diy Planter Box: Raised Bed Gardening Tips
Tips, Tricks
http://beckyshomestead.com/diy-planter-box/ Becky uses scrap wood from around the homestead to build raised bed garden boxes. These garden boxes are going to be in the shade so they’ll make good summer gardens. When you make a garden box make sure it’s not too wide. I make mine just wide enough so I can reach half way across from each side. Becky also talks about her compost pile. Becky's Amazon Link: http://goo.gl/Y9Vgmj
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I like that you left enough room in between the beds to get a lawnmower in between them. Many people try to get them too close together, and then find that they have to fight to keep the grass cut between them. One thing that I would have suggested, and you can still do, is to stake the corners to keep you boards from shifting around when you add soil or compost and have to mix it in. When you fill it, try to make it so that you have a center ridge to encourage drainage. Nothing like having a water feature in the middle of your garden beds, the plants don't seem to appreciate standing in water.
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try air gardening usally people use the cloth bag recycle grocery bags. when the root hits the end of the bag is will send a signal to the plant telling it to grow more roots. even tho you have more than enough space just hearing the idea made me wanting to try
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Becky, you are such an encouragement to me. I'm learning to use what I have and do the best I can. When my husband was alive we had a big garden every year. He did all the gardening while I watched. It seemed so hard the way he did it with 40' rows. Last year I planted my first raised bed garden of tomatoes. I only planted tomatoes because I really didn't think I would be very successful. I was amazed! It made me so happy to watch those little plants grow up and up. My first little garden spot was only 4' x 6', but I got a bumper crop of the little Tommy Toe Tomatoes. Right now I am building a lean to goat shelter on the back of the playhouse (children are 17 and 14 now so it is unused). I want the goats to help me clear off my property which I haven't worked on over the past three years. Kind of lost the direction that we had before my husband died, but I am thinking more clearly now and want to go on with what we had imagined to begin with. I am so glad to have found your videos.
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that hen will turn your compost for you. lol. she's working for her supper. lol.
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Haha Chickens do love to garden! Mine get in the way any time I'm raking or digging anywhere. And any compost piles I have end up being a general area where I rake leaves, then rake them back up again from time to time. AT least I don't have to turn it.
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hi becky..just wondering do u live alone in ur cabin?
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I love your videos! Could you do a round up of your homestead pleaseee and show us all of your homestead!x
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Look up hugelkulture also known as mound culture set it up once last 15 years no till. as for composting you should treat the compost as a way to feed your chickens. Bugs get in the compost and they eat it. Add wood chips in your animal pens and you have compost from the manure and urea. You can also put huge wood piles in your pig pen and when they do their business it brakes down the wood pile. No cleanup. add like maybe a few feet of wood in the big pen also no smell. the goal is to get your land to do the work for you not you do the work for the land. not many farmers understand that.
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Make sure your beds are level. Also be sure to dig up the soil in bed before you fill it
That chicken is just what you want for your compost pile. She will turn it for you -
hi Becky im a big fan of you and i was wondering what do you do to your chickens in the winter
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Do you eat your chickens
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yes composting is soooooo important, don't worry about your boxes not being deep enough, the earth is your floor, start adding your raw kitchen scraps to your boxes and cover the scraps with straw, keep moist. The worms will come up and eat all the organic matter and create your compost :) Happy gardening sweetie, love your video's.
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You've lost weight Becky!!!!!!! keep up the great work:)
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glad you are composting!!! smart making them narrow enough to reach across - I do the same thing!!
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I put my compost in the chicken space, so they turn it for me. and the fastest way to make compost is to get something to eat it. My compost is chicken poo, veg and kitchen scraps, and straw.
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if it works go for it .
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You can even use cement blocks as your raised bed too. Use those leaves you are raking in your compost!
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I hope you wood is not wolmanized, that is toxic. I used chunks of firewood as my shallow raised beds. FREE!
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Nice Job Ms. Beckey
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I'm detecting a lady from the Great Lakes region? Acrosst? ;) That's what we say in Michigan!
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