I had looked them up before I'd even seen this video and was wondering how good the soil was so I'm glad to hear this & will check them out. Which package did you get? Did you do the premium blend organic compost-omri or the super soil raised bed package?
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY thank you so much, I will do the same then. This is my first year ever doing any type of gardening so I want to do it right. Is there any specific amount like how many inches you put down for the top dressing layer? Vs the raised bed fill amount?
My husband has never been a hands on guy. He was a detective for 26 years and always hired somebody to even mow the lawn, after watching this he says he's ready to make these because you explained it all so well.thank you!
This is one of the most helpful video's. I am a widowed woman have been for some time. My husband died in 98. And this was our dream to go off grid. Except he got cancer and died at 32 when my kids were 6&8. My true love. I am still single kids raised. Never an easy moment and never a dull moment. I don't know how I managed. I am getting on with your help and I am so grateful.
Just a tip from a 25+ year machinist, never let you tape measure slam closed, it will stretch the holes out that hole the end piece on and it won't be accurate anymore and will get off more and more every time you let it slam shut. It is designed to move back and forth exactly the thickness of the end of the tape to allow for inside vs outside measurements. Have a blessed day!
Our tomatoes and peppers went CRAZY this past year. So big, so heavily laden with fruit that it took 2 people to harvest. One to hold up the vines and the other to harvest. Learned our lesson on quite a few things this past year! I also made raised beds out of the lumber from our back porch that I tore apart. Maybe not the best choice but there were over 200 boards that needed to be repurposed. I am a repurposing fool!
It's currently winter right now but watching this video gets me all hyped up and ready for the spring! I cannot wait to build my raised garden beds!! Thank you, Doug and Stacy for your tips, tricks, and advice! I cannot thank you both enough...you both have been such an inspiration to me!! God bless you and your family!
Goodafternoon, Your are a blessing for all humanity. Thank you so much for all the hard work, dedication and valuble information you provide us, may GOD our father bless you, your wonderful wife and family 🙏
Thank you Doug for the valuable tip of using wire type mesh at the bottom of the garden bed, followed by compost. I agree Stacy, organic matter top soil is best. I like the " lasagna method" of layering with branches, green plant waste and scraps; and compost. It keeps my soil stable, nutritious, and the roots well fed. I agree Doug, crop rotation is important for mineral mix. God bless. 😇
The general rule for the width of raised beds is that they be no wider than you can reach into the center comfortably. For most women, that's 4 feet wide. If you can't get to both sides, the recommendation is for 3' wide, unless the person taking care of the beds has a longer reach. Your raised beds are so beautiful! They'd be a joy to work!
I build my beds exactly as you do and I agree that raised beds are fantastic! It's also easy to turn them into hoop houses and protect seedlings from frost
This to me is the best thing video it shows you how to begin your growing your own food. If you don't have a good foundation to anything you do than the end product is not good I cannot wait to make my raised beds. Thank you.
I needed this. We're building 8 new raised beds for Spring, we have too much gravel in our soil in odd places. Tried growing in the ground this year and it was hit or miss with the gravel, but my 2 raised beds did terrific. Rabbit poop is my secret sauce.
Thank you for the diy build and tips! We are planning a big garden in raised boxes. We are going to “Be the store.” 😊 Thank you Heavenly Father for your provisions. 🙏
You both are famous now to me and my husband...I've read some of Joel Salitins books and we went out of our way to go meet him when we were in West Virginia! Wish we could go to your homesteading event.thank you all for the great information you guys are so organized and putting out all that information must be a lot of work! Have a great homesteading day!!
I did learn something for sure! I'd love to have raised beds but not possible in my situation, but I just finished a video your wife did showing using pots on my porch which I'm totally going to do. Was happy to hear you are Shabbat keepers, me too. I'm learning so much from both of you, thank you so much! Shalom!
This was very timely, getting ready to jump into raised bed construction. Cedar planks and hardware cloth-as always a huge wealth of information. Thank you Doug and Stacy, Wilber and Margaret-getting very excited about that F150 XLT- Blessings and Grace
Excellent video! Thanks for the hardware cloth tip. You are the first person I’ve seen to suggest this and I have watched A LOT of videos on raised bed gardening. I have been doing container gardening and am now interested in branching out into raised beds.
I really appreciate everything you guys do. As soon as I’m ready to purchase my supplies, I will use your link, so you guys receive the credit you deserve. Your information is gold.
I absolutely love both of your passion to live one with the land. I have been feeling such a strong pull for 5+ years and soon we will be living our best life, one with nature like you both! THANK YOU!
We had to turn our 'in ground' garden into all raised beds because our ground was so full of clay we had no drainage. This year was our best harvest ever! Most of mine are 4' x 8'. Strawberry and asparagus are 4' x 16'
Love the video! I’ve done a lot of raised beds over the years & have been learning how to make our own compost! We have a compost bin for all our leftover foods. We had a little homestead going at our home that we recently had to move from because of the property owner having to pay 87 grand in taxes! We had rabbits and everything! But we had to re home them all & we had to sell all the cages I build for them it really sucked but thing happen for a reason & now my wife and I are saving up to be able to by our own property so we don’t have to rely on anyone else but ourselves!! Thank you for everything you do & praying my wife and I will be able to help more out as you and your wife helps us ❤️❤️
I DID learn something new today, about the hardware cloth. Thank you! I put together one raised bed a couple of years ago. I put down newspaper and cardboard, then put in limbs and sticks that had fallen from my trees. Then I put the compost (from a local company). It has done very well. I have two blueberry bushes and two grapevines in there. They all came back this year. It's the very first time that I have had any luck at all with blueberries. :-) Last year I grew tomatoes and peppers in there, too. This year I have three new raised beds. I already have the limbs and compost to go in there, but looks like I will have to get some hardware cloth to go in first. Thanks again for all of the golden nuggets! God Bless! Carmen
I appreciate the simplistic way you explain how to build and set up your raised beds to help any novice jump right into gardening for the first time.....plus sharing the importance of hardware cloth to keep the critters from digging up the plants root system.
