How to Sheet Mulch a new garden bed🌱 || Create a Berm Garden 📦🌸
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this video, I expand my gardening space using the sheetmulching techniques. I also raised the elevation of this area by creating a berm garden. 🌱🌱🌱
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Thanks for going through your sheet mulching process in such great detail. You’re a great teacher! I used your method to create some new beds last summer and it worked really well. A few stubborn weeds are getting through the mulch this season, but overall it worked quite well and was so much easier than digging out all that turf. I can see that I have to get to work on consistently making clean edges to keep the grass from creeping back in.
Glad it was helpful!🌱 I am so glad to hear that you have had success! Happy gardening
Cardboard seems to work nicely. And where I work, we get a lot of that brown paper packing material pre-cut into approximately 2 x 3 rectangles. Laying that stuff down seems to work quite nicely as a sheet mulch. It’s not nearly as thick as cardboard would be but so far laying down and covering it and bark mulch or P gravel or whatever seems to be working quite well. Currently restoring a front yard wheaty overgrown flower bed using this method.
Seeing your process of sheet mulching that is all I do now when doing another bed
Boom!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🌱🌱🌱🌸🌸🌸
It’s so satisfying to see it come together. I love that you are repurposing what’s on your property. Frugal is not a four-letter word! Go Jay!
Blessings…daisy
Yes! Thank you!🌱🌱🌱
Hi Jay , thank you for showing the good and the bad with gardening this is how older and new gardener's learn more.
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
Love it. Great info, and the background music is perfect, reminds me of the Charlie Brown Christmas music but for mulching. 😅
your method is fabulous! Much easier than removing all of the grass and I love how you create burms.
This is such an ingenious way to build your flower bed. I really enjoyed watching and learned so much from you. I only wish I were as young and strong as you!
💪🏾 Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱
Getting rid of lawn is my goal, as well. Love the jazz interludes! I'm also a fan of plain mulch (or even better, wood chips if you can get them). The dyed stuff may have been made from any old wood, including pressure-treated, diseased, or anything. Can't wait to see what you plant in that lovely bed!
Wood chips are the best! 🌱🌱🌱
I love seeing a way to reuse the sod. Thank you for sharing your techniques. I can't wait to get started.
You are so welcome!🌱🌱🌱
I love that you teach us different ways to create a garden bed. To use what you have on hand, dig up areas that need it and transfer to the bed, have great friends who gift you with cardboard (that last one is a treasure, cardboard is hard to come by). Im always inspired by your videos and you are so darn cute!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱🌱🌸🌸🫶🏾
Looking good and your previous bed has filled in nicely 👌
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
It looks so good! You're such an inspiration. I started my first sheet mulching bed because of your videos on IG. This is my first time seeing your YT. Going to check out more vids. Also I need more mulch!
Thank you so much!!🌱🌱
I only wear long sleeved dry-fit shirts! I started wearing them a few years back. I'm addicted to them. They're rated high for uv protection.
You are very resourceful! I would have never thought to recycle my own soil.
Publix, Food Lion and HT will give you paper bags. I hit them all the same day and had extra.
Nice artwork!
July? I thought you werec holding out on us!! But then you showed us progression! 😅
Thanks for sharing!
I am with you about the pine bark mulch, that is the only kind I use. I never buy those colored type with all that dye in them, I try to do everything all organic.
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Very helpful information.
Glad it was helpful!
your such an inspiration,.. thank you for showing this little idea to us all.. easy or not, some need to see it and I was happy when I found yours. Great Job!
You are so welcome!🌱🌱🌱
I love how you are utilizing waste to create a new berm! When I buy groceries I always opt for the paper bags - they add up over a yrs time! When I want to sheet mulch, I take a stack of the paper grocery bags and soak them in a tub of water. The seams come undone and the paper softens but still holds its toughness. I unfold the wet sheets and lay them over the area I want to claim for a garden. They drape beautifully! And I find that even one layer thick is very sufficient. It does the job for me!
