Great use of common sense. You saved me a lot of effort. I am 80 and getting into farming now.

True that and the Australian homie who doin his thing holding in down down under with the self sufficientness....that guy legit too

@d.w.stratton4078

4 жыл бұрын

He's a total cornball which I love. Wish he was doing veganic permaculture á la Will Bonsall though.

@demetriusthompson2362

3 жыл бұрын

Self-sufficiency

@ramunerocks

3 жыл бұрын

@@HandlesAreForPussies Do you offer translations of comments in other languages, too?

@Probity100

3 жыл бұрын

Shawn Connell could you repeat that in English please? Thank you

@ramunerocks

3 жыл бұрын

Since people are still commenting and I'm getting notifications for this- I, as a native English speaker trained in second language acquisition and linguistics, want to make it clear that Shawn Connell is speaking English and that to say he isn't speaking English is quite rude.

If you want to do hügelkultur, you SHOULD put in some coarser matter like logs and twigs at the bottom since they will take a long time to compost, providing natural heat for your raised bed. Next level is plant and grass clipping, then a layer of partially composted material and manure and then garden soil mixed with fully composted matter. While the layers compost, the density will increase and you fill up your raised bed with compost/soil every year. That way a raised bed will last around six to seven years till you have to start it anew. Of course you can leave it but then you lose the advantage of earlier and more abundant growth. ETA: Please don't use any soil that contains peat. While it's fantastic for your garden, it comes from bogs which are decimated for peat production, resulting in the loss of a unique natural habitat. It is not considered re-newable.

@jerryscanas

11 ай бұрын

couldn't we simply load peat bogs up with organic material for it to start breaking down all over again???

@BlueJadeU

11 ай бұрын

Use Coconut Coir in the place of Peat. Very sustainable.

@kimherben7866

11 ай бұрын

​@@BlueJadeU Hi, I live in Texas; so cotton Hulls and rice husks are a good replacement for peat. In addition, we have a lg. Compost pile.

@Skorpychan

10 ай бұрын

@@jerryscanas Not really, because you drain them to harvest the peat. It was fine in the past, when it was only taken for local gardens and home fuel, but industrial-scale extraction is removing it faster than it's replenishing. It's a fossil fuel like coal.

@Patchy921

9 ай бұрын

That's what I expected him to do when he mentioned Mark's method, Mark uses logs at the bottom. I much prefer brown matter to grass clippings but that's mostly cause in my area there's a bore grass everywhere and it and some invasive weeds will grow up many inches if it gets the chance to, collect heaps of leaves in autumn/fall and use them.

Stumbled across your channel this morning and wanted to say thank you! We lost out house in the city to a fire, and decided to move to the country. We have never gardened before, so my daughter and I are brand new to this. Weve just put up about 12 raised beds and started some tomatoe seedlings. They just started poking their little heads up and- i started to panic lol. Now what? How do I move them? When and how often do I water? So many questions and no one to ask. So, thanks to google, I found you and a few other amazing gardeners who are sharing their knowledge. We appreciate you so very much. ❤

Lol whenever I’m filling up a new raised bed, I remind my friends this is the perfect place to hide the bodies.

@starbrite526

2 жыл бұрын

Like That Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode.

@danielson2454

2 жыл бұрын

Organic fertilizer 🤔

@thereinthetrees_5626

Жыл бұрын

@@danielson2454 very much non-organic

@AG-oe2wt

Жыл бұрын

Wow thanks FBI

@yaakovina

Жыл бұрын

@@AG-oe2wt you do realize it’s a joke, right?🤣

I ended up spending $80 on soil ingredients (peat moss, leaf humus compost, vermiculite, and perlite) today to fill a 12' x 5' bed, which I anticipate will be about 12" high. I appreciate this video very much because to purchase any more of those ingredients would almost defeat the purpose of saving money by growing my own food. Lots of us growers need to do it on a budget, so I appreciate the thought that went into this video.

@alliseburris566

11 ай бұрын

Throw your fireplace/bonfire ashes into your mix, shredded newspaper, coffee grounds (ask your local coffee shop), fur from the pet groomer, spent mushroom compost, etc. Lots of materials available for free or nearly free.