An easier to sqaure corners is to use the 3, 4, 5....on a corner measure 3 units on one end board then 4 units on the adjoining board then connect those two with 5 units (units equal feet) so you make a three four five triangle
40+ years ago I started gardening food. I'm still going at it - I only missed a year of gardening during all those years - I didn't have a home or yard to garden in. I have grown in the ground, and in containers and both. Now that I'm older, I do container gardening. I have been eating kale and spinach since late January this year. I have a lot of herbs seeded and some I'm eating - basil. I have seeds started for tomatoes, radishes, peppers, and peas, and will direct sow green beans, beets, carrots, more lettuces, onions and whatever else I can get growing. We must have green beans, snap peas, tomatoes and carrots no matter what. I personally love radishes. my kids still grab all the snap peas on the vines so I have to plant a lot to make sure I get some. My grandkids love to pick and eat almost everything - dirt and all. I always plant organic beginning to end. I cannot imagine not having my own fresh food. I have preserved the abundance via canning, freezing, brining and fermenting. I have mentored along lots of folks, and will continue to share what I know until I no longer have thoughts. Happy growing and lots of love to you both. thanks for sharing your lives with us.
Hi Doug & Stacy!! We decided to go with the houghgaculture for a very large built box about 24' x 5'. We used scrap lumber and placed PVC pipe hoops and placed chicken wire over the hoops. All of this was attached to a frame built the size of the box and attached with conduit pipe brackets. It's a dome over ALL year I can open as we attached hinges we also place heavy gauge plastic for greenhouse effect. We like it but our cute 🐦🕊️🐦 don't! It was so much of a drought I lost some of my ground garden. The mix we did it was soo DRY the ground was cooking and turned everything to a POWDER DEEP into the soil. My grow box did a little better. I like trying different ideas to help with my gardening. I did harvest but rain 🤔 would've made for better. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND INSPIRATION YOU GIVE SO FREELY. JESUS CHRIST GAVE OF HIMSELF TO TEACH THE GOSPEL AND HE SUFFERED AND DIED ON A CROSS FOR ALL OF MANKIND AND WHO WOULD ACCEPT HIM AS SAVIOR. BLESSINGS WITH LOVE TO YOU BOTH♥️🙏👍
I didn’t know about the hardware cloth. Thank you and I was just gonna grow a few things but you guys inspired me to grow a bunch more stuff. Some in pots around the raised garden and around the chicken coop like oregano, mint and lemon balm
Doug and stacy my hubby and I love love love your videos!!!!. We are hoping one day to build our own homestead and log cabin to live in and be self sustaining. We are so happy we found your videos. Even our kids enjoy watching how things are done and we have build our own raised garden beds which we have grown our food in and canned for the last 2 summers. We hope one day to as self sustaining as you. Saving up now to buy the land. This year we get our chickens. We only have just u der an acher now. But believe me We take notes on your videos. God bless ya’ll
I'm not sure how I missed this video. I think I've been subscribed to you guys for 2 years. and I try to go through the list and watch all your content. I've never seen this one!😊
I love to tour old homes from 1800's even Plymouth Plantation and St. Augustine FL, some late 1600's. I can remember how happy Mom was when a bread truck finally made it out as far as our farm. She was in HEAVEN!
Thanks for the tip about the hardware cloth! I'm about to start my first raised bed, and I've been watching videos and taking notes, so I really appreciate the timely tip! Yah bless you and your efforts. Shabbat Shalom! :)
I just love watching you guys. I learn so much and I find myself smiling through all your videos. Thanks for all the knowledge and joy, I truly appreciate it.
I have just started gardening again I did it as a child with my Dad. I only planted a couple plants. I planted 1 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, and 1 cherry tomato, 1 cucumber and some herbs such as Basil, English Thyme, Flat Leaf Parsley, Rosemary, and Lemon Sage to see how they grow here in Las Vegas. I am excited and am hoping to make a raised bed but since we don't own our place I need them to be movable so this has given me some great ideas to make them a little smaller so I can eventually take them to their forever home. Thanks I really enjoyed the video. My hope is to be living off grid in 12 years. Thanks... Koko
Watching the screws go in as smooth as silk. Meanwhile mines jumping, splitting and I’m cussing a blue streak. Even with wax on them. Bless you and your drill.
pilot holes can help a lot. also soap on your screw threads (good on the wax! that should help too), lower your drill speed, go with a higher torque setting if possible, and use the largest driver head that will fit your screw. pilot holes can definitely help with the splitting, (go with about 2/3- 3/4 the diameter of the screw shaft) and rubbing soap on the screwthreads helps lubricate them going in, if the drill's turning highspeed, if it catches at all it'll slam the driver head against the recess in the screw and jump it out. a lower speed and a higher torque is kinda like using first gear to haul a trailer - might be a bit slower, but you're making steady progress, and the higher torque will cut in better. and the largest driver head that will securely fit eliminates wobble, which can also cause jumping, and is way less likely to strip your screwhead out as well.
