I'm not working with much space But I dug down far as I could - 3 feet sounds not so deep but it is for clay I built up about a foot of an interwoven core with tons of sticks - puzzled em together to fit as much as possible Filled in the soil Later I dug down 2 feet to the old core & added another tight bundle of stick jenga Got my little scythe & got 4 biiiiiig bundles of dry tall grass - u can pack as much as u can carry into a very small space. & then I just recently raked 6 inches of soil back to build a third core layer . Highly reccomend going crazy with cores. U can set aside a bed just for building soil. Stretching & balancing store bought soil out by a lot. Pop some potatoes or Jerusalem artichokes or ginger or garlic in there in the meantime. Very fun to know thats all getting eaten up by worms. Only way i know of to really improve drainage - also depending on ur area it would either increase or decrease drainage to your needs depending on what ur burying

I have watched all three of your raised bed videos and thoroughly enjoyed them. Being in our sixties my husband and I have been looking for easier ways to garden so we bought Vego beds. Please keep making videos about your garden. We would like to see what type of irrigation you use.

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Thanks for watching I'll keep them up for sure. I've gotten behind with editing but just posted another one today. More to come! Thanks again and keep gardening!

Whatever you fill these beds with sink a LOT. We have 12. Its been nonstop raining for months. We bought a few high beds in November and we are also doing hugelculture + Mels Mix. We filled them to the top and after a 2 months they dropped about a foot which means we have to fill again with Mels Mix. Then a month later (January) we filled it again. Now we are ready to plant in those 2 beds next weekend (April) but its dropped again about 8". I decided not to top it off again until these are at the end of their season in late fall. Not cheap for us to fill even with 1/2 the beds filled with free tree branches/leaves/cardboard/grass/neighbors chicken manure/kitchen scraps/garden scraps/homemade compost and then Mels Mix. but we have had success with this method and everything grows amazingly. Keep up the videos! Looking forward to more

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I will have an updated video of the sinkage and settling coming soon, I got behind on my editing and posting. Still pretty new to all this. Thanks for watching and for the info!

Cool shirt bro.