This channel and self sufficient me are my favorite garden channels very informative. It would be awesome to see you guys do a colab video

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

We did one in the past, but we're going to do another!

@jakep8678

4 жыл бұрын

@@epicgardening 😮 I didn't even know what a wanker

@JNYC-gb1pp

4 жыл бұрын

Hollis and Nancy is awesome too...so is the Rusted Gardener and project diaries

@barbarap8602

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Dowding is also great.

@DebRoo11

4 жыл бұрын

@@JNYC-gb1pp it's so great to get a variety of ideas and info from different sources.

Thank you so much!! My husband is building a raised bed for me for Mother’s Day tomorrow and I’m super excited to start gardening! We were freaking out about the cost of soil this morning though and feeling pretty discouraged. So glad I just found this! ☺️👍🏼

@staceyogier6154

3 жыл бұрын

How did your veggie patch go?

I've been doing this for years. Totally a money saver. Basically use bottom half of your bed as a compost pile and cover with raised bed mix to plant in to. Works like a charm. Great video!

Anyone else notice Kevin kinda looks like Dean Cain? I feel like Superman is teaching me how to garden 😄❤

You and Self Sufficient Me are my favorite people to watch on this topic. Keep it up you two

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

3:00 Get you some 1/3 *COMPOOST*

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

B/c manure works too :)

@lindastonebraker2512

4 жыл бұрын

I came to see the poo 💩

@RideAlongside

4 жыл бұрын

Epic Gardening I see what you did there

@Zizzyyzz

3 жыл бұрын

@@epicgardening Nice save.

@cwsspot

3 жыл бұрын

I see I wasn't the only one to catch that😂

Thanks so much for this video and all the others. I run a native nursery here in SD and just started a veggie garden in my yard and I'm SO BAD at it! You've already saved me from making some major mistakes but I know I'll still make a lot along the way.

I've been doing that for months, kitchen scraps, yard clippings, filling two huge raised beds. Did some big limb trimming and mulched the branches, that went in too. Once it was about 1/3 full or so, I went out and got a few Huge bags of organic raised bed soil, and now I got veggies on one side of my patio and some decorative plants on the other side.

How neat that you got to actually work with Mel! And thank you for the tips

Thank you for this! We’re starting our first outdoor garden and I’m a complete newbie. Your videos are very informative which I love

LOVE MARK. I have 2, now 3 gardening channels I subscribe to, Mark was my first. What a wealth of information you all provide! Thank you!

Brilliant video. We’ve just bought exactly that type of raised bed in the UK. Your video was informative and has given me confidence on how to fill it properly and economically. Thank you!

Thanks for producing informative videos which are packed with ideas. Plus, you're to the point and I don't get bored.

This last October we had a massive ice storm. The power company, as they cut down downed limbs and trees, they just piled them up and left them for homeowners to clean up. I used it to start six 4×12 foot raised beds. I have also gotten a kiddie pool and some fabric pots to start a small 'necessaries' garden until I can fill my beds with organic materials. Thank you for all of the info, am a new subscriber, and will be bingeing your channel tonight! Much love from Oklahoma!!!

This is exactly what I'm planning to do in my new raised beds, and larger containers. The price of compost has become astronomical here in England (more profiteering!!!) so I'm using pruning, leaves, garden, and kitchen waste. Keep calm, and carry on! 😊👍🌱

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

You got this

@JNYC-gb1pp

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of profiteering going on right now with the few annointed companies that are allowed to stay open. Kinda fucked up.

I can't believe you posted this 45 mins ago. Just right in time, thank you so much!!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Got you covered!

Thank you so much! Mel’s Mix was so expensive for us. It’s too late for our garden, but we need alternatives if we want to expand.

great video, finally a video that gets right to the point. I have a huge compost bin that will go to good use now filling up my raised bed. Thanks for the info!

Awesome raised bed gardening tips! We are just now clearing out the leaf coverings from our beds. Can't wait to get into that soil! Very glad to meet you. Just happily cultivated all of the positive buttons. Hope you are having a fantastic day ♡

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

What I like about your garden is that it takes up room that would normally be lawn which you would have to mow the grass.

