How to Fill a Deep Raised Bed | Hugelkultur style raised bed gardening
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- How to Fill a Deep Raised Bed. Hugelkultur style raised bed gardening. With Erica from Erica's Little Welsh Garden / @ericaslittlewelshgarden
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
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Agreed
Nice one ladies!
Hi Liz, Love your content and channel! I garden in Long Island, NY and have masses of rabbits in the garden. I built raised beds last year that are 14 inches high (36 cm)...that seems to keep them out. The other thing I have found is if there is something they like to eat more than the veg you are growing they will focus on that. For me it is clover...the grass on my property is filled with clover, in fact it is more clover than grass lol. This keeps the bunnies super happy and fed, which makes me happy. They are adorable and it is so nice to coexist.I am inspired to get a tall raised bed like you just showed us! thanks Liz and Erica!
We used weed suppression fabric on the bottom of the whole garden space, built the beds, then filled the area between the beds with gravel. We also built tall fencing with 4 x 4 posts and chicken wire around the perimeter. Deer and rabbits destroyed previous garden attempts. This year, we have our best ever garden!
All the hard work that you’re doing will pay off in the coming years, Liz! It’s amazing that you have such a wonderful friend to help you along.
I would recommend that you walk on it, in order to push everything down as tight as possible 😊
Hop on the mower, cut some weeds, and put in it too. Prune whatever you need pruning around the place and add to it too. You will be surprised what materials you can use. Be creative at what goes down the bottom. You can pile weeds and prunings as a base then add the trunks and other woody materials, the leaves, horse manure, chook, sheep whatever around before adding your growing medium.
You two did a great job filling that up. I tell ya, this is going to be addictive...bed 2 in the near future LOL
Bed 2 is waiting to be constructed. I'm reminded of the need to build it every time I leave the house. It's just sitting there in it's box daring me to ignore it for another day - so far I've managed to be occupied by other tasks, but it's due to rain tomorrow, so maybe I'll tackle it then.
@@LizZorab LOL. am being silly, having those raised beds is wonderful. You got all winter to fill them up ready for next spring. Pace yourself out, you two just moved and settling on your new farm. I love what you're doing to get a garden going. It's encouraging and inspiring. I do get lazy as I downplay moments when depression kicks in. Every garden trick and tip helps to remind me why I love gardening. I look forward to your next updates,...cheers! :)
I also put a fine iron mesh first to make it more difficult for rabbits, mice etc.. to come in the raised bed from the bottom
I place mesh under all of my beds now. My first one has moles living in the wood (which may be what's contributing to the sinkage) under the soil. So far, my other beds (with mesh) haven't been bothered by any critters. And they are only half the height as my first bed.
We have horsetail, so I first put down a double layer of cardboard, then the mesh, then about half to one inch of newspaper (it helps hold down the mesh while filling the bed), then the soil with all of its amendments. I love that freshly finished look.
Erica you tube channel good for learning about gardening too
Love your channel and Erica is a star
A good idea for you for all the jobs that you need help with could be to have a sort of open day where your local subs could come along and meet you and help out. x
i would love some of these they look really smart for the garden
I hope you and Erica had a lovely cup of tea after that hard work . I love the raised bed, you’ll have huge carrots 🥕 🥕 if they go in there. Looking forward to an update . I hope it rained there xx 💖
I leave at least a foot above the wood for topsoil. And I leave the top of the topsoil at least 3-4 inches below the rim of the raised bed. That allows one to add new compost every year to refresh the bed.
In the background there are loads of nettles, you could have cut them and put a large layer under the compost. they rot into good compost
Good to see you both again
Thank you!
@@LizZorab good to see you together. Years of experience plus new ideas. Winner
I had three of those beds half that height her no cross pieces to get in the way, in Australia which I lasagna filling it cost a fortune and took time, the next year my beds were dropped to 6 inch yes 6 inches. It actually turned me off. I later learnt that you fill half with gravel it the like
I only brought one with me to our down sizer but haven’t filled it yet. Good luck with yours.