Bro you two are an inspiration to many people who love living off the grid my wife and I love you two thank you for helping countless people be self sufficient ❤️
Planning on doing this this year for the first time. Just got our house built on 6.2 acres. Going to build a greenhouse and chicken coop too. I'm super excited!!! 👏👏👏👏
Cost prohibitive for many but still good info & something to aim for. I have cedar I'm going to cut & have made into planks. I admit tho that my nxt door neighbor runs a small sawmill...otherwise I most likely wouldn't. Cedar is awesome however!
Hey Doug and Stacy I've been watching your guys's videos for a long time now, I've even started my own garden this year and I'm out here in California Central valley Modesto to be exact where it gets really hot out here and my potatoes are doing excellent. that's what I have going in my backyard.The variety of potatoes are Magic molly, Idaho, gold,& red. the slugs and snails try to get into my garden bed consistently so I go out there every morning to defend my food from those pests.
We have used raised beds since the mid 70's. There is no other way to get the most for the least work! And we have always thrown sticks and stuff in the bottom to get rid of the mess in our yard but had no idea it actually had a name for it! One year we had a lot of rain and everyone's seeds rotted but our garden did great and was a month ahead of everyone else. They thought we were nuts doing all the work but then they saw our beautiful garden and they had nothing after a month. We changed a lot of minds about raised beds that year. Thanks for all of the info in this video. One thing you didn't talk about is getting the bed level before adding the dirt. That is important for the water to stay where you put it and not drain to one side.
I really appreciate the detailed information. When my wife retires in two years, we're bailing from California and we're going to start a homestead. My personality is a big picture kind of guy. I've been a company grade officer but I think like a field grade officer sometimes. That's not always good. LOL What's worse is that I can f*** up things up that are PFC level. The way you teach and speak here is invaluable. Continuing along the military allegory, you are Master Sergeant or Sergeant Major material. Bless you.
well because of the lock down iv been making home brew beer ,backing our own bread ,and i kid you not i just made some raised garden beds ,and im about to get my self one of them new flow hives , nothing like fresh honey , my wife and i love your show , thank's
IM ENJOYING YOUR VIDEOS AND NEW TO ALL OF THIS. IVE STARTED FERMENTING THINGS AND PUTTING OTHER TIPS INTO MOTION. I CANT WAIT TO BUILD MY RAISED BED!!! ☀️🥰. THANK YOU!!!
I have always grown in raised beds, every thing is in and growing :-) Give's me great pleasure watching them pop up. I will start pulling my first crop of carrots in 2 weeks/ Kale. I was going to down size this year but instead i have put more raised beds in :-) Take care be safe every one. Oh 1 thing i do is line the box last longer.
Bakercreek is OUR neighbor in Mansfield Mo. Thats where we get alot of OUR seeds. Love the friendly people They are very helpful. Just like you and Stacy.
Good Video and Advice! I wish I had known this in Salmon, ID. I had huge garden and a passive Solar Greenhouse attached to the house on the South-side. I went to Missoula, Mt and found 55 Gallon Drums for $7 ea, painted Black. They had been filled with Soap liquid at one time. Perfect, I filled them with water from our well; that was our Heat Storage. We Stacked 2 drums high, against the wall of the house. The weather in the Winter got -25 F or lower. Wind chill was -125 F one time or more! Gosh darn, it got Cold there, just like Alaska! I knew about raised beds, but former husband nixed the idea. (He didn't want to do the work. lol) My next home will have raised beds for sure. Thank you for your Raised Bed 101, Doug & Stacy!
Doug, you're a great teacher, I got some very useful tips. I've always want to try to grow veggies in a raised bed but wasn't sure how to go about it, your explanation and logical method has encouraged me to try....okay, okay....to at least THINK about trying....hahaha The folks that brought the frankenvirus currently...have also quietly announced a food shortage in the near future....watching the daily NOAA satellite weather site one can see that THEY are making that a possibility...I know the weather has been cooler and much windier than normally here....My Doug and Stacy "SunOven Special" has finally arrived but I'm afraid the wind is delaying my first "test-drive"...crossing fingers and saying a prayer that I'll be able to utilize God's sunshine gift before my farmer's market vegetables go bad...I think you and Stacy live a noble life...take care and thank you
Saw you dumping that raised bed clear full of your compost mixture and thought, "hasn't Doug heard of Hügelkultur?" I worried for nothing, Doug is way ahead of me. 29:15 Beautiful beds there Doug.
We started putting in our raised beds yesterday. This video's extremely helpful we are going to do the other half for the garden with these tips to day. We have a dozen horses and have horse manure that is old 10 years old… Will be using out along with old chicken droppings dirt I hope this works somewhat. As we are quite nervous about the food situation in the world the way it is right now. We are hitting gardening hard. growing a lot of seedlings in house to start them out Trying to front load the food supply as much as possible just don't know what's going to happen I'm also looking into getting a pressure canner in cased the food crop comes in at the same time We live in San Diego County. But we live in the country.
