Raised Bed Regrets? Honest Review After 1 Year.
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The way you began this video blessed my soul! I was overwhelmed with emotion, love for my Jesus!! Thank you for sharing the love of Christ!!
I echo your words. I became emotional at the truth and wisdom, but more the expression of the love of our Father and King of kings. How wise He is.
❤❤❤❤❤
Love your videos!!! ... SO informative, spiritual, & interestingly-FUN to watch❣️‼️❣️
I love the beautiful ways you are introducing your videos lately. Love the sweet talk of what God does and the gentle music. Thank you.
Amen!!
@@jeanmullins3284yes indeed
Me too! LTH is, in my opinion in the top three of my favorite YT channels. Could honestly be my most favorite homestead channel.
What an absolutely BEAUTIFUL intro to your video. Praise God and all He has created.
The intro was beautiful, Sarah! It is so true! We here in Michigan are feeling the same. Ready for things to slow down and enjoy the change in seasons. Have a blessed day!
Thank you for the beautiful introduction.
May our Heavenly Father protect you and Bless you.❤
Loved that gratitude starting off.
I loved your intro this morning. Giving praise to the Lord on your channel.
Beautiful beautiful Intro. So relaxing with my morning coffee and thanking god
almighty for the Harvest
The sun setting and then rising on a frost was a really cool affect!
Due to back issues, we’ve gone to raised beds. We’re using the huge feed tubs that we get free from a friend, which is a real blessing! Thank you for so many great gardening ideas and for sharing your faith in Jesus!
We started with 2, 75 gallon stock tanks and now have 6. They are up off of the ground and few inches to aid in drainage and there is zero bending over! A great back saver and so easy to keep a few stray weeds under control. I still plant tomatoes and peppers in the ground, but everything else is tank farmed! Highly recommend!
An amazing introduction!
That was a beautiful intro Sarah and Kevin, such a blessing to hear. Thanks for sharing with us , this was a great video. Stay safe and keep up the fun you all have. Fred.
Thank you. Sara. What a perfect reminder of who is always responsible. God Bless you!
What a beautiful start!
I live in a small town. I do not have the tiller to till an unground garden and at 60 I do not have the gumption to dig it by hand. I have 2 3X6 ft raised bed that I plant for fresh eating mainly. Although, I did get enough tomatoes this year to actually can some pizza sauce and tomato soup. I had 4 plants. I planted 2 zucchini plants in the corner and trained them to trail outside the bed and they provided me with all the zucchini I wanted and I shared some too. In the 2nd bed I planted peppers with butternut squash in 2 corners. I again trained them to vine outside the bed. Worked great and I enjoyed watching it all grow and spread.
I have had lots of experience with in ground gardens, but I have never used a raised bed. What I would love about the raised bed would be less weed maintenance and easier harvest. I do agree with you about growing sweet corn simply because it takes a lot of corn to turn out enough at harvest time, but sweet corn is one of the vegetables I love most. You just can't buy that taste in a store. Love you guys.
I loved your opening comments.
❤I bought one a few months ago for our bug out land. Have not set up yet but glad to have it on hand. Bought one for a friend to help them for more harvest next year. Thanks for the code. GOD Bless
What an Amazing opening. It was beautiful and inspirational, almost surreal in a true calming way. It’s hard to express what I felt in the moment. Your of love for Jesus, WOW. Thank you for sharing the love of Christ!! Then Kevin “The Tomato Whisper” comes into the picture, I enjoy his “T’s” along with shared knowledge and humor. Thank you both for making these videos and experiences.
Loved your sunrise footage.❤❤❤
We have a combination of raised beds, grow bags, hay bale gardening, and large pots. We don’t grow anything in ground anymore. But we are 68 and 70 so….getting up from the ground and the weeding for in ground gardening was enough to make us quit. lol
Kevin’s demonstration a few years ago on the watering system he was using on your raised pots sent us in the right direction. This year we finally have everything on a drip system, like yours. What a blessing. This has saved us both time and water! No more hand watering. 🎉
I am definitely a container and raised bed gardener. Here in Texas our soil is very clay, plus I needed a way to keep my dogs from peeing on my veggies 😜
Amen to the clay soil. I'm on the coast, and grow almost everything in mineral tubs or Earth Boxes. It seems to be the best way to manage water. We're either flooding or bone dry.
I'm in Texas too, black gumbo clay soil. I use wicking tubs mostly and lots of big containers
After years of fighting (and losing) the battles of root knot nematodes, neighbor's tree roots, moles and voles, along with age and a bad back, I switched to Earthboxes in 2020. I was very pleased with the results and now have nine. They sit on a dedicated area covered with weed fabric, three rows of three boxes each. There are t-posts at the end of each row, topped with PVC fittings holding a metal pipe to hold a trellis for climbing plants. No weeding, no fertilizing except for the initial addition to the potting mix at the beginning of each season, no flooding, no drought situation, just water through the fill tube once a day, easy peasey (still sometimes have to deal with some pests and disease, though). It's a small garden compared to many people, but it's sufficient for the two of us.