I’m in northern NSW & have three the height of Liz’s (as well as 9 lower ones) without cross pieces, have been in the same spot for probably 10 years or more now & they are still like new. Some gravel went in the bottom too.
Glad Erica was there to help you, good job girls
I really enjoyed this video. Hugelkulter- style gardening is such a great way to fill beds.
Earlier this year we filled some old, 70 cm deep water tanks (given to us by a plumber) with turves that we had stacked after planting some fruit trees. On top of the turves we added lots of rough, semi-composted goat bedding and soft leaf weeds from our compost bins. Then we added a layer of cardboard and finally some bought compost to a depth of about 20 cm. The tomatillos we planted in them are thriving, and we bought far less compost than if we’d just filled it with bought stuff. 😊
Great episode! There’s a podcast called Joe Gardener from the US that does a little dive into hugelkulture, episode 213. Discusses the layering method to help prevent gaps so soil doesn’t slip down too much.
Great advice April, I'll have to check out the podcast, thanks for watching.
I met a man locally who did this on the side of a hill where he has land is is growing herbs. He started off digging the ground out and then filling it with logs and back filling with soil. There is a fancy name for this process but I can’t remember. Might be swales. He did it to aid with less watering and to feed the herbs long term as the wood rots.
Loved this one 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤗🤗🤗🤗
We made raised beds last winter and filled by with trunks, all sorts of organic matter. My lovely husband left all the acorns in the bottom never thinking the will grow up in five feet deep. 😖😝😫😫😫😫 we have an oak tree nursery. The roots are 5-6 ft long. We packed each layer with chicken coop wood chips, grass, card board and paper. If packed well no cave ins. Others not packed well we go sink holes. Still as wood breaks down ( tree trunks) always need to top off with good compost. Good luck I love mine made out of cinder blocks. Pack the lower layers in tight. We transplanted old climbing roses in two bed and I am getting a second flush of blooms. That has NEVER happened before.
Years ago at a talk on rose culture to a gardening group, one of the owners from Jackson and Perkins told us roses love a shovel full of manure, and maybe some bone meal, every year or so! Often, had hear of someone giving the neglected rose that's been struggling to a neighbor, who dogs a nice hole, piles in some good soil (and manure!) And viola! The next year it's thriving and covered with flowers! Her suggested avoiding that by providing fertility along the way!
We'd read on an old gardening book the suggestion to plant a new rose after making chicken soup, and burying the bones and fat in the hole first - so have done that for years! When topped with a shovel full of manure, and then the rose planted, I've never had problems with critters bothering the planting!
I have a lot of wood lying around in the garden, I think I will redo one of my high raised garden beds and clean up the garden at the same time.
Liz we put mole mesh at the bottom of our because we got invaded by molesso this would do for rabbits too.
I love these beds, I have done since I first watched Mark's channel. They are perfect for people who aren't quite as bendy as others. I am really hoping to get a couple when we move which will make life so much easier.
I hope it will discourage your Rabbits. However Rabbits can jump over a meter high, so you may have to go higher.
I have these beds in Australia. Mine are 98cm high and I love them, as I have a bad back and can rest on it with my left hand while gardening with my right 😁
Mark on Self sufficient Me in Australia has these raised beds. I think they'll be good for you.
my first deep beds, when i had the allotment, were more then half filled with old bark chippings. the soil for topping up came from the used tomato pots etc. ( it was near the end of the season when i built them.) i had mostly deep beds but they weren't made in the same year. ( would have been very difficult to fill. ) these were built pre- wheelchair days.................brian
I have 3 raised metal beds and they are so nice to have. Two are 2 feet high and one is 1 foot high. What I did is save the soil from the old vegetable patch. Then filled up the new ones with logs, sticks, garden debris, straw and then the soil mixed with compost, sand and a bit of organic fertilizer. All the vegetables are doing fine even with the cold spring here in Vancouver island BC, Canada. Thanks for your fine videos!
Raised beds are fantastic. My Grandparents always did it that was over 80 years.
I've always done it.
Just makes Sense.
