Enclosed Walk In Garden with Raised Beds

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[gabrielmills]

Protip: grow honeysuckle vines on your walls of the garden to encourage pollinators and to have sweet little treats in your garden. Bees love honeysuckle and it smells amazing.

[brisay]

You are awesome!!! I have so many dreams that were tabled after my husband of 23 years left me and our 14 year old. The fact that I am a 55 year old female with no skills at all, had left me feeling vulnerable and incapable. I want you to know, your enthusiasm, ingenuity, and skillful talents, which you kindly share, are inspiring and you fill me with hope that I too can accomplish many of the tasks that you are teaching. I hope you know you are making a difference as I see your accomplishments and I really needed to see someone whose independent nature and ingenuity could tackle big projects. Thank you so Much.

[tarapitchford]

I absolutely love this enclosed raised bed garden! I especially love that it can be moved, expanded or made smaller! This build is brilliant and magical all in one! It would be awesome to see it at full swing and full of green lush plants!

[clydecox]

Crazy thing is, I never knew that enclosed garden envy was even a thing...

[michaelbarrett]

My wife just said, “i want her to be my best friend...” you are ridiculously talented!

[peace]

I have deer and rabbit problem . Wish I had seen this 20 years ago! What a fantastic idea and project. You are one talented lady.

[TheGardenerNorth]

Literally the best raised beds I've seen. I would never of thought about using metal roofing material but it makes the most sense. It will reduce rot on the wood base and make the unit much lighter if needed to move. Only one thing is I'm pretty sure deer are going to jump that when their hungry.

[KWJester]

I feel like slowly April is just teaching us how to be self sufficient and live off the grid. Cool video as always, would love to have an update once stuff starts growing.

[MS-tiub]

Wow, I do many projects around the house and looking for a raised garden for my backyard I came across your video. My mouth is still open... and I don't get impressed so easily... YOu are intelligent, creative, a truly go-getter young woman!!! You got yourself a new subscriber!!!

[ipatchee]

Thanks April,
Patrick from north Idaho where the “deer and the antelope” eat everything...including rhubarb! Several features I loved about your project: 1) high walls and screened for animal prevention, 2) properly treated lumber so durability with no toxins into the food, 3) connectable pieces so that you can expand, change configuration and shrink as needed. Finally I realized that with just a few modifications I could enclose the whole system with a bit of full spectrum corrugated sun panels and actually re-purpose the garden idea to a fully functional green house. You are an amazing builder...and I have to say...very covetous shop!!! Thanks from your garden fans!

[whitewolf]

Beautiful work! I did learn back in the 80's when I lived in Montana why ranchers had 15' to 20' tall fences around their feed storage yards because of the deer that can jump over 10' fences. I was in shock when I heard this.

[mshawnmhulett]

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something incredible. Your and husband our truly awesome this is what my wife and I are going to build in our field. At the end of our field we have a cold spring that runs year around . This build will be perfect for us. Thank you

[MrBrianDuga]

Wow nice I'm jealous. When building my raised beds with PT, I struggled with the fact that none of the PT was the same width. Not fun to rip this stuff on a lower powered TS. Perhaps Lowes is better than Home Depot in that regard. Each bed is the height of a seat so I can sit while weeding. I opted to have the bottom be the earth itself and put wire mesh on the bottom to keep burrowing critters from coming up from below. This also works well to allow earth worms to enter and leave as they'd like. In each garden, I partially bury a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in it for my red wiggler worms. Dinner veg scraps, offcuts, and weeds go in there with layers of shreddings of paper bags or cardboard for bedding. Every spring I get an amazing "harvest" of worm castings to use in plantings. The worms aerate the soil around the tower. I also lined the inside of the bed with aquaponics plastic and wonder if that trapped heat and moisture. I think if I did it again, I'd try using a 1/4" drainage board material (like for siding rainscreen walls) and a layer of landscape fabric to separate it from the soil. The concept is similar to those fabric pots people love that causes the air pruning of roots. Good luck looks amazing. I desperately need fencing for the family of groundhogs living under my shed who eat for free.

[servicedoglydia]

This would make amazing "accessible" gardening for seniors/disabled as long as you keep enough space under for wheelchair access.
Love this concept! Thanks for sharing.

[sheepdog]

April when stretching the fencing, sandwich the wire between 2x4s then apply tension by attaching chain, rope, cable etc. and pulling with your tractor, a come-along, block and tackle attached to an anchor point, etc. it puts consistent tension on the fencing top to bottom and frees up your hands.

[verbotn]

When I build my 12' x 22' C-shaped raised-bed garden I was not only concerned with the potential of whatever the pressure-treatment chemicals might do, but also the wood being wet all of the time. My solution was to line them with Delta MS foundation wrap to keep the wood from direct soil contact but also to allow airflow around the lumber.

[kaylab]

“Everybody else is saying I went overboard. I think it’s fine.” 😂 that’s all that matters. Btw I think it’s awesome!

[paladin]

That's an amazing setup. I can only imagine what the wood alone would cost.

[MathijsKok]

April, in my experience the staples you use to keep the plastic in place rust out in 23 minutes and leave two fine holes that create nice circular bits of rotted wood. Most of the time you do not really need them and when you do a dab of adhesive (one that does not eat the plastic) is better.

[Kavouraki_]

This is such a beautiful project and video. Music, talkthrough, everything is just perfect.

Will you keep updating how the garden goes? Id love to see the progression of plants growing, the raspberry plants and such. Beautiful