Thanks for this. I have some 17 1/2" tall beds to fill. I am going to line the bottoms with some old grey firewood I never got around using.. also some branches and tree trunks laying around yard. Will save a lot of money.

We just bought some big pots for decoration and I am glad I saw this before I put some of my good stuff in it. We've got a lot of sticks and logs that will work fine.

We built 6 raised beds and underestimated the cost of filling them 😂 the growing season for us is almost over anyway so I may start a compost pile for the next season.

We used tree branches and compost/ mulch, finished off with mushroom compost.

When we were in Manilla our appartment had deep concrete planter boxes. I filled them up with 3/4 coconut husks then bought planting mix. Beautiful tropical garden.

You and Mark are two of my top favorites!

Thanks Kevin! Love how you just accentuated and expanded on something I already do -- and I'll definitely use some of your tips. Some additional things I use include "old used" potting mix (window boxes and containers that are ready for fresh soil after some years of use), lower quality ground soil that I partly replace when planting roses, shrubs, and perennials, leaves leaves leaves saved from last fall, and the boxes and boxes of organic matter from my husband's orchid growing hobby (okay, "obsession" -- tons of leaves, roots, flowers, and used growing medium). Thanks again -- love your channel -- just discovered it this winter. So ready to use your tips in my small Chicago vegetable garden!

@Patchy921

9 ай бұрын

Yes, mix that soil with plant clippings and lots of leaves and let the bugs and worms get to work.

You can also use cardboard and newspapers as well, I even shredded up the box that the raised bed came in and mixed that in with the other materials I put in the bottom.

@another8125

2 жыл бұрын

totally, and mix up that shredded cardboard with absolutely free manure at the bottom, there aint nothing more therapeutic than mixing dry cardboard with fresh wet manure, if cant get rotted manure you could actually just use fresh if its right at the bottom and your plants will do a little dance when it come to 3 months in and its time for their roots reach that far down, they'll say thank you....of course!

@karenholt8441

2 жыл бұрын

I’m planning on starting a raised bed garden in our property. We’ll have to protect it from deer etc. but this has been so helpful, because we have lots of brush from fallen trees this last winter! Thank you for saving me more $$$. I follow the Aussie guy too, since I am Ausmerican, myself.

@johnlee7085

Жыл бұрын

Karen - When you build your raised beds, add pieces of rebar (#4, 1/2”) in the corners embedded at least a foot in undisturbed soil. It’s then easy to attach deer netting. We’ve added 3/4” pvc pipes connected with tee’s at the rebar for a top and to keep it more rigid. Another option is to drill a 5/8” hole halfway into a 2x2 or 2x4 to slip over the rebar and exterior wood screws to connect the pieces of wood into a frame.

@BestGranny10

Жыл бұрын

What about shredded paper? My hubby is a shredding machine! I thought I could use it too

@jodibraun6383

Ай бұрын

I have access to a bunch - A BUNCH- of flat egg cartons that I plan to use to fill some of my new beds this year. Just tear them up & toss em in.

I'm so glad I was able to come across this video. I just spent a little over $100 for top soil and potting mix; and still seems like that wasn't enough. That was my garden budget! I do have lots of grass clippings and cut up branches that I needed to do something with (spouse will be happy to see that gone). Thank you for the knowledgeable and well spoken information.

Another one here referred from Mark's channel Self Sufficient Me. I just finally order a few birdies beds I am getting my garden ready thanks a lot to both you and Mark, subbed.

Gardening with Leon has a great video on filling large tubs with materials. Well worth watching !Also great for moisture control.

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

Nice vid - thank you 👍🏽 I generally fill big pot and raised areas with any old smashed crockery, plastic objects and broken bricks.. plants like to wrap their roots around things which also serves as oxygen pockets.

@sdfmills9909

Жыл бұрын

I would suggest avoiding plastic matter but otherwise totally agree with your post.

Oh, and, you have helped me tremendously with this technique - thank you !!