One of the best gardens I ever grew was on a weeds I had dug up and put into a long pile. One year I had no manures to put into the garden and not much soil to top it with. What I did that year was put some of our clay soil on top of the dried weeds, which were mostly Canadian thistle and dandelions. I found a bag of peat moss and put it on top of the clay soil. It was only 4 of 5 inches deep. I then planted my garden and it grew so well, I was amazed. I grew on that mound for for or five years before it became flat with no sign of a mound. I was impressed for the good.
I’m seeing a lot of money to set this place up. Even has a Skid steer ( looks like a Cat 246 ,, great machine. ).,,, I’m building my raised beds out of concrete, 16 ft x 3 ft. And 2 ft tall. ..chamfered corners. 8 inch thick. Making 4 beds. This guy is livin a good life.
We are putting our raised beds in today. However, we live a the top of a mountain and our beds are 6'× 3' and we are using pine. Everything has gone up in price so the pine was our only choice. Thank you for all the great information about building raised beds. We woke up to snow last Sunday and we agree it has been crazy weather this year. Have an amazing Easter.
Good evening Doug, Great videos! Sure wish we had taken your route and be living on a farm. Miss the freedom of owning our own home. Had a family of 5 children, beautiful old home, with gardens and enough property to do as we pleased. But all those shoes, and a 100+ yr old home that needed a new roof and a new furnace...well, Wells Fargo wouldn't work with us in 2006 to refinance, so here we are, now, just the two of us, in a condo. You two are so fortunate, but we know you both worked hard to make it work) I have to believe, " where there's a will, there's a way". Optimism. Thanks for the enjoyable videos))
Love all the tips, thanks for sharing. I'm coming to the end of my growing season but I'm still experimenting on ways to grow during the heat of summer here in South Florida.
Love you man.....Giving us 30 years of experience in 30 to 40 minutes....can't beat that. There's NO PRICE you can put on an Education that is 100% Tried, Trued and Proven!! I like watching to refresh my memory....many things we forget as we get caught up in life's bellows and for us living in the suburbs or outskirts of cities, I see your videos as grocery store knowledge waiting to be eaten. That makes no sense -- unless you've done the raised bed stuff -- and have eaten from the efforts of your successes! Thanks man....and Thanks to the Wife (The Boss)!
In MO too and the weather has made getting started a little tough. We dont have a green house yet so I have the multiple teenagers helping me carry a ridiculous number of seedlings back and forth from every flat surface near a window to outside on pretty days and back again. Lol. Takes a lot of plants for a fam of 10 plus gram'ma!
Like this one. I was ready to turn the ground, but now I'm all in with the raised bed. 10,000 years ago this was beachfront property. Not much more than sand now. Been working on compost for a while now. Believe it's time for a raised bed. Enjoying the content. See yall later.
I just built my raised bed boxes before I saw your video and I put landscape fabric and chicken wire on the bottom of my boxes..then I saw your posts and I told my wife that you do the exact same thing for keeping the animals out!!
Doug wanted to go back to the house where you and Stacy were going to eat dinner. I wanted to see the good chow Stacy was getting on for dinner. Lol 😁👍 good eating my friends, as always thank you for your videos. 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤😁 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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I had looked them up before I'd even seen this video and was wondering how good the soil was so I'm glad to hear this & will check them out. Which package did you get?
Did you do the premium blend organic compost-omri or the super soil raised bed package?
@@TheWayWalker raised bed mix and compost mix for the top dressing
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY thank you so much, I will do the same then. This is my first year ever doing any type of gardening so I want to do it right.
Is there any specific amount like how many inches you put down for the top dressing layer? Vs the raised bed fill amount?
My husband has never been a hands on guy. He was a detective for 26 years and always hired somebody to even mow the lawn, after watching this he says he's ready to make these because you explained it all so well.thank you!
Mines not either. Still not interested. But I think that I can hammer these out!
It’s three years later…2023. Did he make them for you? How do you like it?
@@cbass2755 actually they commented 11 months ago but looks like she's not seeing the notification yet. I love this vid. In going to do them myself.
Did it happen?
This is one of the most helpful video's. I am a widowed woman have been for some time. My husband died in 98.
And this was our dream to go off grid. Except he got cancer and died at 32 when my kids were 6&8. My true love. I am still single kids raised. Never an easy moment and never a dull moment. I don't know how I managed. I am getting on with your help and I am so grateful.
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Praying for you 🙏
@@lmbarnhart4898 thank you so much!!
Sorry to hear that! Are your children still at home? God bless
@@juliecarter8098 out on their own now. They prefer the city life.
Just a tip from a 25+ year machinist, never let you tape measure slam closed, it will stretch the holes out that hole the end piece on and it won't be accurate anymore and will get off more and more every time you let it slam shut. It is designed to move back and forth exactly the thickness of the end of the tape to allow for inside vs outside measurements. Have a blessed day!
Doug you’re a great teacher! God bless you and Stacy!
Doug, the amount of information you can pack into a video is just amazing!
There amazing 🤩
Awesome as always xxx
Our tomatoes and peppers went CRAZY this past year. So big, so heavily laden with fruit that it took 2 people to harvest. One to hold up the vines and the other to harvest. Learned our lesson on quite a few things this past year! I also made raised beds out of the lumber from our back porch that I tore apart. Maybe not the best choice but there were over 200 boards that needed to be repurposed. I am a repurposing fool!