I have the VidaXL beds. I've had them since the beginning of the season and just be wary of a couple of things - I don't think they're as good a quality of the Birdies Beds you see on RUclips. The bolts are already rusting. Also, they're a bit of a pain to put together because every panel comes backed in a sort of shrink wrap plastic. Where each panel meets, they're also rarely level and they can be a bit of a hazard - I've had many scratches and cuts from them this season.
Thanks for your feedback on these beds David. I decided to leave the plastic film on the panels (lazy gardener), interesting that the bolts are going rusty, I'd expect them to last longer before that happened. And I've already decided to buy some car trim to put around the top to try to prevent scratching myself on the corners of the panels. It might be worth you dropping them a quick letter to let them know about the bolts, they may just need to use different material for them.
Thanks for the name drop and for the tips!
Great video fella, just found you and have subbed! Am building my raised hugel6beds now.
I also bought one of those raised beds inspired by Self Sufficient Me. However, it got stuck in that canal mess where the container ship was turned sideways. I ordered it and paid for it almost 4 months ago?🤔. So sad as now we are into August and it still isn’t here and have no clue to where it is 😢. Hopefully I will have it for next year ? 😢😩. Love your videos Liz! 💜💜💜
Oh no! Alice I'm so sorry to read that your raised bed got stuck in the canal incident. Fingers crossed that it arrives with you soon.
@@LizZorab That is my hope as well. Thank you Liz. Love your videos 💜💜💜
@@LizZorab I am still waiting for my bed, but at least I heard it’s in the states now! That’s exciting for me! Lol 💜💜💜
I noticed Mark Valencia from Self Sufficient Me over filled the beds to allow for some settling. 👍
I left it to settle and be rained on for a couple of days before I added more compost (I had to head out and buy it first!).
Lovely little vid. Thanks to the both of you. About to buy some tall Birdies beds here in NZ!!
Erica is just lovely ...definitely found a new follower :) we have bunnies too ( I'm in Australia) my beds are not that high probably 30 cm deep I usually sit a piece of wire over the bed to protect my seedlings. So far so good :)
Awesome! Thank you! Erica is lovely!
My best raised garden areas are large cattle tanks, but we had rabbits nests in them twice. They dug down in the dirt and when Spring came and I was tending to the beds I almost dug up baby rabbit nests. The mama's can jump pretty high.
Very interesting, I have only "half read" articles on this gardening method so far I must get myself up to speed and learn about it. I do have a compost heap at the back of my plot with a double layer of logs in it, but I doubt it is suitable for use as it is where I put all my nasty weed roots, doc, nettle, bramble etc. Water retention in soil is something that will concern all of us more as global warming gets worse. Nice to see you both toeether also...Steve...😃
Thanks Steve. We have moved to a very wet area, where there is a high rainfall. Most of our smallholding has drainage channels to take the large volume of water away from it. I will be working on ways to have controlled watering from rainfall in our gardens.
Hi Liz, I have the same raised beds in my garden. It's a good idea to leave the compost about 5" below the top of the bed to give new plants a bit of wind protection. It is the one thing I'm finding I don't like about deep raised beds, they are very exposed to wind.
Where did you buy yours from? The link attached to this video does not work, I would love to get some but just cannot seems to find any.
I wonder if you could have had a delivery of topsoil brought in. Not thinking in sacks but on a trailer. We did this some thirty years ago when creating our raised beds. It would have been useful to mix in with the shop bought compost on the top layer. Fascinating watch, thank you.
Wow! That is one HUGE raised bed! But it looks like it’ll work brilliantly. Loved the video and it was great watching the two of working away… that took some amount of filling! 😃
Thanks for the tips putting together thirteen raised beds. The metal ones.
Great job planting using raise bed..
Use your manure hill in the layers it is perfect if your pumpkins are growing in it.
I would love a few of these beds as it's hard to keep weeds from invading my current raised beds (not very tall). Also, maybe these would keep the slugs out since they're metal and high-sided. Plus, my aching back would appreciate them!