I love how you walked us thru the process. I have Bermuda grass and spend more time pulling grass out of flower beds than weeds. Maybe I need to dig the edges consistently to keep the grass out.
Give it a try. Happy gardening!🌱🌱
I have Zoysia grass which also spreads by underground rhizomes. Keep that edge defined so the rhizomes won't have a path into your bed! I dug a 6 inch edge around my garden bed since Zoysia rhizomes are pretty deep (and I'm worried that it still won't be deep enough lol), but Bermuda rhizomes are 1 to 4 inches deep if I'm not mistaken so you don't have to go as deep as I did (definitely double check my info on the depth though and good luck!).
Good work!
Hey sweetie, love your hard work and great results.,I recently found out after 10+ years that tree roots will grow toward water. I never put that together with septic lines should anyone live in rural area.Not having a tree near the water lines or septic lines will SAVE lots of money from having to pay someone to remove and or replace the lines down the road. I was told that 20 ft away from house or structure would also prevent foundation damage as well. I could take a trip around the world with this lesson learned…..
I did this last summer with a new bed! ❤ it worked so well. I found clearance trees to add to the bed. so as I plant I put cardboard, top soil & mulch down. I’m really happy I found your channel. ❤
That is awesome!🌱🌼🪻
You are a gardener after my own heart, I just love the way you make it work.
Wow, thank you💕🌱
You did a FANATASTIC job! And no weed mat!! Laying the way you did means it will be easier to keep weeds down and the weeds that do come, will be easier to remove. And the soil is healthier for your plants. For free cardboard, the U-Hauls usually give away used cardboard. You can also check with box stores or your local recycle center. No need to ever buy cardboard!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 never buy cardboard! Thank you for sharing! 🌱🌱
Using the edging to raise a bed is excellent. Well done. Happy to see less turf lawn. Look forward to seeing some native or cultivars of natives going in.
Thank you for showing the time and work progression in such detail! And for explaining all so well. I have a few to do. It is a lot of work, but so worth it.
Love it! I do the same but I mulch with grass clippings until I start getting it settled and planted then my goal is to use mulch
That is awesome!🌱🌱🌱
Your videos are so informative and inspiring. Definitely giving me direction on a simpler way of creating garden beds, especially here in South Carolina with this humidity! Gotta work smarter, not harder! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
I like how we can see the hell strip in this video also! 😊
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
Wow. Your efforts are impressive! Happy to learn you’re in SC as I’m looking at a house in Graniteville and thinking seriously of leaving San Diego. It’s encouraging to see you growing some of my fave plants. Can you grow Avocado and Citrus in your area? Thanks
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
I found you on IG and enjoy your teaching style . I’ll be incorporating your pointers on building a berm, we pulled out a failing above ground swimming pool, more space for gardens!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱 happy gardening 🌼
Great video! 😊
I get newspaper & cardboard from recycle center. Maybe there is one close to you.
I plan my new bed edges with hose or rope then run the mower around it. I don't want any contours so sharp I can't run the mower wheel along the edge.
No hand trimming for any of my beds 😊
Nice method!
If you're ever looking for tons of free cardboard, I went to Dollar General before I sheet mulched a bed in my garden a few weeks ago and asked if I could take their scrap cardboard off of their hands. I ended up going home with my trunk and back seat full of it!
You make it looks so easy! Thank you for sharing your method 😊
Thanks for watching!
I love your tips. I was wondering if it would be possible to sheet mulch under a pine tree. Have you ever done anything like that?
I do not know. I don’t have any pine trees. Thanks for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
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Wow it's a lot of hard work I know because I have done this ! Your doing a lot better than I did it's looking great all the hard work is worth it in the end and it's easy to see that your a hard worker.
Very informative video. Thanks so much for sharing. Looks so nice!
Inspirational, you’re amazing! Wish I had your youthful energy.
