Raised Garden Beds Built Right the First Time

Raised Garden Beds Built Right the First Time is what I should have done when I built the garden. Better late than never and these new garden beds are built to last. Welcome to our garden.

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[ZippedUpKitz]

Good Morning Chad! Hope you have a wonderful day… at the end of your growing season, after you’ve removed all of your vegetation, cover your beds with cardboard and that same ground cloth… that will prevent the weeds from coming up and the cardboard is biodegradable and can be turned into your soil for the next growing season… in the spring when it’s time to plant again, just roll up the ground cloth and save it for the fall when it’s time to put the beds to "bed." It will save you a TON of work next spring!

[Scot_WestTexas]

Soooo much fun. Water Fowl, cats (hi Dexter 🥰) chickens, bunnies, dogs, pigs, garden, crows, hawks, apple trees. Lots of hard work but will all be worth it when your daughter shows up. Enjoy the moment 👍🥰🥰🥰

[stardustbella]

I think my favorite part of every video you produce is Love him!!

[lararabb]

When you put your bed to rest in the fall. Do your prep work then. Pull all veggie matter & weeds. Top with compost or for you maybe a thick layer or chopped leaves & a good sprinkel of rabbit manure. Water in well and cover with a good layer of weed cloth. Make sure it stays down well all winter. In spring remove weed cloth, fluff up the soil adding more soil if needed and you should be weedfree & ready to go. During the growing season mulch well and weed often! Dont let anything take root!

[BlueTansey]

Hi Chad! Regarding the weeds: Lots of good suggestions here in the comments about mulch, etc. What local wineries do here in the SF Bay area is rent the local flock of miniature sheep to graze the weeds between the vines. I don’t know why they don’t eat the vines (maybe because the vines are vertical and the sheep are just interested in what’s horizontal), but they don’t.
Maybe time to expand your farm a little with some miniature sheep and just set them grazing wherever there’s weeds you don’t want. Or maybe there’s already a flock locally that you can rent.
Love getting to see your progress toward Spring. Thanks so much for sharing.

[kaitlyn]

Fozzy bear doesn’t like going to far from papa!!!❤

[deb]

Lazy gardener here…the only way to eliminate constant weeding is with mulching or weed barriers. Landscape weed barriers work well with large plants like tomatoes, peppers, squash, etc. But for plants in rows or potatoe beds, you are going to have to use some form of organic mulch that doesn’t have any weed seeds itself. Ask at your local garden center for suggestions in your climate. But the easy way to kill weeds on a large area is to lay a large heavy duty tarp or silage cover over an area and let it “cook” the weeds dead. This method can take months however. So your current potatoe beds, you should rototill, rake out the weeds clumps, and start from scratch with mulch between the potatoe rows. You can even use cardboard or paper bags. Hope this helps. Love the cats helping with the construction!!!

[bobbipearcey]

🤦‍♀️🥵…I swear you guys must have elves or hostages HIDING inside your house …because I don’t know how you guys have time to SLEEP “or” EAT with ALL THAT YOU DO 😂
I find there are not enough hours in the day (especially) in SPRING to do all I have to do .. and I only grow things in GROW BAGS … 🤦‍♀️
I don’t know WHAT it is …but I have a CONSTANT SMILE on my face when I am watching your videos … VERY UPLIFTING CHANNEL for the SOUL ♥️💕♥️💕♥️

[lindam]

I agree with using cardboard. After harvesting my father would cover with newspaper then put cardboard on top. You have lots of wood to throw on top to keep from blowing away. My dad was disabled and couldn't weed much so he had to find ways. Plus newspaper and cardboard was safe.

[Sakratic]

There's plenty of good resources on YouTube - as I was watching your video I was searching and quickly found some decent informative techniques and tips for potatoes. Anyways I love watching all the animals on the farm!! Shows how much you care for them all, as I'm sure it takes some time to film them all (you got some great footage of the wildlife on this video alone)

[debbiewhite]

Multiple layers of cardboard covered with compost and deeply mulched. Smothers weeds and you can plant your potatoes in the compost on top of the cardboard. By next year the cardboard will be broken down. You can also cover your raised beds with cardboard and mulch to overwinter, again smothering any potential weeds from sprouting.

Suggest watching YouTuber, Ann of All Trades, and her "lazy garden" videos. She's got being a la, y gardener down to an art! 😉

[suzannemartin]

I cover my beds w a mulch w fall leaves and cardboard and black plastic. You can use straw too, i didn’t want to buy materials. I used pine needles too. I used garbage bags cut open and laid those on the beds. Weighed those down w medium sized sticks or logs. I uncovered them before planting, removed all that didn’t decompose over winter and add a bit of compost to each bed. No weeds here 😊

[suzannealden]

I also have raised beds that I mulch with pine shavings during the growing season. Very cost effective, and a bale goes a long way and settles down once rained on, resulting in very few weeds, if any. This spring my beds also got covered in weeds. Next year, I plan to cover the beds over with plastic temporarily in the very early spring until I can get out to turn the soil and plant to avoid the spring weed problem. Love your channel!

[stanleykeith]

Chad, just think when you get the saw mill up and running, you will have so much wood to work with. Can't wait to see it running !!! Chad, I see you are using LePage glue, my wife worked for them outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. in the office before they moved North ! They make alot of Good stuff, good glue.

[enricami]

Hello. Deep mulch is my key to weed reduction. Be careful of herbicides that may have been used on the straw. To be safe i'll buy bales of straw this year for next years garden mulch. The chemical has a degrading half life. Time eliminates any negative effects of potential herbicides. Good luck internet friend

[Wanda-gz]

Plant potatoes mulch with wheat straw, and keep deep straw in winter on this bed.

[leonafaryna]

Thank goodness you had Fozzy helping you get the fabric down! The beautiful sounds of the water flowing surely enhances the gardening experience. Your Darlin is going to be so happy with the new planters and I can hardly wait to see what the new vegetables look like! You guys work so hard to make and keep everything looking so green and luscious! All the farm animals look so happy and healthy and it’s wonderful that you do the updates on them! 😊🐾🥰

[billgrover]

Your beds for potato are so little. And you grow it so carefully. It's so wise unlike my family's approach. They always plant a lot of them without any geotextyle. And dig out weeds manually several times a year. And finally in the spring they throw away 30% of potato. And so it's every year.

[deb]

Second comment is about at the end of the harvest season when you are putting your garden “to bed”. As others have suggested, cover the raised beds with cardboard or other biodegradable paper product and lightly cover with compost. The cardboard will break down and there will be no weeds to start the season with minimal tillage needed.

[janetclark]

I luv Fozzy too and all the other cats, dogs, ducks, pigs, all the animals. lol Nice garden. Until the next time, have a great day.