I love the hugelkultur method. After your video from a few years ago I decided to try a hugelkultur bed and so far I've raised potatoes, garlic, sunflowers, and am currently raising beets in it. Great video! Love both you ladies.
This was a superb tutorial. Great method.
Thank you! Cheers!
Great to see you Liz. That was really hard work but I am sure it is worthwhile doing. Good to have a friend like Erica close to you. Wishing you and Mr J every success.
Margaret in sweltering Cyprus
Hi Margaret, can you send a little of your sunshine our way please? It's been nice for the last couple of days, but we are now due to have wet weather again.
Another good idea and very informative let’s hope it keeps the bunny rabbits out!!
Liz, you have inspired me to try this with some old livestock tanks. I have tons of wood lying around! . I think I will put them in my cattle panel greenhouse here in Colorado.
Dont know how i missed this one but caught up now. great video and that should keep the rabbits off
Thanks Tony. It was so fiddly to put together but I think it's worth the effort.
I had a hip replacement last year and got my hubs to build me 3- 27" X 3 1/2 ' X 12'. We did this method also, we used our North Carolina red dirt (not clay) to backfill the beds around the logs because that dirt also holds moisture and finished the beds with bought compost. My regret is that I didn't supervise enough and he failed to put up any support on the sides so the 12' is starting to bow a bit but so far it is still working very well. I used a garden seat on wheels this spring to weed the beds since as luck would have it I had shoulder surgery in March. The height worked very well for easy weeding. I must say it didn't work for the okra because it grew so tall I needed the hubs to cut it because I wasn't going to use a ladder to harvest.🤣😂 I will add that having a tractor with a front bucket made filling them easier.
good video
That's one heck of a raised bed, I've done something similar in the polytunnel using roofing sheets. Hope it works well for you. All the best Nige
Looks great another pair of hands always make the work go faster.
All of our 2yr old raised beds are done this way but made using chestnut boards that we had milled, if you can, the addition of composting worms really helps these along, the 6 x 20ft by 5ft beds we added worms to are a good year ahead in productivity and nutrient balance.
There were masses of worms in the composting manure that we put into the bed.
Fun video how to Jill! Thanks and things look great!
Wow what a good idea. Hope you get a good crop of carrots from this bed. Heading over now to Erica's channel on your recommendation. Thanks Liz and happy gardening!
Awesome! Thank you!
I have a friend who's thinking of a tall raised bed kit she found at Costco in the US ... I've suggested she begin collecting soil from the gopher hills on her property, and lots of wood scraps for hugelkulture in the bottom!! I've made a couple of beds in damaged wading pools, and used branches and dried blackberry brambles in the bottom of one. Gary of Robbie and Gary lines his with landscape plastic, to extend the life of the pools in their hot LA summers.
Good video for learning about gardening .
Good neighbours
Great video! Really useful information. We have some lower raised beds like Erica’s but we are hoping to get some taller ones when we move to our own place. Look forward to seeing how this goes. 👍
Water the layers really well before cover with compost.
Yes the layers were watered and we've had plenty of rain too.
interesting, have you thoughtof wickerbeds? They are cheaper than metal ones and evenmore eco friendly evenif they dotke a little longer to make.
I suspect wicker beds would rot pretty quickly in the very rainy and damp climate here. They look great though.
I have my eye on these EXACT beds for my new garden. The garden needs some trees and hedges removed, which is ideal, instant logs and branches to fill the beds.
I have a 3 ft high raised bed and lots of rabbits in my yard. I have no issues with rabbits in my garden. They also leave my 7 gallon grow bags alone. Z6b USA.
I love seeing the two of you working together. My two favorite gardening ladies in one episode!
My heugleculture bed sunk A LOT this season. Last fall, after harvesting, I built it up to the top, but when it was time to plant in my seedlings (THIS season), it had sunk down another 3-4 inches. No root crops in that bed this year. After this harvest I will build it up again AND have reserves on hand to top it off in the spring. I believe my wood is rotting down faster than I expected.
