you don’t need to worry about building raised beds and you can quickly create a growing set up. Are you a beginner or amateur vegetable gardener? Sign up to a ‘Tip of the week’ newsletter to expand your knowledge and get other great stuff: http://eepurl.com/bNDMnf
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I noticed there wasnt any update on this bed.
Having started beds and grown from similar looking ground – I would want a nice thick layer of cardboard, and I wouldn't want to use hay for mulch because there would be too many weed seeds. Cardboard is a brilliant barrier for couch grass but you do need to make sure that you've got a good enough covering.
Thanks for this great video! I am planning to start growing my own food this spring/now, as a beginner. But I live in Europe and I have a tiny backyard lawn and it is shady; few rays of light on sunny days but no direct sunlight on this spot, yet it’s not completely dark or covered by trees etc. Could anyone with gardening knowledge and experience, please advise 1) what vegetables can grow here successfully? 2) If I can literally just use this method of placing only 2 items, coffee/compost and cardboard, no additional manure, grass, wood, leaves, top soil etc which lasagna/other videos suggest? Thanks in advance for a quick and comprehensive response and any useful information and tips!
Hay or straw?! So many people say one when the mean the other.
Subscribed after two videos. You guys don’t complicate things. I don’t have time to learn involved things and nice 80/20 type stuff. Keep it up.
I remove all tape and shipping labels as they do not decompose well.
Card boards have a lot of chemicals in it. You can use them to cover some weeds to kill them. But using card boards as the base of your raised bed is not as safe as you may think. I will only use straws from my Timothy grass or wheat as the base. Let your Timothy grass grow as tall as it wants and you will have tons of straws!
I'm new to this and just wondering that some people will fork the ground first, is there any reason you don't think this is necessary?
Instead of planting in a grid, you might consider offsetting the plants to maximize root space via stacking hexagons as in a bee hive pattern
Wow! Ingenious. You can't get any lazier than that no matter how it turns out. Why didn't I think of that. Please
i was finding weeds germinating in the compost sometimes. now i put the compost straight on the ground, pasture etc etc then cardboard on that.finish with mulch and make small holes to transplant into. invaluable when your compost has weed seeds.
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What is better to put down in the bottom of raised beds plastic or cardboard? I have grubs and questionable soil under the beds>
That’s not a lazy bed a lazy bed is a technique originating from Ireland in which you cut chunks of sod out creating trenches then you put the sod in the trench upside down so that the grass breaks down below the surface and u get a ready to plant growing surface
This works so well. I would first soak the cardboard to get it quite saturated and when you lay it down make sure the edges overlap because leaving even small gaps will allow weeds to get through.
Didn't see any holes in the
cardboard, will the cardbd break down quickly enough to allow the roots penetrate? Nice big bed of rhubarb, love them pies.
If you were to put in gopher wire Would you place the gopher wire below the cardboard or over the cardboard
Last year I moved I to an untidy garden with no structure or real planting. I was keen to give No Dig a go, mainly because I'm lazy, have wrist pain and decided to use cardboard to lay down first.
My plants have grown well and strongly and whilst I give various feeding such as seaweed and bone meal for wine shrubs overall, am very pleased with the results. Lots of strong healthy growth plus few weeds.
I now have taken over a very over grown allotment and have already started laying down cardboard ready to plant out vegetables I've brought on at home.
Most informative. Have literally just done similar except I've put some wood to the layer above the cardboard. Going to plant corn that should be ready to go in a few days.. however, I'm wondering why nobody is taking yet about hemp mulch.. it's an amazing product. I've used it for many years, it encourages a stronger/better yeild, and has many other benefits. Take a look at this:
https://www.marijuanatimes.org/why-hemp-mulch-is-better-for-vegetable-gardens/
Can I put would chips around my plants
Wood chips
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What does the bed look like now?
Hasn't the wind taken the hay away and hasn't the hay brings seeds?
Just looking at that hay, makes me grab an antihistamine. I'm starting to sneeze already
Great video, thanks for the content and please keep producing
Rhubarb is frost hardy
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