Nice job! I really want to try this but my soil is so compacted and rocky I’m afraid just doing to edge would be extremely laborious.
Try a small area and see what happens. It’s all trial and error. 🌱
I have a question. How do you plant? Im guessing just dig right through the carboard? Would it be easier to plant first then lay down the cardboard?
Both are great options! You can also wait 6-12 months once the cardboard has decomposed
In another video previous, she demonstrates sheet mulching around plants, they were already established, I think she was sheet mulching a weedy garden bed, perhaps 🌿🌿
I have the same question? So I guess you can never add plants once the cardboard is down?😮
@@sheliafears591I’ve done this in the fall and then planted in the spring (the wetness of the season breaks it down) and I’ve cut holes in the cardboard one week later to plant! The wetter it is the easier it is!
If you’ve already laid your sheet mulch and mulch, use a shovel to pull the mulch away and cut an “x” through the cardboard where you want to plant. Then pull back through cardboard and plant!
Your gardens are so beautiful!😊
Love! Can’t wait for the next part!
I need to expand some beds, too. Never enough gardening space😂
Always room for more! 🌺🌺🌺
I’ve seen some of your videos and I was wondering if you have problems with fire ants in your grass, flower beds? Love your flowers and yard.
Sometimes but it not a big deal. I disturb them and they move else where.
You garden is beautiful
You've given me great ideas to expand existing flower beds. Thanks. Am a new subscriber! By the way, please mention what zone you're in.
South Carolina zone 8
Thank you for the walk thru Jay. I’m a novice gardener currently prospecting a sheet mulch job of my own. What is your method when it comes to planting after a sheet mulch? Do you just dig/cut thru the mulch, cardboard and sod? How long do you usually wait to do any planting?
You can wait 6 to 12 months or you can plant immediately by cutting through the cardboard.
If I come across any mounds, I pour vinegar on them. It’s doesn’t kill them, then they just leave and go elsewhere.
Thank you for that! I will try it the next time
I know that was a lot of work. I have tried edging beds a few times but the Georgia clay has been a challenge. Good for u getting that done
When I did a surprise garden bed for my parents (who have heavy clay in their yard too), I had to sharpen my shovel with an angle grinder and water the soil just to get the shovel to go in with all of my body weight. I was rassling what felt like 80 pound blocks of soil out of the ground around the entire perimeter of that bed, and when the bed was done and I mentioned that to my dad, he laughed and told me he rolled that ground three times with the heaviest roller on the farm when they first built the house haha they built the house up since our area floods and he was making sure that soil was settled.
It was quite the contrast from some of the videos where people slide their edger in like butter and the soil just lifts out of the way lol
Great work as usual Jay! Your artistic creativity is on full display 🎉
Cool! How long does it have to settle before you plant in it?
6-12 months is best but sometimes I plant 2 months later. Just cut through the cardboard
Thanks for such an instructional video! Your channel is the best! I am getting ready to start sheet mulching my front yard because I don't want to mow! I live in NW Oregon. Some say it is best to sheet mulch in the fall? Do you think it really matters what time of year? I am in Zone 7. Thanks!
You are very welcome! Sheet mulching can be done at any time of the year, but I do think fall is the best time. During the fall, there is lots of rainfall to help the cardboard decompose and weeds aren’t actively growing during this time.
@@jaysgardenjournal ah, makes good sense. we still get good rainfall but weeds are actively growing! thanks so much! :)
I'm going to sheet mulch a new bed this year so I can plant next spring. I was wondering, when you plant you just dig through all the mulch?
I'm thinking about doing this in a place where the grass already doesn't do well
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What topsoil do you recommend? Thanks
The cheapest kind when you are sheet mulching 🌱
If there is a cardboard recycle dumpster...get it there for free. I ask first and I always have neighbors save boxes for me!
Do you have to redo this every year?
Only once. I mulch yearly
What kind of grass do you have?
Weeds, clover, fescue