Thanks for this (and all your other) videos. I'm a new gardener with bad knees. I'm thrilled to see a raised bed assembled at this height.

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I've used this method in the past without knowing that it had a name.

@jeepwran

4 жыл бұрын

I started just six inch raised beds this way with good results

@songmakerdragon2393

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeepwran My great aunt and uncle had raised beds (which converted to cold frames in the winter) that he made. They were wonderful! They were about 10 inches deep, but were on waist-high legs. If I ever have property on which to make such things, I want to use their set-up as my model!

I love Mark of My self-sufficient me! And I am so glad we can finally get those raised beds here in the US. Still, with things the way they are it's going to be an expenditure. But well worth it I'm sure in the long run Glad I found your channel!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Totally - these are not for those looking to save $ right now, that's for sure. But if you do the math on time + cost of wooden beds + replacing every 5-7 yr...it starts to make a lot more sense!

@stephaniebalducci6248

4 жыл бұрын

These aren't that heavy from what I understood. How come it's such expensive shipping? Are they coming from Australia? Not that they're not worth it just curious.

This is Great, I'm filling 12 beds 8 that are fairly tall and I need this! Great Vid

I love the style in which you explain things and make it easy for anyone to pick it up. Great work. Love the channel.

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Buzzin you mentiones Mark from SSM! He's such a legend :) really loved your video man, thank you so much for sharing. Big love! ❤️

depending on what you use and grow you can go higher with the filler. In one bed I actually had sticks and twigs and leaves just bellow the surface and it caused no problems. Some plants even seem to like this. Not recommended for most root crops though or not at least until it breaks down more. Thanks for a great video Subscribe

This blew my mind! Thank you so much.

Here two years later - after buying 6 birdies beds from you! I need a super cheap way to fill. The soil in my area is really bad (had it tested) and working on amending that area in the mean time. thanks Kevin!

Im making my garden beds at least 1 metre tall as im also 6'4" and also keeps my Jack Russel and Mini Foxy off my garden i live in the tropics of Northern Australia great channel cheers.

@sheilajohnson6478

4 жыл бұрын

Wesley Raistrick I’m American. Australia is such a beautiful place, I’d love to go there someday.

@tjw1861

4 жыл бұрын

Sheila Johnson yes it is but I think it will now be a long while before Americans are allowed into Australia unfortunately with their Coronavirus well managed

@downunderthunder2538

4 жыл бұрын

@@sheilajohnson6478 Yes it is a nice place i live in the North of Australia a place called Cairns in the tropics.

Well done ! Very well explained with great advice on using the logs, twigs and veg trimmings 👍🏼👍🏼 Try to avoid using peat here to preserve our remains peat bogs. All the best from Ireland, Hugh 😊👍🏼🌿

@johnlee7085

Жыл бұрын

Guessing you don’t have a lot of rice production in Ireland, but it is a local (CA, left coast) waste product turned beneficial alternative soil amendment. Wish more people would promote it and save your bogs.

@amyjames745

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, please don’t use peat!

This is great tip. I’ll definitely follow this. Did not want to waste all that space.

Same idea for my 6 meter X 1.2 meter bed. I used an old pine tree cut into rounds & backfilled with hardwood woodchips delivered for free. Here in Australia it is very hard wood but I found it started breaking down slowly over the next year & needed topping up after each crop with compost. A good thing is that it holds a lot of moisture & reduces how much I need to water. Important here with our high temps in summer. Works really well. After 2 years now when I dig down it is great looking black loamy soil that grows anything.

Love this. Down here in Texas we use stock tanks for raised beds. Maybe not as fancy looking, but definitely much less expensive than any I’ve seen on all the online sites. As for filling them up, glad to learn what we’ve been doing is the recommended way. Thanks. 😊

@jamespena2663

2 жыл бұрын

So I found his planters ( the one he showed) to be the same cost as the ones he showed but much larger and modular. Just got mine, check it out

@debbieday6885

11 ай бұрын

How do you keep fire ants out of your raised beds? I'm in the Hill Country. Those little bastards are everywhere.

