DIY Raised Garden Bed for Beginners Using Planter Blocks (No Nails)
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This is how I built my c-shaped raised vegetable garden bed using untreated cedar wood planks and planter bricks that I got from Home Depot. I wanted my garden bed to be c-shaped just because I think it's cuter than a rectangular bed and there's a small area for me to walk into and sit down. It has 2 layers so plants have at most 12" of soil to grow in and holds approximately 45 cubic feet of soil.
For a beginner gardener, this was a very easy to setup garden bed and I didn't need to use any hammer or nails at all thanks to the planter blocks. It was also fun to easily design the shape of the bed frame and slide the wood planks into place without any hassle. I'm not sure if the weed barrier will affect water drainage in my area, but the reason I used it was because my lawn has a lot of those white grubs living in the ground and tons of tree roots that have been known to sprout into trees in my backyard. Tag me @qdcrafts or email me qdcrafts@yahoo.com, so I can see your lovely garden beds!
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Supplies I used to build the frame (Canadian):
16 Planter Blocks: www.homedepot.ca/product/oldc...
Untreated Cedar Plank Dimensions:
Two 2"x6"x12'
Eight 2"x6"x3' (two 2"x6"x12' planks that were each cut into four pieces)
Six 2"x6"x5' (three 2"x6"x10' planks that were each cut in half)
www.homedepot.ca/product/porc...
www.homedepot.ca/product/porc...
A worker at Home Depot can help cut the planks to the exact measurements you need, I just asked someone by the lumber section and was very thankful since there would've been no other way for me to cut them :D
0:00 The Plan
0:36 The Materials
1:28 Preparing the ground
2:46 The Assembly
4:23 Adding the soil
5:56 Growing the veggies!
(c) Victoria T. 2021
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UPDATE! Here's how the raised bed has been doing over the years: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z36kwcp6eK7dnc4.html&ab_channel=QDCrafts Thanks so much for watching and happy gardening!
Finally someone with a realistic yard ❤
Remember since you have weed cover at the bottom, don't over water,it may be dried out on the top and still wet at the bottom, stick a dry stick down to see were the water level is peace 😊
I have seen some people fill raised beds with old mulch (or stick/wood), leaves, and grass to fill most of the space to save money, seems like a cost effective solution. Thanks for the amazing video!
@karinavlog9703
Жыл бұрын
So do the bottom with old leaves and soil on the top?
@rachelstauter
Жыл бұрын
@@karinavlog9703 yes! I filled mine with large sticks, leaves, old mulch from my flower beds, grass clippings, and other compostable stuff. Then put soil over top and rake it flat. You’ll have to put more soil the next year as the bottom layers decay but it’s a cheaper way to get started!
Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful!
Beautiful garden! Congrats!
Such a cute garden! I can wait to see your updates.
I love how crafty you are
WOW..pretty amazing thanks for the easy to follow directions
I love your gardens 😁
Beautiful! I want to start my own garden now!
Awesome! I can’t wait to start my garden
Love this kind of content. Consider posting more!!
Very helpful! I really like your bed. I am using your suggestions for my raised beds. Thanks 👍🍅😎
Your garden inspired me to do one just like yours. I'm super excited for harvest time.
Very creative!
Absolutely brilliant ❤ I am going to try this spring...thanks alot🙏
Awesome video & content! I also loved the math problem! Kudos to you & your Mom!
Never heard of planter blocks. Thank you for the great idea!
Excellent build
You are a lifesaver! Definitely will be my summer project
I just discovered your channel and I am in love with the quality, the content, and the kindness you are showing on all your videos! I am looking for a garden for my future house, and I really want to do the same thing. Thank you so much!
Oooh your doing garden videos now great, I love growing, raised beds and pots are great as they are so much easier to maintain. Yours looks great, those bricks that you just slot the wood into are a great idea. You should definitely do more videos with your plants, I’d love to see updates on your growing. I have grown a few edible things in the past, mainly tomatoes and bell peppers, I plan to grow more veg next year. I currently have other various plants in pots, you could also get some pots and grow plants that will flower to brighten up your garden 🪴🌻🌸😊
Yours has been the best to learn from . Thank you
Neat! I'll have to try this sometime soon. Thank you for posting this
Love it! Thank you for sharing your creativity and gardening insights.
@QDCrafts
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
You did a great job!
Very nicely done and great video!
Wow this is beautiful
Thanks for the helpful video, also learned about planter bricks from this video, such an easier way to make garden beds.
Beautiful! ❤️
I am going with this idea of using planter Block ❤❤❤
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank you for sharing. You just made my life easy
Very nice, I appreciate the spirit. ❤
Really Nice Job. I am looking to do the same thing in my yard. Those blocks will be easy to move if needed in the future. Thank you.
Lovely!! I can't wait to have a garden so I can make something like this. I like how it can be disassembled and reused if you ever want to change the shape.
This is by far the most helpful and economical raised garden beds online! Well done, my Asian sista 😊 my mom will be really happy when I have ours done!
Excellent tutorial, thank you so much!
Look very easy to build. Thank you for sharing.
Raised beds offer a cost alternative to traditional ground gardening with no added benefits long term other than perhaps aesthetic. You had perfectly good soil to grow veggies my grandma with 70+ years exp says. She's likes to watch farming videos😊
Good job, well done!
Thank you! This was incredibly helpful
Great video. Thank you for posting.
Awesome Job! Thanks for the inspiration!