It's currently winter right now but watching this video gets me all hyped up and ready for the spring! I cannot wait to build my raised garden beds!! Thank you, Doug and Stacy for your tips, tricks, and advice! I cannot thank you both enough...you both have been such an inspiration to me!! God bless you and your family!
I agree I had some raised bed and our garage burned down and my raised beds were destroyed so I have to start over.
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Goodafternoon,
Your are a blessing for all humanity. Thank you so much for all the hard work, dedication and valuble information you provide us, may GOD our father bless you, your wonderful wife and family 🙏
Refreshing to watch someone actually doing the work, rather than talking about possibilities.
Thank you Doug for the valuable tip of using wire type mesh at the bottom of the garden bed, followed by compost. I agree Stacy, organic matter top soil is best. I like the " lasagna method" of layering with branches, green plant waste and scraps; and compost. It keeps my soil stable, nutritious, and the roots well fed. I agree Doug, crop rotation is important for mineral mix. God bless. 😇
great idea putting the hardware cloth in the raised beds!
The general rule for the width of raised beds is that they be no wider than you can reach into the center comfortably. For most women, that's 4 feet wide. If you can't get to both sides, the recommendation is for 3' wide, unless the person taking care of the beds has a longer reach. Your raised beds are so beautiful! They'd be a joy to work!
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I build my beds exactly as you do and I agree that raised beds are fantastic! It's also easy to turn them into hoop houses and protect seedlings from frost
This to me is the best thing video it shows you how to begin your growing your own food. If you don't have a good foundation to anything you do than the end product is not good I cannot wait to make my raised beds. Thank you.
I needed this. We're building 8 new raised beds for Spring, we have too much gravel in our soil in odd places. Tried growing in the ground this year and it was hit or miss with the gravel, but my 2 raised beds did terrific. Rabbit poop is my secret sauce.
First time grower here. I DO NOT like dealing with the weeds. LORD willing, I'll do beds next year.. thank you for all your tips!!!
I'm here because the thumbnail looked like Gandalf giving some gardening tips. It wasn't Gandalf but I still enjoyed it.
Thank you for the diy build and tips! We are planning a big garden in raised boxes. We are going to “Be the store.” 😊 Thank you Heavenly Father for your provisions. 🙏
You both are famous now to me and my husband...I've read some of Joel Salitins books and we went out of our way to go meet him when we were in West Virginia! Wish we could go to your homesteading event.thank you all for the great information you guys are so organized and putting out all that information must be a lot of work! Have a great homesteading day!!
Thanks!
Starting my path to Self Sufficiency. Thank you for leading the way.
I did learn something for sure! I'd love to have raised beds but not possible in my situation, but I just finished a video your wife did showing using pots on my porch which I'm totally going to do. Was happy to hear you are Shabbat keepers, me too. I'm learning so much from both of you, thank you so much! Shalom!
We put wire mesh down first to keep the critters (moles, voles, etc.) from coming up from below.
Yep, I thought was a better idea. I hope Doug sees our comments.
This was very timely, getting ready to jump into raised bed construction. Cedar planks and hardware cloth-as always a huge wealth of information. Thank you Doug and Stacy, Wilber and Margaret-getting very excited about that F150 XLT- Blessings and Grace
Very very informative.....thank you so much!
Excellent video! Thanks for the hardware cloth tip. You are the first person I’ve seen to suggest this and I have watched A LOT of videos on raised bed gardening. I have been doing container gardening and am now interested in branching out into raised beds.
off grid doesn't mean to work harder, smart on power tools and anything else that makes your living easier. thanks for sharing.
I really appreciate everything you guys do. As soon as I’m ready to purchase my supplies, I will use your link, so you guys receive the credit you deserve. Your information is gold.
Thank you so much, love them beds!!!
I absolutely love both of your passion to live one with the land. I have been feeling such a strong pull for 5+ years and soon we will be living our best life, one with nature like you both! THANK YOU!
That was funny, the rooster crowed when you said catching all kind of !!!!
It was perfect timing.
We had to turn our 'in ground' garden into all raised beds because our ground was so full of clay we had no drainage. This year was our best harvest ever! Most of mine are 4' x 8'. Strawberry and asparagus are 4' x 16'
Love the video! I’ve done a lot of raised beds over the years & have been learning how to make our own compost! We have a compost bin for all our leftover foods. We had a little homestead going at our home that we recently had to move from because of the property owner having to pay 87 grand in taxes! We had rabbits and everything! But we had to re home them all & we had to sell all the cages I build for them it really sucked but thing happen for a reason & now my wife and I are saving up to be able to by our own property so we don’t have to rely on anyone else but ourselves!! Thank you for everything you do & praying my wife and I will be able to help more out as you and your wife helps us ❤️❤️
I DID learn something new today, about the hardware cloth. Thank you! I put together one raised bed a couple of years ago. I put down newspaper and cardboard, then put in limbs and sticks that had fallen from my trees. Then I put the compost (from a local company). It has done very well. I have two blueberry bushes and two grapevines in there. They all came back this year. It's the very first time that I have had any luck at all with blueberries. :-) Last year I grew tomatoes and peppers in there, too. This year I have three new raised beds. I already have the limbs and compost to go in there, but looks like I will have to get some hardware cloth to go in first. Thanks again for all of the golden nuggets! God Bless! Carmen
never disappointed watching your videos!!! thanks for caring and sharing!!!