Mel Bartholomew always leaves a warm spot in my heart! I never missed Square Foot Gardening in my misspent youth. I even got the book and started my own garden. Thank you for that callback!

I love Mark from SS Me! That's actually how I found your channel and learned about the Birdies! I'm excited to start Veg gardening!

You sir are a genius. I have these deep raised beds and so far I just fill them up halfway🤷🏾‍♀️. But now I'll do as you suggested. Thanks so much!!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

Kevin I emailed you about this very subject, thanks for addressing it in a video. I found a video from a old Penn state cement block raised bed garden where she uses hay/straw bales. We got 2 for each bed and they fit perfectly in the large Birdie beds (which I love). Filled the rest with the soil /compost mix and just planted my cool weather veggies

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool, glad this worked!

That is a great idea for urban gardeners, Kevin. I suspect the bottom carbon rich layer will become a water retention reservoir that may cause the plants to grow their roots a bit deeper than they are used to

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Siloé - yeah, I'm curious to see myself! Hope you are well and great to hear from you

Thank you for all your videos. They are so informative!!

Five seconds into your video and I subscribed. You're awesome.

I've got my compost from Sacramento county. And it's up to 5 yards free for local resident.

"Compoost" , lol! The kids and I are making raised beds this year... it has been.... an experience, lol!

Thank you for the tips! I actually started gardening after I read Mell's book and it is quite expensive to fill the whole thing

I like this guy, he seems pretty practical.

Thank you for this video! I love it!!!😉 Though I love the idea of Charles Dowding’s No Dig concept, I much prefer the extra tall bed method I learned from Mark at Self Sufficient Me as you’ve mentioned! So easy on the back & convenient that I’m more likely to get out & garden! 😆

I started with Mark then Charles Dowding. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one learning from them.

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

They're masters

@marshabennett8107

4 жыл бұрын

I love both of them too!

@jeanettewilkinson6362

4 жыл бұрын

Apollo SOL Mark in Queensland Australia is great 👍

@barbarap8602

4 жыл бұрын

Love Mark & Charles. 👍🏻🥰

Thank you! Great information! I am in Missouri and most people need raised beds because it's so rocky.

Super BRILLIANT idea...great gardening information. Thanks so much for sharing..❤💖💝

Great videos Kevin!! Keep them coming, I live in ontario, zone 5b so these videos have been very informative. They will also serve me well for my batchelor of agriculture and sciences!!

I garden in 9 galvanized horse troughs since they are plentiful here in Montana and I fill them with local renewable peat moss from a small pond bed along with branches, leaves, aging apples from our orchard, grass clippings, and cardboard/newspaper. We have a dairy nearby that has a methane digester putting out wonderful compost which we buy in pickup truck loads. I add worms when I find them in my garden. I just put together my first water-wicking trough after learning from Gardening with Leon. Now if it would just warm up. I don't know what I would do without all you generous KZread teachers.

@ricksussman1411

20 күн бұрын

Hi I'm new to this.. Don't I need to drill holes in the bottom for drainage?

@mjb9176

9 күн бұрын

@@ricksussman1411 If only using it as a raised bed: I remove the plug found on the side. It’s about an inch hole which seems to allow for plenty of drainage in our area. If you live where it rains a lot, maybe you would. But once you do, the trough has no other value than as a raised bed or wood box. If creating a wicking tub, no. PS: I have moved away from wicking tubs in our area. We are too dry a climate.

At the bottom of every container, or raised bed, I use a few inches of clay pellets. The same type that people use for aquaponics. Allows for better drainage. Sand on top of that. Along with the twigs, branches, leaves, and organic matter, I scoop on worm castings and worms to process it all.

That was so helpful. I am definitely going to use it for my raised beds.

Thanks for the tips man! Glad you made a joke of spilling that soil😂

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

;)

You can also add a layer of sand or even pebbles at the very bottom of your raised bed for drainage, as well as take up volume so you don't have to use so much compost. Rotted tree limbs and such are generally very easy to find along the road side in most areas or at a creek bed or such. I am assuming that you do have drain holes in the bottoms of your raised metal garden containers. Nice video and information.