The prairie voles alone are reason enough for such s set-up. A local orchardist told me that most mold-type diseases come from rain and hail, so covering plants and watering them as you do can help
Your beginning was so wonderful. Thank you.
I live in Canada in zone 4b. I have been growing successfully in metal raised beds for three years. When I put my 14 raised beds together I placed old logs and brush, chicken bedding etc. in the bottom as a hugelkultur bed. I generally do not water these beds unless we have gone several weeks with no rain. This has been the most stress free and enjoyable gardening that I have ever done! I even grow trellised butternut squash, small watermelon and luffa among other things.
I would highly recommend growing in this way. Weeds really are kept to a minimum and are very managable even sitting from a chair beside the bed!
Beautiful video.
Thank you for today’s video and thank you God for your unfailing love
I think your outdoor garden system is a dream! I also love your greenhouse set-up.
I love the woven ground cover!! That along with our raised beds makes things sooo much easier, and neater!! Cleanup is fast - leaf blower and a broom. Yes you do have to water everyday with raised beds but like you said - "no flooding". Sad that it's the end of the gardening days. Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
I'm finding I like my raised beds and container gardening most. I don't have to worry about getting into the garden due to rain and slop in the spring. I can get things started much sooner.
We bought the same raised beds as you did, after watching your video last year. We love them, our soil is terrible so they really did make gardening better this year. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thinking back i don't believe I've ever heard someone say " I can't wait to be able to spend the day on my hands and knees pulling weeds but maybe I've not been paying attention.
Beautiful intro. Brought peace to my soul.
Yes God knows we need to slow down!
To keep weeds out of my raised beds I put a thick layer of straw or leaves on my beds. This has helped me greatly
Thank you for giving God the glory for the seasons.
It's so nice to see you guys happy and content at the end of the summer gardening season. The last couple off years have been rough in your garden and it showed by the end of summer. Made my heart ache to see you looking like you just wanted to be done with it already and I feared you might not even want to tackle it again in the spring. But you always bounced back with new plans to improve things and I think the two of you have done it. The outdoor garden has finally been conquered! Congratulations and Blessings be upon your Homestead always. 🙏❤🕊
I totally agree☝️… I loved 🥰 the way you started the video… brought me to tears 😭… Praise God 🙏
We are in MO also and fortunately did not have the frost that you all did. We will have a couple more weeks of harvesting. This year I added 12 raised beds to the main garden and absolutely loved them. Compared to the in ground beds, we did not have the weed pressure or maintenance in these new raised beds. Looking forward I can see that we’ll always have in ground beds for the potatoes and tomatoes. Potatoes because we like to till the soil to make it loose and can’t do that in raised beds… as for tomatoes, we’ll continue to put them in the ground because they grow so tall not to mention that we grow a lot of tomatoes (100+)!!! Love your vids! Thanks for all you do ❤️
Like most everyone I appreciate your video openings.
My raised beds are waist high so I can continue gardening as I age. Having the plants higher makes it easier to monitor the plants. My only advice is to be careful of your dirt. I got manure from a farm that I thought was fully composted but it had weed seeds. But the weeds were easier to pull in a raised bed.
God bless.
This was interesting. Glad you liked the raised bed growing. Hope the next year is even better. Hearts and flowers coming your way. ❤️💐
Love the wat you introduced your video so peaceful. I'm over 70 years old and don't garden like I use to but I do have a couple of raised beds and for me they are the best for harvesting and planting. Thank you for sharing your information
Really well done introduction, beautiful! Seriously considering raised bed starting this next year. We are in our 60's and this would definitely help.
use raised beds as the soil i have is decomposed granite - no much can grow other than succulents :) - followed your method for adding watering systems - thank you for posting the materials - it was a timesaver! blessings to all. looking forward to seeing more awesome tips from team Living Traditions.
Great video! Loved how you explained the rest and the harvest being over. I can certainly relate, definitely getting tired! Thank you! ❤
I had been using 9 wooden raised beds I built a few years ago. They worked OK but as I have a back issue, they became too shallow. I replaced them with 13 metal raised beds. I got them on Amazon. They are only a few inches taller, but it makes a huge difference. I too have not seen any rust or other issues with them. I am a raised bed fan from now on.
I use the tubs (a lot of them) after seeing your video setting up your greenhouse. Mine are outside. I have essentially NO soil. Just glacial cement and tree roots. The metal, open bottom, would not work in my yard due to fact of tree roots that will rob any raised beds and would not sit level. So I'm grateful I saw your tub gardening cause it solved most of the problems I have which is glacial cement, rain, and terribly uneven huge roots and old stumps. Tubs kinda camouflage the problems and gives me enough gardening choices I did not have before.
