Stop WASTING MONEY Filling Raised Beds! Fill Them Like This.

In this video, I share how to fill raised garden beds with the best garden soil mix for as cheaply as possible. Gardeners spend way too much money filling raised garden beds with expensive, pre-bagged mixes and unnecessary additives like peat moss, coco coir, perlite, and vermiculite, but that is a mistake. Stop wasting money filling raised beds! Fill them like this.

This method of filling a raised bed can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars depending on the size of your garden. Don't pay high prices for soil at big box stores!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Container Garden VS Raised Bed Garden
2:34 The True Purpose Of Raised Garden Beds
4:29 Why Potting Soil Is Wrong For Raised Beds
5:27 Detailed Soil Cost Analysis
10:48 How To Dramatically Reduce Soil Cost
13:21 How To Fill A Deep Raised Bed
14:46 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to fill a raised garden bed, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching😊TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Container Garden VS Raised Bed Garden
2:34 The True Purpose Of Raised Garden Beds
4:29 Why Potting Soil Is Wrong For Raised Beds
5:27 Detailed Soil Cost Analysis
10:48 How To Dramatically Reduce Soil Cost
13:21 How To Fill A Deep Raised Bed
14:46 Adventures With Dale

[dontcarejustwatchvid]

Your whole channel and persona makes so much more sense when you state that you are an engineer by trade. Great attention to detail! Peace.

[katcruz]

My dad is so proud of all of the hard work that I've put into my container gardening that he wants to make me 2 raised beds 🥲 I'm 26...he's 47 and has been having heart problems lately I love him so much and I hope we have lots of time to grow tomatoes and strawberries together ❤

[shirleysuchdolski]

I lucked out and got peat moss for 4.99 at Tractor Supply. They were leftover from last year. Regularly $14.99

[terrinegron]

Thanks for mentioning the Hugelkultur method. I used that method on my deep raised beds and 3 years later the whole deep bed was full of incredible rich soil to grow my veggies.

[Planzman]

If I might add: I got this info from Scott and Helen Nearings’ book, go to the gravel yard with a bucket and get some gravel dust ( I think it’s called M10) and put a couple cups in each new bed and mix well. Adds necessary source of minerals that plants can get and last a long long time. Enjoy your videos. Cheers.

[mpsorrentino]

I think it's fair to note that sometimes raised beds are being used for plants with particular needs such as Blueberries with their acidity requirements so topsoil and compost alone aren't going to be enough at the end of the day it really comes down to what you're trying to grow and where you're trying to grow it.

[batkat]

Started my first raised beds this year. They're 32" tall and i was so glad i saved the wood from an old tree that had to come down 8 years ago. Well aged and it took up so much space and saved me a ton of money.

[Scott-jfnh]

I live 30 miles North of Atlanta, GA. I have Georgia red clay with about 5 inches of good top soil. This is my 3rd season growing mostly tomatoes. I have built 9 raised beds 7 are 4 x8’ and 2 are slightly smaller for blueberries and melons. This year I am using all the things I have learned so far. Soil is expensive but I need less as time goes by. I collect oak leaves and grass cutting which I mix in. Also my property has a burn pile And I used a bunch of charred wood and ashes in one bed. This year I used a roto tiller and am very concerned with Ph and rain water for irrigation. I set up my rain barrel last week. My plants really respond to rain water so much better than tap or even drinking water. I made a grow box inside last year and my seedling are ready to go. They have been growing well since 2/14. Planting Friday after last morning in the high 30s ( I hope). I dug up and threw out several big oak logs from season one. They were too big and had not really broken down except the bark. Enjoy your great videos-Thank you!

[sandrahawkins]

FYI...I live in upstate SC. Tractor Supply always has the best prices for peat. Right now it is $14.99.
Love your channel. I have been gardening all my life. I learned from my dad. I am now 67.
Never too old to learn. Thank you!!

[EducatedSkeptic]

As someone in his mid-70s, I'd like to point out that WE have raised beds so we don't have to bend over so far to weed and care for them! They also help us to limit the spread of crops (e.g., sunchokes and asparagus) that otherwise might tend to spread in an uncontrolled manner. VERY MUCH appreciate your excellent suggestions regarding the proper blend with which to fill the raised beds. Used to get great free filler - mixed horse manure with pine shavings, which we composted for a year first - but the horses died. Have been mixing soil from elsewhere in the garden with either commercial compost or composted steer manure, which has done great for us. Had a great harvest last year particularly of red potatoes - one of which was 8" long and weighed 24 ounces! It's also been great for both the asparagus and the garlic (which we plant in the fall). We've been doing in part what you're describing, but will be "tweaking" our methodology to what you've suggested! Thanks so much again for some excellent ideas!

[eggsinhell]

All so well said. Just one thing to add: not all compost and soil mixes from local landscapers are created equal in terms of their ability to supply nutrients. A few years back some friends of mine compared the same plants grown in different local mixes and were astonished to see that the compost supplied by our city’s most beloved “green” supplier actually performed the worst, and by a large margin.

[DeniseLSessler]

We started out with the SFG method so we made 'Mel's Mix' - equal parts peat, compost and vermiculite. We have learned to fill some of the deeper beds with some limbs and shredded leaves, then add 'Mel's Mix' for most of the bed.

[MichaelRei]

This video opened my eyes. I know about cheap raised bed mix . Lowes sells organic bed fill that is absolute garbage! The Home Depot by me sells a much better mix. But if I can save money using your advice I’d be stupid not to! Thank you for the well timed video!

[bevkelly]

I fill my beds halfway with shredded cardboard it rots down over time and worms love. I give them cardboard they give me castings. It’s a win win. 👍🏻

[barbaralewis]

"Things are going to be cheaper later..[in years..]...I had to go back & relisten to your presenting ! Very good! Very true!

[dinobravo]

I always fill my raised beds with a 50/50 topsoil and compost mix. Been doing that forever. I also add new compost to the boxes yearly. I built mine 6'x12'x10".

[gerhardk]

We bought 6 yards of topsoil last year I made a mixture of topsoil, peat and sheep manure. We were pleased with our first year’s crop and I was really happy with how easy it was to work the soil this spring. Before we planted this year I added sheep manure to the beds and the warm spring had me sow some lettuce and radishes first part of April and it is growing nicely.

[cn]

You are an excellent gardener and a great presenter. Logical and to the point. Great job! Thanks so much. I pass your content on !❤

[jo-annjewett]

In the beginning I spent a small fortune filling my container beds/pots. I now follow your garbage can method for composting. I topped dressed most beds with this compost. I don’t have any of those reasons to have raised beds, except space. I should have filled them with soil but I didn’t. I wish I had because year #1 didn’t do great. However all the organic additives I added have now broken down and the soil is so much better. Mind you a few beds we filled the bottom with logs and brush. Going forward I am doing your method.