@thekid7000

11 ай бұрын

Rocks and pebbles in a raised bed? Nah. That can lead to root rot because the water isn't draining properly

Love you and your videos. I forgot about the mulch, thanks for that reminder! I used leaves at the bottom of mine...thankfully I had not gotten rid of them yet.

I learned that very thing with filling the beds from dirtpatchheaven! thanks! your beds are very attractive and a great use of urban yard.

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

So nice of you!

I just get free compost from the city green waste dump. Had to make a few trips but free is free 😀.

@dorisagape9768

4 жыл бұрын

What city do you live in

@sjn7220

4 жыл бұрын

Doris Velez I live in the Bay Area in Northern California. I go to the Sunnyvale SMaRT station for compost. My parents live in the twin cities in MN, they can get free compost too.

@marymidgett2022

4 жыл бұрын

Good idea,I’ll check into it

@sjn7220

4 жыл бұрын

@A H The place I get it from claims to be certified organic. I think most chemicals (herbicides and pesticides) will degrade during the composting process. It's mostly leaf waste around here as there's not many lawns.

@1rstjames

4 жыл бұрын

Most municipal compost piles are rife with anaerobic organisms which is a breeding ground for pathogenic organisms. This is because municipal composting operations are more concerned with sterilization versus maintaining aerobic conditions in the pile, obtaining 131°+ temperatures for the given period requirements, etc.

Heck yeah. This is the way to go. I call it a "modified hugulkulture" It works great with chunky compost at the bottom (which for us is usually chicken manure and wood chips from tree trimmers.)

@beckyc.244

6 ай бұрын

Can you put the chicken manure directly into your raised bed? My neighbor has chickens and just tosses the stuff into the city waste. I would love to have it but am worried about burni g the garden.

@feralkevin

6 ай бұрын

Chicken manure needs to be composted before used. @@beckyc.244

Thanks for sharing your information, love your garden containers 👍❤️😊

I like the idea of being thrifty and this year for sure , I love your garden it really is beautiful ! The raised beds are so sharp looking .

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I had a good giggle at the 3:00 mark. Compoost🤣🤣

Awesome tip. I have partially composted matter that would be perfect for this. Thanks Kevin and glad you gave a shout out to my fellow Aussie Mark, whose vids I also love. Let's get into it!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

Folks have used this for years - infact it's what's behind the straw bales idea as raise bed. I prefer what call my way - a reverse raised bed. However, everyone has a twist on what's right for them. Thanks for your time and consideration in helping others.

We did one bed this way this fall - so far it's a couple of logs on the bottom, yard waste, shredded leaves, coffee grounds, some ground-up eggshells, and remnants of bagged compost; I'll top that off with bagged mix before planting in the spring. My husband and I have decided that we'll use our Christmas tree for the next one. 😄🎄 Learning a ton from you, Mark, Charles, Liz Zora, James Prigioni, and then for my climate MI Gardener this year.

Yrs ago I learned a trick for taking up space in lg containers which is to literally throw in pages of newspaper, chunks of cardboard, organic filling like leaves about halfway up, then fill with soil, the filling breaks down in the soil and feeds it. It works very well. BTW those metal containers are $199 each.....ouch

@mmdoz711

4 жыл бұрын

OUCH !!!! I CAN MAKE THEM IN STEAD

@mimimo59

4 жыл бұрын

Mary Mande how?

@_Not_Retarded

4 жыл бұрын

@@mimimo59 Metal fabrication

@MadManMatrix

4 жыл бұрын

199 my god thats maybe 3 dollars of metal and 2 dollars of screws talk about a crazy markup.

@eop9969

3 жыл бұрын

Just use metal or aluminum roofing and some 4x6 and make it yourself.

