Greetings fellow homesteaders, I have to say when I first started, I did the same basic mistakes you experienced so here is a couple suggestions I have and am using now, I replaced the walls of the beds with Cinder Blocks, this gave me the option to either make a wide seat for pruning and harvesting, or filling the holes with compost for all the herbs for food and medicinal purposes which I ended up doing the later, also I had put on the floor of the beds before filling them is a tight screen ( stainless steel) on the bottom as the year before I experienced plants dying and didn't know why, but then I found burrowing creatures including slugs coming up and eating the roots and sometimes the whole plant, putting this screen down stopped all of that, plus trying to master compost with adding ground up egg shells for calcium and dried banana peels for potassium and phosphorus ( most helpful for tomatoes and peppers) but the whole garden flourishes, leafy likes blood meal and or bone meal ( High nitrogen so watch our amounts ) suggestions here have more than helped me, and I hope it will help you too
Thanks so much, never thought of cinder blocks for a garden bed and putting down a metal screen is brilliant because we have issues with burrowing rodents, it's very frustrating. Thanks for these tips!
Greetings fellow homesteaders, I have to say when I first started, I did the same basic mistakes you experienced so here is a couple suggestions I have and am using now, I replaced the walls of the beds with Cinder Blocks, this gave me the option to either make a wide seat for pruning and harvesting, or filling the holes with compost for all the herbs for food and medicinal purposes which I ended up doing the later, also I had put on the floor of the beds before filling them is a tight screen ( stainless steel) on the bottom as the year before I experienced plants dying and didn't know why, but then I found burrowing creatures including slugs coming up and eating the roots and sometimes the whole plant, putting this screen down stopped all of that, plus trying to master compost with adding ground up egg shells for calcium and dried banana peels for potassium and phosphorus ( most helpful for tomatoes and peppers) but the whole garden flourishes, leafy likes blood meal and or bone meal ( High nitrogen so watch our amounts ) suggestions here have more than helped me, and I hope it will help you too
Thanks so much, never thought of cinder blocks for a garden bed and putting down a metal screen is brilliant because we have issues with burrowing rodents, it's very frustrating. Thanks for these tips!
Don't weed your butt off, get a weed barrier, there is nothing you can do against weeds.
They are the worst! We have put down a barrier on half the garden as a test to see how much it kills them off. Hoping it does the trick!
Mulch and weed barrier end most weeding problems. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.
Yeah we are definitly going to be relying on more mulch next year. Thanks for watching!
I am watching you from the Ural mountains in Russia. As for weeding, I would support the idea of mulching. It is a great thing.
Wow I am guessing you are the furthest viewer from us, thanks for watching! Hope the mountains are nice🙂
Nice video! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!