Sowing & Transplanting Into Our Alaskan Raised Bed Garden
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The time is here! After three months of work, seeding and preparing our garden plants, we are finally at the point where we can start phasing into the ground!
This is the first of our major gardens we plant every year. Our raised bed is primarily used for intensive growing of root vegetables, allium, leafy greens and celery. Our three other gardens handle all of our other crops that we grow and will be coming soon!
We are excited to be at this point and show you how we start our gardening process. The next two weeks will be super busy for us as we prep and plant the remainder of our garden. We can't wait for our first garden fresh salads, it's been too long.
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How do you decide what you grow in the buckets, and what you grow in raised beds? How do you get the soil temperature to warm up in the raised beds? What date are you putting plants out into the beds?
In general, we use the raised beds for small/medium sized plants, whereas containers are used for larger plants. We find this uses the soil most effectively. We do grow herbs and beans in containers, both of which are "medium" size. That's to get our herbs close to the house, so we use them more frequently. And for beans, because they do better with higher soil temperatures! Hope that helps!
And I thought I had a short growing season! 😅
It's over in a blink of an eye, it seems! But, we manage to produce a lot with what we've got!
Where do you live?
@@RonSafreed NY
@@ofrecentvintagesounds like you are climate zone #4, humid-continental, short warm summer, & the frost-free growing season is no more than 150-160 days, 3-5 months of permanent ice & snow, 20-30 inches of rainfall annually but snowfall can be quite heavy & the winter leans towards being severe with blizzards!! Am I right??
Congrats on being 100% seed-grown! I am too. Are your raised bed hoops anchored by rebar?
We did not anchor our beds, just the weight of the soil keeps 'em down. We don't get super high winds. They are armored underneath with hardware cloth to prevent voles from burrowing up from underneath and nibbling our food.
@@frostygarden907 Thanks for taking time to respond, especially during busy season! I was actually wondering how the PVC pipes you have hooped over your beds are anchored. I thought you might have pounded in rebar to stick the PVC pipe ends over.
@@ofrecentvintage Ah, gotcha! We have short 1 inch PVC pieces anchored to the sides of the bed at regular intervals, secured to the beds with conduit clamps. Then, we use 1/2 inch PVC for the hoops, which slides right into the 1 inch "holders." This makes them easily removable, so we can swap them between our beds. All of our beds have the 1 inch pieces, so any bed can accept the hoops. Hope that's clear!
@@frostygarden907 Very clear--and clever! I'm going to see if I can do something similar. Thank you so much for the information, clarification and inspiration! Happy growing 🌿