How We Fill Our Raised Beds

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[Ms.Kelani]

Aww, I love that you guys are supporting Kevin, he’s such a vital asset to the gardening/sustainability community. 💚

[topspeedk]

The biomass in the inside container turns to charcoal because it's not exposed to oxygen so it cant burn.The protection from open flame is not the reason.
The water and other volatile substances are cooked off, leavung carbon.
It's best to close the container except for a small hole for gases to escape.

[hirogardenlighter]

I prefer woodchips to fill the bottom of my garden beds. I feel they do a bit better if I ever have to move the beds and breakdown differently than whole logs

[mitchelpohl]

Need a little native soil in with the logs. Help the worms to enter and all that organic matter your beds will be dropping many inches as it breaks down. Don’t be scared to use native soil and not just compost

[ItsJustEliHere]

I use my old turtle tank water as fertilizer.

[sydberetta]

Lol definitely free once you have the infrastructure

[hachmejo]

Logs suck out a ton of nitrogen. Good mixture. But the logs on the bottom have been known to cause nitrogen fixing issues

[ghwtzin]

Where I live it'd be harder and more expensive to fill with old logs than it would with soil. This idea is great just not ideal for my location. Trees are scarce in this desert landscape

[Tyhond]

This is really informative, i learnt so much from this :D

[CaptainPupu]

Its called Hügelkultur, and it has been used in germany and europe for thousands of years.

[arialblack]

"Unique" is an overstatement

[RealStickyNicky]

I have raised garden beds at home. Do you think it would beneficial to dump my grass clippings on top for mulching/nutrients? Or will that much grass throw off the soil balance?

[jobiden]

You gotta keep feeding nitrogen (grass clippings, vegetable kitchen scraps, Manure) otherwise the carbon will rob nitrogen from your plants and they will do poorly.

Also, Logs take YEARS to breakdown. Even decades. I would fill with twigs no more than 2" thick..
Happy gardening.

[silver-fdcv]

I never knew how charcoal was made.
Thank you !!❤

[mechanikhil]

Hey guys, I live in Ontario Canada and I want set up my raised bed garden but it snows here pretty often. Do i continue with your plan of filling it up with brown material?

[sumakwelvictoria]

Would the inner drum be more efficient and hotter if the bottom and sides was lined with a thin layer of clay?

Clay disperses heat farther with infrared rays.

[atownatd]

Love the video but what is the music that is playing in the background

[MikeTrieu]

Seems kind of a waste to even let the fuel in the biochar kiln turn to ash when, with a simple modification, you could turn that barrel into a retort and also pyrolyze the fuel into additional biochar.

[jteach]

What plant r you planting? Many plants need more than 10 inches

[none]

I like your soundtrack bros what's the title track?

Cheers