You did good job 😊😊
Hey you did a great job
This is so do-able. I love how you were clear and concise without getting professorial. Will chk the other vids too!
I wish I saw this in the beginning of the summer before I bought a 70 dollar premade garden bed lol. I like the new content, I suggest making more garden based content in the future :)
Really nice garden. Mulch can help keep you from having constant dry dirt and you can do Vining plants vertically
Job well done
Love your garden beds. Peat moss is a cheaper alternative with three cow manure. I supplement with some raised bed soil. Soil is so expensive. I bought both of my raised beds wish I would have found your video earlier would have saved me money. I have peas lettuce and spinach in ground now with some zinnias and sweet allysum. I also started my tomatoes from seed a couple of months ago and I’m excited they’re almost ready to go in ground. Waiting for my last frost date. Happy gardening
I plan on doing something very similar to this but I'm going to have rows 4*8 or 12 parallel to each other with a cattle panel trellis crossing between the beds for the full length of the bed. You're climbing vegetables will do very well with this. Google cattle panel trellis if you don't already know about it. This is what I plan on doing in March. Thank you You did a good job 👍
What a great idea. Consider filling the bottom of the bed with yard waste such as sticks, leaves, or even grass clippings❤
omg it looks so good 🥰🥰
Omg I love you for this video ❤❤❤ I was scratching my head on how I would do my first garden bed.
@karinavlog9703
Жыл бұрын
Lol me too
Good job!
Great video!👍
😍👏👏👏thank you for video, I love it 😍
Nice video sharing
Really love a few things about this! Doing a fun project with your mom is amazing. Also really love the lanterns - great touch!
Thank you for sharing this video very Helpful n Beneficial
Looks great thanks
The holes in the top of the bricks are for rebar. Pound into the hole and the brick will not move with the pressure from the soil. 😊
Well done you 👍
Good idea 👍
great idea
great job!!
Beautiful. New subbie!!!❤❤❤❤
omg it looks great vic! awesome job on your first gardening project! 4:33 the one time math like this is useful in the real world LOL
Love it!
The blocks, planks and gravel do remind me of Minecraft. Good Job! That much soil would've killed the grass anyway so I will use newspapers instead of the plastic barrier. In the fall I would pile dried leaves over the bed and mix in veggie scraps and let them compost
I used your idea. It worked out great. 👍
@QDCrafts
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear! ☺️
Love It!
Loved your video! I’m hoping to try putting one together this year
@QDCrafts
28 күн бұрын
Thank you Amber, hope it goes well 😊
genius, thank you.
Awesome awesome awesome💯🥰🥰🥰
Your Minecraft gardener is adorable!!😂
Love your video. Is there an update? I would like to see the vegetables at the end of the growing season.
Hugelkulture!!!!!
Genius! To make it more permanent you can glue the wood using wood glue. I love this idea!
@QDCrafts
3 ай бұрын
Yes! Thank you! 😊
Wow, this has been so helpful. Finally have an idea how to go about building a veggie patch without having to use nails and drills 😅 Thanks!!
Thank yu soo much for this
great video! thanks for making this and showing us an easier way to make a raised garden bed! not sure if this has been addressed before but how do you keep birds and other animals away from your plants? thank you!
I did this with the same kind of blocks and I found if you have a long side that you really need to put a piece of rebarb in the middle because the long side is trying to bow out
AWESOME
Thank you!
Save your boiled egg water and water your garden with it. And even boiled potato water too. But the best it comfrey tea. Just put the leaves into a 5 gallon bucket of rain water. And grounded eggshell for the holes when planting tomatoes and pepper plants.
I read somewhere you weren’t happy with vegetables. Add the following to to soils and cultivate: Use bone meal for phosphorus, use blood meal for nitrogen and epsom salt for magnesium. Just research and make sure the vegetables you’re wanting to grow like all 3. Some only prefer 2 or even 1.
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> Make sure you pre-fit your 2x6 board(s) to one of your bricks to insure it will squeeze in between those cement joints. I bought some alleged 2x6 cedar planks from Lowes and they are a few mm's TOO BIG. I'll have to shave the edges of every one of them so that they'll fit properly. >
@DanaBearce
7 ай бұрын
This is what I have found as well. I am wondering where she got such nice cedar boards.
Thanks so much...
Thanks! great video. Been trying to find these planter boxes in New Zealand. Don't think we have them. If you know of any recommendations to get some, much appeciated.
Nice 😊😊😊good 👍👍👍
I love this idea! The hardest part is filling up rhe soil. That's a lot of bags! How is the weed barrier working out now?
Love the video. Perhaps also include an estimate of the cost for the materials, just a suggestion. Good job!
Wow! That’s how I want mjne
Looks good! One tiny idea I had was to use some construction adhesive to hold the blocks together. Not sure if you ran into issues with them shifting but just something I thought of. I like the C shape, useful for accessing all the veggies.
@debbyd5729
8 ай бұрын
These blocks have a hole in each of them for rebar. Rather than adhering, she could hammer the appropriate length of rebar to hold the blocks in place and keep them stacked.
Impressive, I wish they sold those blocks here in Japan. I want to do something like this in my garden as up until now I've been just doing directly into the ground.
@marissamalfeasance
11 ай бұрын
you might be able to order online
Weed barrier would block all the lovely worms. It will be a lot of work to remove the barrier, perhaps just stabbing some holes and break the sheets..And you will able to do more fun stuff (like adding compost bin or work bin) or grow root crops (potato carrots)
amazingggg ahhhh