Folks make sure to view the video at the end and share this with your gardening friends to save them money filling raised beds.

@jenniferquezada6132

9 ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for your videos! Can we use eucalyptus logs and chips??

@skai500

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. Raised beds are the only option where I live. I have plenty of land but the ground is more rocks than soil so in-ground planting is not an option.

Nice on Tony. Really lovely to see a Hugelkulter bed in a more practical/realistic way like this. Very inspiring. :-)

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben. I thought a step by step would be a good way to show it. Hope will help folks save money when filling them

I don't know how you got into my KZread feed but I'm so, so grateful that you did! This information is golden!

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed it. :)

Hoping to use this method soon Tony. Made a lot of notes from this video! Thanks for this 👏🏽 Rach 👩🏼‍🌾🌱

I will try this method with a new bed I'm building this season! Another great video Tony. Easy to see just how much work and effort you put into your content!

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Shaun. I appreciate that and hopefully you will save a fortune filling your raised beds

Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏

This is how i do my raised bed. i love the hugelkultur technique for water retention.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video for a very effective raised bed method. Highly recommend. Keep the videos coming!

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

We love our 2 beds we build in this method. Stacking functions at it best. Definitely promotes fungal growth as well. Cheers Tony 🌱

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and fungal perfect for beds

@xxxvalkyriex85

Жыл бұрын

@@simplifygardening does this work with elevated beds that are entirely above the ground

Hi Tony, great video with lotsvof info on how & what to use to fill raised beds. I have bought your compost book & just bought a wooden raised bed to start my own compost with guidance from your book. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome Christine Im sure you will have loads of quality compost in no time

NATURES WAY NEVER WRONG

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

We love our 2 beds we build in this method. Stacking functions at it best. Definitely promotes fungal growth as well. Cheers Tony

@simplifygardening

4 ай бұрын

Yeah it does make superior soil over the years

Such and amazing way, you make it look so easy.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Erica. It doesn't need to be hard if you take the time to collect everything first

Thanks Tony, good way of tidying up my plot too x.

@simplifygardening

4 ай бұрын

You bet it is lol

We’re setting up some raised beds for a local non-profit. I love the tips, especially since everything we are doing is on a tight budget. Thank you for doing such great work!

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s great good luck with it and let me know how it goes

Another great video, mate. I do this with all of my raised beds.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott. Hopefully it will do well, it was a lot of work

Thank you 🙏

Too informative.

Been using this technique for years- every new bed. Easy in every way. Rotted wood is thee slow release fertilizer. Non-conifers are best.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Great tip! and I always tell fols stay away from pine and conifer

Morning Tony, Great and informative video. I built seven raised beds over the winter. My greatest worry was how on earth was I going to fill them. Luckily, one of my sons is a tree surgeon. He delivered a flatbed load of wood chips for free. I filled each bed halfway with this material and then topped each one with a mixture of compost and manure. It was backbreaking work, but it's done. I guess I won't know until later in the year if it was worth all the hard work... but I have everything crossed!!!! All the best, Annie 🐞🐝🌱

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

A great way to do it and it will break down and hold moisture

@EB321

10 ай бұрын

How'd it work?

I do this with pretty much all my containers and raised beds. It makes such a difference.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Saves so much money on compost

@BloosSelfReliance

Жыл бұрын

@@simplifygardening absolutely it does

I use cotton burr, rice hauls,and organic peet moss. Raised beds are concrete blocks two high bought as seconds for a better cost. It’s a no til garden and back saving since I’m seventy six. have used rotten chunks of logs also along with two year old leaves. thanks for your videos!!!

@simplifygardening

10 ай бұрын

All great fills for raised beds

Great Efforts! How about mixing Straw with Composted manure?

Thanks for this. It’s come at a really helpful time. I’ve just got a allotment plot and due to disability raised bed is the sensible option however filling the beds has been causing me no end of headaches. This has given me some ideas to get going with.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

So glad it’s been helpful to you. Hopefully you get them filled

@felicitywoodruffe4087

Жыл бұрын

My local churchyard has a large number of trees and bits of their limbs break off and fall in the churchyard and sometimes on graves .our local church is happy for us to go round collecting up these fallen branches as it helps them maintain the grounds

As someone who filled the bottom half of my raised beds with large chunks of wood I kinda feels obligated to warn of termites. Both of my beds became infested with termites, and while neither bed had its crop damaged by the termites there was a period where I became concerned as termite damage to homes is common in my area.