How very appropriate that this video should appear today, as I'm building a new raised bed in my home garden (I'm in lockdown London..) I'm filling up most of the bed with wood chips, free from the local tree surgeon. I will also bulk up the precious little compost I have with coconut coir. Would you please consider going peat free, as peat moss is hugely unsustainable and intensive mining of peat has adverse effects on the climate, and destroys valuable ecosystems. In the UK, peat is being phased out, and although we did not meet the target of 2020,it will happen. Thanks for great content and useful channel! 🌱🌱

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah there's a lot of debate around peat, the crazy part is that about 1% of global peat use is for home gardening applications, the other 99% is for industrial / commercial scale stuff. So home gardeners even if we completely quit peat, are making almost no difference in usage

Ooh yay! Shout out to Mark 🤟🏻

Perfect advice, perfect timing for me thank you. I will look for you now

those raised beds are pretty!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

I think so too!

Organic matter, but if you need a lot for several beds, straw is great, it makes the perfect soil.

@dorisagape9768

4 жыл бұрын

I am new at this, where would you recommend I go can in Florida to buy or get straw?

@MrJivanMukti

4 жыл бұрын

Doris Velez you can check feed stores. They often have bales of hay for sale.

@morgenoghmanann8746

4 жыл бұрын

@@dorisagape9768 ~ Tractor Supply is a great resource, if you have one close by. Feed, and lawn and garden stores also should be able to help you out. If they don't carry what you are looking for, they almost always know where you can locate some.

@karenrickert9430

4 жыл бұрын

Doris Velez If you go to Tractor Supply, it’s bedding straw for animals.

@barbarap8602

4 жыл бұрын

You can also use cardboard and newspaper as well.

Thank you Kevin and God bless. New gardener. Learning a lot from you.

Kevin, The Espoma raised bed mix is 29.50 for 1.5 CFT. I can get an Organic Garden mix from a local company which is 38 bucks for a cubic yard , it’s a 50 50 mix of screened topsoil and screened organic leaf compost. I have 5 , 4x8 beds to fill which are 15 inches deep, I am using your method and grabbing branches etc and filling the bottom half, thanks for the info

Great video, I do the same kind of things with my raised beds, it's so brilliant. The only things that bother me more and more these days are those plastic bags that the soil comes in... They end up in land fill ie buried in the earth or being burned in Malaysia.. I dump so many plastic bags, I really want other options..

@johnlee7085

Жыл бұрын

Check out bulk soil suppliers in your area. I get 18 of those 1.5 cubic foot bags worth for $30-$50. I’ve even seen people without a trailer have it dumped on a tar and shoveled into plastic totes to go in the back of and suv. Home Depot and others also rent pickups cheap.

@judyjohnson2892

Жыл бұрын

The plastic bags can become liners in cardboard boxes to create mini raised beds.

5:12 LOL no sir I saw that very clearly 😂😂

Working on building a large garden for next growing season. Had a taste in my 1 raised bed but lacked the space until now. Have a 4x8 foot bed, 3x8, and four 3x6. Filled with layer of cardboard, twigs, other paper things, yard waste, leaves, and mixed horse manure compost. Will mulch with leaves and more cardboard for winter! So excited to grow.

Love Mark's channel, Love your channel! Thank you!

Use dry logs and sticks then wood chips then dirt on top

You can turn upside down plastic flower pots to take up space.

@jeepwran

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, done this in large containers for flowering annuals

@Iloathsnow

4 жыл бұрын

It is slightly missing the point. This is the long term solution. The organic matter and cardboard turn into soil and useful fungi and earthworms love it. A cheap way to grow your own soil while growing crops.

@lisakukla459

4 жыл бұрын

@@Iloathsnow That's true, but I don't see any reason why someone couldn't do both things at once.

@adenbuford7396

4 жыл бұрын

Many plastics degrade over time and can leach toxic chemical into your soil. Consider clay pots?

@heikesiegl2640

4 жыл бұрын

@@adenbuford7396 clay ia great! I always put clayshards in my pots and claypots in biggee cobtainers. Great for distributing water

THANK YOU!!! You posted this at the perfect time!

@epicgardening

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@katiedid60

4 жыл бұрын

Epic Gardening absolutely!! I’ve been binging your videos all week!

Something about the spelling of compost into comPOOst at 3:05 nearly made me spit my coffee out laughing. Thank you Kevin. For everything you do for us LOL much love