I appreciate the simplistic way you explain how to build and set up your raised beds to help any novice jump right into gardening for the first time.....plus sharing the importance of hardware cloth to keep the critters from digging up the plants root system.
An easier to sqaure corners is to use the 3, 4, 5....on a corner measure 3 units on one end board then 4 units on the adjoining board then connect those two with 5 units (units equal feet) so you make a three four five triangle
40+ years ago I started gardening food. I'm still going at it - I only missed a year of gardening during all those years - I didn't have a home or yard to garden in. I have grown in the ground, and in containers and both. Now that I'm older, I do container gardening. I have been eating kale and spinach since late January this year. I have a lot of herbs seeded and some I'm eating - basil. I have seeds started for tomatoes, radishes, peppers, and peas, and will direct sow green beans, beets, carrots, more lettuces, onions and whatever else I can get growing. We must have green beans, snap peas, tomatoes and carrots no matter what. I personally love radishes. my kids still grab all the snap peas on the vines so I have to plant a lot to make sure I get some. My grandkids love to pick and eat almost everything - dirt and all. I always plant organic beginning to end. I cannot imagine not having my own fresh food. I have preserved the abundance via canning, freezing, brining and fermenting. I have mentored along lots of folks, and will continue to share what I know until I no longer have thoughts. Happy growing and lots of love to you both. thanks for sharing your lives with us.
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We have launched a kitchen gardening course for our teachers.
Can you guide us about it?
Hi Doug & Stacy!!
We decided to go with the houghgaculture for a very large built box about 24' x 5'. We used scrap lumber and placed PVC pipe hoops and placed chicken wire over the hoops. All of this was attached to a frame built the size of the box and attached with conduit pipe brackets. It's a dome over ALL year I can open as we attached hinges we also place heavy gauge plastic for greenhouse effect. We like it but our cute 🐦🕊️🐦 don't! It was so much of a drought I lost some of my ground garden. The mix we did it was soo DRY the ground was cooking and turned everything to a POWDER DEEP into the soil. My grow box did a little better. I like trying different ideas to help with my gardening. I did harvest but rain 🤔 would've made for better. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND INSPIRATION YOU GIVE SO FREELY. JESUS CHRIST GAVE OF HIMSELF TO TEACH THE GOSPEL AND HE SUFFERED AND DIED ON A CROSS FOR ALL OF MANKIND AND WHO WOULD ACCEPT HIM AS SAVIOR. BLESSINGS WITH LOVE TO YOU BOTH♥️🙏👍
I didn’t know about the hardware cloth. Thank you and I was just gonna grow a few things but you guys inspired me to grow a bunch more stuff. Some in pots around the raised garden and around the chicken coop like oregano, mint and lemon balm
Doug, your a trip! I'm glad I watched this. Even a 69 yr old woman can do it. I will need to get someone to bring me dirt.
Doug and stacy my hubby and I love love love your videos!!!!. We are hoping one day to build our own homestead and log cabin to live in and be self sustaining. We are so happy we found your videos. Even our kids enjoy watching how things are done and we have build our own raised garden beds which we have grown our food in and canned for the last 2 summers. We hope one day to as self sustaining as you. Saving up now to buy the land. This year we get our chickens. We only have just u der an acher now. But believe me We take notes on your videos. God bless ya’ll
I'm not sure how I missed this video. I think I've been subscribed to you guys for 2 years. and I try to go through the list and watch all your content. I've never seen this one!😊
Same. I am playing Catch Up!
I like cedar because as it ages it turns a really pretty gray, kind of like us as we get older😆
I love to tour old homes from 1800's even Plymouth Plantation and St. Augustine FL, some late 1600's. I can remember how happy Mom was when a bread truck finally made it out as far as our farm. She was in HEAVEN!
Love raised bed gardening I built 3 of them last season and hopefully building some more this year,your raised beds look fantastic!
❤ thank you Doug and Stacy for all the helpful hints
We're happy to help 👍
Thanks for the tip about the hardware cloth! I'm about to start my first raised bed, and I've been watching videos and taking notes, so I really appreciate the timely tip! Yah bless you and your efforts. Shabbat Shalom! :)
This single lady is doing the pallet potato bed and my son is building me a raised garden bed, from your video. Thank you XO
I just love watching you guys. I learn so much and I find myself smiling through all your videos. Thanks for all the knowledge and joy, I truly appreciate it.
Love your safety shoes Auntie Stacy
There’s a woman after my own heart. Bush jacket, cowgirl hat and sandals ...lol love it Stacy.
Hey Doug & Stacy, just found ya'lls channel, good stuff 👍👍
I have just started gardening again I did it as a child with my Dad. I only planted a couple plants. I planted 1 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, and 1 cherry tomato, 1 cucumber and some herbs such as Basil, English Thyme, Flat Leaf Parsley, Rosemary, and Lemon Sage to see how they grow here in Las Vegas. I am excited and am hoping to make a raised bed but since we don't own our place I need them to be movable so this has given me some great ideas to make them a little smaller so I can eventually take them to their forever home. Thanks I really enjoyed the video. My hope is to be living off grid in 12 years. Thanks... Koko
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC FROM START TO FINISH. *Gratitude*
Great tip about looking for the bow in your boards! Many thanks.
Doug, I really enjoyed this video!!! Thank you so much. Give Stacy my love.
