Jun
03
2009
no dig garden
Posted by greenthumb in Gardening Videos, tags: dig, garden, gardening, growing, horticulture, no, produce
filling the garden bed that cost me .30 to build
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No matter what your location, no dig vegetable gardens are a great option for you, especially for first time gardeners!
mmmmm… junk farmer. Rusty Nail vegies.
I love rusty potatoes!!!!!!!!!
i think because to get no grass i tryed to do it off the ground to not get grass but it didnt work so no we have a 50 by 100 fton the ground cause above ground gardens dont work relly good from my prespection
Is that Murray from flight of the conchords?
millimeter. he’s Aussie and on the metric system.
I live in U.S. and we dont say mil and such. What does mil mean in U.S.?
ok i think what i did wrong was that I didn’t use enough layers of newspaper or enough compost/soil etc
thanks
Yup, right in the back yard, but I put newspapers down first to kill the grass underneath( overlapped about 10-15 sheets thick.)
do you do this on an already established lawn, like in a back yard? I tried something similar in my back yard and now i have grass growing in my compost that is supposed to be my garden bed!
I think it’s because he’s on a hill. I may be wrong.
Why do you suspend your bed off the ground? Dont you want some contact for the earthworms and other critters to find a home in there
Hi, this is very similar to my method of a no dig garden, I call it it a compost garden. I lay down a layer of 10-15 sheets of newspaper then make a border using larger rocks. I fill it with grass clippings leaves and top it off with a little peatmoss. I then transplant perennials in the fall and by the following spring I have a thick full flowerbed.
It looks good. Try cutting a slot end to end on some 1 inch PVC, then place over the edges of your corrugated. Good luck with the ash trees!
hehe..I thought he said ‘ashtray’ too. Yes, I’m obviously american.
I was thinking that this is actually more of a compost bin than something ready for planting. It was mentioned that some garden soil is thrown on top, but otherwise a lot of this stuff needs to break down first I would think.
LOL, I thought said ashtray at first.
ash tree
Amazing! I’ve been looking to build a raised bed and I got all that same junk/materials laying around, including a wirey mattress. Thanks for the excellent idea! WOW!
the edges are so blunt, you’d have to rub your hand up and down it for a while to get a cut.
Great idea I like it, really well done!
That exposed sharp steel edge along the top makes me cringe though. A suggestion would be to get an old garden hose and run a sharp knife along the length and then push it down onto the top edge of your garden bed, will make it safer for you and your visitors
hi karstarla, you can plant straight away. some people wait for a few months and turn it over but i go straight in and it works well!
Thank you for your video, you have relieved so much worry for me, I’m just learning to grow my own food (for this upcoming year) because I have arthritis of the spine I cannot plant into the ground, I need raised beds so I can participate. I was dreading the cost of filling a raised bed with top soil, I had no idea you could do this, this makes it much more economical and reachable for me, may I ask if I did the same if I could immeddiately plant directly into something like that? or must I wait
Yeah, I wold assume that the water needs to go through. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been mentioned that the weed net will let water pass through.
Anyways, great videos.
I just made a raised bed of my own today which your videos inspired me to make. I should have made a video. Hmm; I’ll make a video later when I plant some veg into it.
Keep up the good work!
thanks for posting
i love your videos – please keep making them.