@SchrodingersBs

8 ай бұрын

I control mine with nematodes. They help control other insects in the beds as well, but don't overwhelm them. I spray them around my home (termite damage under previous owners) & in the wood chip piles once a year & everything's breaking down just fine. It's usually the large, black beetles that are breaking down the wood rather than termites. I've been doing that for 10 years with no problems (southern US), but as usual, YMMV.

@GainingDespair

8 ай бұрын

@@SchrodingersBs Southern US as well, Mississippi however nematodes are invasive here as they are known for eating the roots of citrus trees which we have a few of.

deep beds are a brilliant idea, tony. i've already started to add them to my garden. no more pots on the lawn that i can't reach when it rains.................brian

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

And easier as I get older

@briansgardenandpolytunnel8172

Жыл бұрын

@@simplifygardening wait til you get to my age. lol...............brian

Hello. Thank you very much for this detailed video. I found it very useful. My problem is with my spring onions. Something strange has happened on its leaves for the last week. Once, the shapes of the leaves changed. Then many of them had their roots broken. What do you recommend I can get from England urgently. Thank you in advance.

Some cities such as my own give away compost. Just drive up to the Eco Centre and shovel it into buckets. It's wonderful stuff for those of us with urban gardens.

@simplifygardening

8 ай бұрын

Wow! thats very lucky and a great resource to have. everything is charged for here

Excellent, informative video Tony! I have been planning on purchasing one of these metal raised beds and have watched a few videos about the Hugelkultur method. This will be my go to reminder of what I need to collect and how to put it together. What would you recommend planting for the first year or so? I'm thinking that the whole thing needs to settle in for a while before trying carrots.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

If you put a good layer of cow manure you can pretty much grow anything except roots

Great video. Never tried this method. I want to make my beds bigger so might follow this

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

You should it will save you a fortune

Hi, I'm new at gardening. After the beds are full, and a few grow seasons have passed at any point do you have empty and refill the garden bed or just keep topping it up as it settles? Great videos mate, thanks from New Zealand

@simplifygardening

9 ай бұрын

Never have to empty just top off yearly as the materials break down

Can horse manure, broken down work instead of cow manure ? Robin in western Kansas…

hi i am a newbie to this just set up two raised beds using pallet collars not much space can i use some top soil in the mix or is it best not to thanks

@simplifygardening

3 ай бұрын

Yes you can use topsoil infact it will help speed up the microbial life process

I'd love to grow my own veg I spend prob £40 a week on it lol so would save me money too . Do gardening for a liveing alot of machines . Watching you looks relaxing can tell you enjoy it Abit random but the mckenzie jumper your wearing while your talking .....is that a recent buy or old? Only ask as if its recent and still ik thr shops to buy iam gona go grab some Cheers mate

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty new but was a gift I’d have to ask where from

Love your accent. Where from??

@simplifygardening

7 ай бұрын

South Wales UK

Do you cover the ground with some kind of mesh to avoid somentype of rodents from entering the raised bed? I use similar method to fill. Only my chickens have different bedding materials. It works very well.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

There is much need here only moles and rats to worry about but with the logs they won’t get innit

Can I use dead, fallen palm fronds? I don't have much of the other materials you used at my disposal here in the desert

@simplifygardening

10 ай бұрын

Yes you can. anything that used to live and is now dead can be used

Can I use trunks and cuttings from leylandii trees as the base for my raised beds? Will they cause the soil to be too acidic when they break down?

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't recommend it

So I don't need to let the chicken manure age before adding to the bottom of my raised bed? We too use the deep litter method with hay. 🤔 Also curious, does the bed heat up at all from all the carbon and nitrogen like a compost pile does? Thank you for your great video as always. 😊

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

Yes it will warm slightly but not to the temps of compost

What about the clippings (inc spiky branches) from my garden hedge?