Watching the screws go in as smooth as silk. Meanwhile mines jumping, splitting and I’m cussing a blue streak. Even with wax on them.
Bless you and your drill.
Out of curiosity is it the type of wood, type of drill, or type of nail that would cause a non smooth drill hole?
pilot holes can help a lot. also soap on your screw threads (good on the wax! that should help too), lower your drill speed, go with a higher torque setting if possible, and use the largest driver head that will fit your screw.
pilot holes can definitely help with the splitting, (go with about 2/3- 3/4 the diameter of the screw shaft) and rubbing soap on the screwthreads helps lubricate them going in, if the drill's turning highspeed, if it catches at all it'll slam the driver head against the recess in the screw and jump it out. a lower speed and a higher torque is kinda like using first gear to haul a trailer - might be a bit slower, but you're making steady progress, and the higher torque will cut in better. and the largest driver head that will securely fit eliminates wobble, which can also cause jumping, and is way less likely to strip your screwhead out as well.
I think, at age 52, it's time to think about some good raised beds. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Bro you two are an inspiration to many people who love living off the grid my wife and I love you two thank you for helping countless people be self sufficient ❤️
Planning on doing this this year for the first time. Just got our house built on 6.2 acres. Going to build a greenhouse and chicken coop too. I'm super excited!!! 👏👏👏👏
I was literally just thinking about how to build one if these and your video uploads that second.
haha. my wife was looking at me as I was watching the video.
I've been thinking about raised beds, but didn't know how to start. This helped a lot. ☺️
Bless you for Everything you do to help us ALL XXX
You should do more of these out of all the homestead videos yours I actually learned from.
Thanks!
Cost prohibitive for many but still good info & something to aim for. I have cedar I'm going to cut & have made into planks. I admit tho that my nxt door neighbor runs a small sawmill...otherwise I most likely wouldn't. Cedar is awesome however!
Hey Doug and Stacy I've been watching your guys's videos for a long time now, I've even started my own garden this year and I'm out here in California Central valley Modesto to be exact where it gets really hot out here and my potatoes are doing excellent. that's what I have going in my backyard.The variety of potatoes are Magic molly, Idaho, gold,& red. the slugs and snails try to get into my garden bed consistently so I go out there every morning to defend my food from those pests.
Lol the struggle is real! We appreciate seeing ya and hearing how it's going 👍
We have used raised beds since the mid 70's. There is no other way to get the most for the least work! And we have always thrown sticks and stuff in the bottom to get rid of the mess in our yard but had no idea it actually had a name for it! One year we had a lot of rain and everyone's seeds rotted but our garden did great and was a month ahead of everyone else. They thought we were nuts doing all the work but then they saw our beautiful garden and they had nothing after a month. We changed a lot of minds about raised beds that year. Thanks for all of the info in this video. One thing you didn't talk about is getting the bed level before adding the dirt. That is important for the water to stay where you put it and not drain to one side.
I LEARNED A LOT FROM YOU DOUG... AND MY GRANDPA....
Thanks Jeff
Lots of nuggets Doug! When we rebuild our raised beds the mesh screen will be included. Hoping you and Stacy have a truly blessed Resurrection Day!
I really appreciate the detailed information. When my wife retires in two years, we're bailing from California and we're going to start a homestead. My personality is a big picture kind of guy. I've been a company grade officer but I think like a field grade officer sometimes. That's not always good. LOL
What's worse is that I can f*** up things up that are PFC level. The way you teach and speak here is invaluable. Continuing along the military allegory, you are Master Sergeant or Sergeant Major material. Bless you.
We love raising our own food!!!!!
well because of the lock down iv been making home brew beer ,backing our own bread ,and i kid you not i just made some raised garden beds ,and im about to get my self one of them new flow hives , nothing like fresh honey , my wife and i love your show , thank's
IM ENJOYING YOUR VIDEOS AND NEW TO ALL OF THIS. IVE STARTED FERMENTING THINGS AND PUTTING OTHER TIPS INTO MOTION. I CANT WAIT TO BUILD MY RAISED BED!!! ☀️🥰. THANK YOU!!!
I have always grown in raised beds, every thing is in and growing :-) Give's me great pleasure watching them pop up. I will start pulling my first crop of carrots in 2 weeks/ Kale. I was going to down size this year but instead i have put more raised beds in :-) Take care be safe every one. Oh 1 thing i do is line the box last longer.
Bakercreek is OUR neighbor in Mansfield Mo. Thats where we get alot of OUR seeds. Love the friendly people They are very helpful. Just like you and Stacy.
This video is great feels like he's talking right to you. Learned a lot
Good Video and Advice! I wish I had known this in Salmon, ID. I had huge garden and a passive Solar Greenhouse attached to the house on the South-side. I went to Missoula, Mt and found 55 Gallon Drums for $7 ea, painted Black. They had been filled with Soap liquid at one time. Perfect, I filled them with water from our well; that was our Heat Storage. We Stacked 2 drums high, against the wall of the house. The weather in the Winter got -25 F or lower. Wind chill was -125 F one time or more! Gosh darn, it got Cold there, just like Alaska!
I knew about raised beds, but former husband nixed the idea. (He didn't want to do the work. lol)
My next home will have raised beds for sure. Thank you for your Raised Bed 101, Doug & Stacy!