Brilliant motivating video. You make it look so doable. I was inspired to use your link to buy 4 beds and to save up for more, little realising that these would soon be discontinued. I'm heartbroken as my veggie garden is less than half finished. Does anyone know of another source for these fabulous beds?
Oh no! I didn't realise that they were discontinuing them. I'll see if I can find out a different supplier.
I wonder if a thick layer of sand would work well to fill in around the wood.
Great episode, are they made as good as Birdies raised bed as they last for years Erika
Hey Liz, I noticed on this video and some of your recent ones the frame rate seems a bit off, like the footage is very choppy. This could be something to do with the frame rate of the camera, or the editing project, or the export. Otherwise great video as ever!
What do you mean by choppy? Is it just that I'm zooming in and out or is it during a scene?
@@LizZorab it's in most of the video so not just zooming in and out, it's like there are less frames per second then there should be, or something similar.
Ooooh great video both, I've been ogling those raised beds on self sufficient me, they look great.... Hmmm may need to consult the bank account! 😂
Liz what are those raised beds like. I saw a few reviews that put me off. I wanted the Birdies ones that Mark has but they are ridiculously expensive in the UK. Cheers
Hi Steve, I'm happy with them. I might add a bit of rubber car trim around the top of them to stop there being any sharp corners. I will do a review of them in a few months time when the Welsh mountain winter has chucked some weather at it!
I had the same problem with the level dropping very quickly.
I do something very similar to this where all sorts of matter goes in the bottom but I call it my "Chuck it all in" bed cos I can't say, -Hergelfergelcurgel , Herglyferglyculutre, Huggelfuggelcuggel- , Hugelkultur😂
I'm jolly impressed that you found the crossing out the writing thingy though - took me ages to find that!
@Liz Zorab - Byther Farm So *I guess* _you found_ *bold* & _italic_ -two- too LOL
They look good. Just fill them up with anything organic you got. Wood,compost,manure,grass clippings,dead bodies,whoops.Ok anything organic is good lol
All very nice but seems an expensive way of gardening to me.
Yes there is a cost involved, but given that I've always gardened on a shoestring, it's nice to be able to show something different for a change.
@@LizZorab Fair enough but I could not bring myself to invest hundreds of pounds which will never be able to be recouped in my lifetime (hopefully several decades) from the crops I grow using it. There is also a sustainability issue as the product has a large carbon footprint.
How about making some high raised beds using pallets!
That is exactly how I made the raised beds in our last home. I don't have access to lots of pallets at the moment - once I've found a local business who can sell and deliver them at a reasonable cost, I might do that again. In the meantime, I'm having great fun with these metal beds 😃
The channel Dirtpatcheaven has some really good raised beds that will be rabbit proof xxx
I watch lots of Julianne's videos, she has a great channel!
Do you know anything about the colour of these raised beds?
I know pale colours reflect light is that the intention here so that plant roots don't get cooked?
I have just started a rescued steel water tank!
They come in green or grey. I preferred the green as we already have lots of steel metal and I wanted something different.
I want to use one for planting bamboo
Hi, just need a bit of advice on filling my 15 inch raised beds, I
Was told not to put nitrogen in with carbon as it will heat up and act like a compost heap and the nitrogen will burn the veg, I can get chicken poo mixed with straw and horse muck rotted down or fresh.
My question is will that be ok to add to my beds.
Would love it if I could get a reply as I love your videos.
Many thanks
Good idea if you have the cash and a flat garden. I have neither. 😭 It would allow the rest of the garden to stay a bit wild, which is nice for the wildlife. I fill my old wooden raised beds lasagna style. They do however attract slugs. Pros and cons I guess.
I know a man who has tons of the same corrugated metal, although not painted. He lives on an old farm so I wonder if you are the DIY type, the metal would be cheaper from a supplier of farm products. I think his must have been pen sides, or feed box sides. Same set up with different sized flat bits and corners and holes pre drilled. Sadly he isn’t interested in getting rid of his.
What is the material of your raised bed? I am in Canada and I am wondering if there is a coating on the inside of that material to keep it from rusting?