@simplifygardening

10 ай бұрын

Yes can all go in the lower third

@pootle5096

10 ай бұрын

@@simplifygardening Thank You for the kind reply :-)

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Hi Tony, can I used old compost (bought in bags) instead of poultry bedding ? Would adding chicken manure pellets be and advantage ? Thank you…

@simplifygardening

3 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely you can

@avetoot

3 ай бұрын

Great thanks :)

Hi Tony, I’m just starting to fill may beds using this method and following your lead. I’ve lined the wooden raised beds with white n black plastic, leaving some of the plastic on the ground with about 18” sq. hole. Underneath there is about 4” gravel underneath which there is a semi permeable membrane (to keep the weeds back). - could u advise how to get best results in this situation. ? I notice you said to cut away all membrane. Also note that the only logs I could get are not quite rotten yet, is this ok? Thank you in advance.

@simplifygardening

3 ай бұрын

If you have gravel and a membrane under it I wouldnt worry too much and just allow it t stand above that. it will be fine and worms and soil life can be added tot he bed and allow to breed in the bed instead

@avetoot

3 ай бұрын

@@simplifygardening thank you Tony, that’s what I was hoping to hear - it’s the way we’re we’re heading with it before I felt the need to check with u , just in case it was a big no no.

@avetoot

3 ай бұрын

I have some rotting branch with green and white mould in them - is it a yes or no for the raised beds ? I’m filling the. as I write this - in between the lovely Welsh rain!

@simplifygardening

2 ай бұрын

you can use it its fine

I have logs but they have holes from some infestation. I think a beetle. Can I use them still?

@simplifygardening

8 ай бұрын

Yes you can still use them

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What can I do filling my newly made raised garden beds? I don't have rotting logs or compost currently?

@simplifygardening

4 ай бұрын

Go and collect them if possible nearest road side will have them and compost if you have not made it then it will need to be bought in

@baboneya

4 ай бұрын

@simplifygardening thank you for prompt responses

@baboneya

4 ай бұрын

@@simplifygardening is this a suitable way "Hügelkulture" to develop raised vege beds for all types of vegetable growing (leafy, root (onion, carrot, beet, potato), tomato, zucchini, cucumber, squash, bean, herbs)?

Hey Tony, the cow manure should be composted or fresh is fine too?

@simplifygardening

10 ай бұрын

Composted is better if your growing in it

You mentioned garden trimmings. Can one use cuttings from a privet hedge?

@simplifygardening

11 ай бұрын

Yes you can!

@radmeditation5355

11 ай бұрын

@@simplifygardening Thank you! [S/one told me they were poisonous and never to be put in compost heap!]

Hi. The IBC were black, or did you paint them? Thank you.

@simplifygardening

Жыл бұрын

I have black and white but they are bought that way

@mariadi1069

Жыл бұрын

You don't have problem with algae on the white one? Thank you.

Sadly those Birdy beds can't be bought in the UK anymore. It looks like they've closed their outlet. Back to the drawing board.

@simplifygardening

9 ай бұрын

They are relocating it at a later stage. but I might be bringing them back next year so stay tuned

I filled mine with wood but I put the wood in length was😢 oops noq I have to reinforce the walls Collected for two years

My beds are now overrun with cucumber Beetles, now what?

You're missing actual soil (sand, silt & clay.) I never build a raised bed without 12 in of actual soil. If you want to foster soil life & bed longevity, you need soil. Compost is not soil. The actual soil layer should be located directly below your top finished compost layer.

@theborderer1302

10 ай бұрын

You're so right. Soil is the source of mycorrhizal fungi that promotes strong, healthy plants. It won't exist (at least in any quantity) in any of the ingredients Tony has recommended. His video is otherwise excellent though.

I've done several beds with this method & I like to water in the chicken compost layer into the log layer to fill as many gaps as possible. I've got wood chips piled up around the outer edges to soak up run off from that & they'll be raked up & dumped into the compost pile a couple days later.

@simplifygardening

8 ай бұрын

Great tip! Its such a good way to fill them

Good for short term crops. Long term It promotes root rot. Where in nature do you find ground chopped up trees in the soil? This is not natures way.

Uffff, you killed me with that colorful cardboard. You really don't care about having a healthy soil

Birdies aren't available at that link Tony @simplifygardening. This is what I eventually got from them. "Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to make the decision to close our shop in the UK." If you find another supplier please add a link in here. I've been after these for years. Thanks for all the great videos. Ve

@simplifygardening

10 ай бұрын

The sale finished and they are moving so maybe some time. are you in usa or uk? if USA i have a new link