Doug, you're a great teacher, I got some very useful tips. I've always want to try to grow veggies in a raised bed but wasn't sure how to go about it, your explanation and logical method has encouraged me to try....okay, okay....to at least THINK about trying....hahaha
The folks that brought the frankenvirus currently...have also quietly announced a food shortage in the near future....watching the daily NOAA satellite weather site one can see that THEY are making that a possibility...I know the weather has been cooler and much windier than normally here....My Doug and Stacy "SunOven Special" has finally arrived but I'm afraid the wind is delaying my first "test-drive"...crossing fingers and saying a prayer that I'll be able to utilize God's sunshine gift before my farmer's market vegetables go bad...I think you and Stacy live a noble life...take care and thank you
Saw you dumping that raised bed clear full of your compost mixture and thought, "hasn't Doug heard of Hügelkultur?" I worried for nothing, Doug is way ahead of me. 29:15 Beautiful beds there Doug.
We started putting in our raised beds yesterday. This video's extremely helpful we are going to do the other half for the garden with these tips to day.
We have a dozen horses and have horse manure that is old 10 years old…
Will be using out along with old chicken droppings dirt
I hope this works somewhat. As we are quite nervous about the food situation in the world the way it is right now.
We are hitting gardening hard. growing a lot of seedlings in house to start them out
Trying to front load the food supply as much as possible just don't know what's going to happen
I'm also looking into getting a pressure canner in cased the food crop comes in at the same time
We live in San Diego County. But we live in the country.
One of the best gardens I ever grew was on a weeds I had dug up and put into a long pile. One year I had no manures to put into the garden and not much soil to top it with. What I did that year was put some of our clay soil on top of the dried weeds, which were mostly Canadian thistle and dandelions. I found a bag of peat moss and put it on top of the clay soil. It was only 4 of 5 inches deep. I then planted my garden and it grew so well, I was amazed. I grew on that mound for for or five years before it became flat with no sign of a mound. I was impressed for the good.
I’m seeing a lot of money to set this place up. Even has a Skid steer ( looks like a Cat 246 ,, great machine. ).,,, I’m building my raised beds out of concrete, 16 ft x 3 ft. And 2 ft tall. ..chamfered corners. 8 inch thick. Making 4 beds. This guy is livin a good life.
Super enjoy how ya talk to all of us like family for so many years. Joe n Christina
We are putting our raised beds in today. However, we live a the top of a mountain and our beds are 6'× 3' and we are using pine. Everything has gone up in price so the pine was our only choice. Thank you for all the great information about building raised beds. We woke up to snow last Sunday and we agree it has been crazy weather this year. Have an amazing Easter.
You can use cinderblocks or not what about a dollar and a half apiece to make your raise beds just a thought
Good evening Doug,
Great videos! Sure wish we had taken your route and be living on a farm. Miss the freedom of owning our own home. Had a family of 5 children, beautiful old home, with gardens and enough property to do as we pleased. But all those shoes, and a 100+ yr old home that needed a new roof and a new furnace...well,
Wells Fargo wouldn't work with us in 2006 to refinance, so here we are, now, just the two of us, in a condo. You two are so fortunate, but we know you both worked hard to make it work)
I have to believe, " where there's a will, there's a way". Optimism.
Thanks for the enjoyable videos))
Love all the tips, thanks for sharing. I'm coming to the end of my growing season but I'm still experimenting on ways to grow during the heat of summer here in South Florida.
Love you man.....Giving us 30 years of experience in 30 to 40 minutes....can't beat that. There's NO PRICE you can put on an Education that is 100% Tried, Trued and Proven!! I like watching to refresh my memory....many things we forget as we get caught up in life's bellows and for us living in the suburbs or outskirts of cities, I see your videos as grocery store knowledge waiting to be eaten. That makes no sense -- unless you've done the raised bed stuff -- and have eaten from the efforts of your successes! Thanks man....and Thanks to the Wife (The Boss)!
Pro tip with the hardware cloth. Thanks!
Binging old episodes that came out before I found you guys!! Enjoy all the videos.
In MO too and the weather has made getting started a little tough. We dont have a green house yet so I have the multiple teenagers helping me carry a ridiculous number of seedlings back and forth from every flat surface near a window to outside on pretty days and back again. Lol. Takes a lot of plants for a fam of 10 plus gram'ma!
Like this one. I was ready to turn the ground, but now I'm all in with the raised bed. 10,000 years ago this was beachfront property. Not much more than sand now. Been working on compost for a while now. Believe it's time for a raised bed. Enjoying the content. See yall later.
As my Mama use to say, “You don’t want those raised beds all whompy jawed!!!” 🤣🤣🤣
You are a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for all the tips. As we grow older less bending is appreciated.
Well that's my job today doing the raised beds.
Good info Doug! We appreciate you and Stacy tremendously!!
I ready Doug let’s get stuff done!
I just built my raised bed boxes before I saw your video and I put landscape fabric and chicken wire on the bottom of my boxes..then I saw your posts and I told my wife that you do the exact same thing for keeping the animals out!!
Secret sauce? Blessings to you and Stacy from sunny Anchorage, Alaska!
Hi, neighbor! Anchorage here, too!
Doug wanted to go back to the house where you and Stacy were going to eat dinner. I wanted to see the good chow Stacy was getting on for dinner. Lol 😁👍 good eating my friends, as always thank you for your videos. 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤😁 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