It's a metal bed with powder enamel coating to prevent it from rusting. However, I know that they do rust over time.
thats so cool what size bed is this one in the video id like to get one :)
hi there the link for the raised bed doesn't seem to work could you please provide an uptodate link please id really love to get a raised bed like this
Here's my affiliate link www.vegega.com/?ref=Dcdr0FmX and if you use the LIZZORAB you should also get a 10% discount. Although the prices show in dollars on the site, you can select UK, EU or US warehouse for the products available in your country.
I remember the first time I was going to fill my first raised beds and soon realised that a lorry load would be needed. I spent a lot of time gathering bucket fulls of earth from all over including the woods. Best job for rabbits is fencing. They are unpredictable and their populations explode suddenly and will break your heart. We have very few for the moment because some horrible disease killed them all. But they will be back with a vengeance.
maybe make biochar from the wood instead, oil drum retort could increase productivity.
Excellent video Liz and good to see Erica too. Love 🥰 both your channels and learn from both of you.
Thanks so much! I really couldn't have filled that bed in one day without Erica's help (I don't like to tell her that I have three more to build and fill!).
The link to buy this no longer works, do you have the company name?
Hi, you can now buy metal raised beds from my lovely friend Huw Richards. huwsgarden.com/en-gb He sells to UK and USA.
@@LizZorab Thank you, for your reply, had a quick look, he only seems to sell the shorter ones. I have arthritis in both knees, I am looking for a taller raised bed so very little knee work is required. Thanks again.
What was the full size of the bin you demonstrated...length and width? I heard you say it was 81cms high.
This one is 240cms long, 80cms wide and 81cms high
It's interessting to listen und to unterstand why for me as a German the titel of the video makes no sence.
In German the difference of a Hochbeet (high bed (raised bed )) in oppisite of a Hügelbeet (hill bed) is not the filling but simply the wooden sides (or what ever material you want) on a Hochbeet and no sides for a Hügelbeet. The Hügelbeet offers you more growing surface, but you can't build it as high as a Hochbeet.
Any other way of filling a Hochbeet is a waste of time and resources.
Beds just one pice of wood above the ground are simply Beete (beds) in german and not Hochbeete since the wood is mainly used for greating permanent pathways. They are not popular in Germany anyway. The most common way of gardening is to dig and build your beds and pathes new every year. Other ways are Reihenmischkultur (row mix culture) or a mix of everything.
I have lived and gardened in Garmany for 20 years and Hochbeete, high raised beds, are actually very popular and common here in southern Germany. The key to a Hügelbeet is not simply the mounded form, it is the logs in the middle that soak up water and release moisture and nutrients slowly. So Liz is doing a hybrid between Hochbeet and Hügelbeet, and the addition of logs and woody material justifies the Hügelbeet description.
@@louiseanderwin1 Well in my area (countryside in South West Germany) Hochbeete are mostly used by people who want here and there a head of salad a Zucchini or Tomato, but not by people who whant to be more self sufficant in the traditional (historical way) in none of these gardens here you will find a single Hochbeet.
In the backyards of homes yes, but, as I sad, not for growing more than just a view things. Having so much space like the German youtube gardener Rigotti is in most parts of Germany quite rare. He obviously can play with different methods.
And no, the method you described to fill the Hügelbeet is the same for a Hochbeet. That's the way it's explained in ALL my garden books and magazines of the last 50 years.
Because why should one change it? Why should one fill the beds different since the composting part wich generates heat, wich helps to grow things earlier, and nutritions is the basic idea of both varieties. By the way you DON'T need logs. You just use whats in your garden or what you can get (for free!!), the thicker the wood the longer it takes to compost, the longer the Hügelbeet exists and the Hochbeet does not need to be refilled.
I have a very nice run of recycled metal garage doors for hugleculture raised beds. Free if you know where to look ten cut so the nice ridged edges form the top lip. I also dig out a fair amount of soil before putting the logs in so I can put the original soil back nearer a top layer. I love the results of hugleculture. Thanks for such a fab video.
Sounds great and a clever way to recycle stuff.