Thank you Sarah for your words of wisdom! May God bless you two!
As a raised bed gardener, mulching will help conserve water & keep the soil moist. Also, as the compost continues to break down, the soil will better retain moisture.
I was just saying the other day. The old i have gotten the more i enjoy each season and what they are for.
Excellent opening and so very true, had some similar feelings and thoughts of gratefulness this past week. I do a combination of raised beds and the pattern of trellising and weed block you had used in the prior garden you had at your old farm house. I am pretty satisfied yet I need to utilize the field and get some pumpkins to grow it has been a struggle to get them growing strong, the bugs get them . Thank you for all you have shared and the encouragement and guidance you have taken extra time out to help those a bit taken back and afraid of what is going on presently in the political realm and in the food industry.
I appreciate you remaining steady and putting out healthy informative and encouraging post.
With you doing the black covering and the small-width raised beds - these are the best for a raised bed/flatlander growing of the vine varieties. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, gourd, cucumbers, Armenians, watermelon, melons, pumpkins .... You grow and allow (and even pull out) the vines from the raised bed to overhang onto the black covering. This allows maximum growth of the vines, more planting for higher production, outward grown flowers for easy bee pollination, and a ground surface for the large melons/squash/gourd/pumpkins, ... while the tubers grow in the raised bed.
- IF - one wanted to do raised bed and vertical or pergola gardening, then one could (with proper hammocking of the large melon/gourd/squash/pumpkin fruits) grown up the cattle fencing. All is good. Stringing up the potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, tomatoes, small squash, small gourds, zucchini, cucumber, Armenians gives more growing space for larger production. The vines get more sunlight as well. The same applies to the smaller squash/gourds and cucumbers/Armenians/eggplants. The larger squash (winter squash, large gourds) you either hammock on the fencing or grow outwards on the ground. In this you could have both upward vertical growing for smaller fruiting vines, while the heavier and larger fruits could grow outward on the ground.
- IF - one INTER-GROWS berry vines over the top of the pergola, with the viney vegetables on the sides of the cattle fencing, one gets the best of both growing options. But, don't grow berry vines with the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, chili, pepper, eggplant). The vines provide the overhead shading against the insane noon day heat and UV, while the vertical veggie foliage protects the bare vertical berry vine trunks from sun scorching where they have no foliage. Just like corn/squash/beans, each provides a blessing to the other vegetable.
As said, with pergola vertical and overhead growing, one can double-row crop vegs on both sides of the vertical cattle fencing - and vines up and over the outside of the pergola. An outside row can grow the larger sun-loving, high foliage plants with the larger fruits, while the inside and shaded row has the half-sun, half-shade smaller vegs growing in semi-shading. Again, the overhead with outside row growing vines provides greater sunlight for their berry production, while they provide the overhead noon shading for both the outside row of vertical sun-loving and inside row of half-sun/half-shaded vegs.
Good morning. The opening was beautiful and inspirational. I grew in raised beds for the first time this year as well. They are wooden as I used what I had to construct them. They made a world of difference for all the reasons you listed. I did have some weeds even though I have ground cover and cardboard but that was my fault. I used some topsoil from the farm as a first layer to fill the beds, then topped with well composted matter. That crab grass is relentless.
I have been gifted a 32x90' greenhouse and am in the planning stage on how to best step it up. 1st thing will be the ground cover, then as I am 68 now, I am considering elevated beds. It came with some metal and wooded racks that are 2' high and I'm considering building the beds on top of them to bring the soil up to about hip high. I have a lot to think about.
Lovely, dreamy,
frosty beginning to your video! Good work. Thank you.
My entire small garden is in raised beds as well. We built in a new edition and terrible sod was placed over who knows what kind of ground. We are in Florida so tends to be very sandy down here. I just think raised beds look cleaner and easier to control the soil health. You are correct about additional watering.
love the poem, like u said everything needs rest
Growing peppers very close in a raised bed is a must for me. I can't get them to fruit heavily any other way. Potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, herbs, beans, peas and tomatoes also do best in a raised bed for me. But I still plant corn, okra squashes, melons and cantaloupe in the ground. I had to put a cattle panel w/chicken wire fence around my garden because my chickens free range. I discovered melons, cantaloupe and vine squash loved the fence, so all those will be grown on perimeter fence and cattle panel trellises from now on.
Great review. I’ve kind of stopped watching because I’m not interested in buying all those raised beds, it’s a huge investment if you’re not a RUclipsr being supplied with products, also seems like a huge waste of space. The heat from all that black fabric and metal beds has to really dry things out, huge use of water, here in the north that black fabric in rows is good because we need the heat. I live in a pine forest and have terrible soil but over the years I have added manure and compost so it’s better, I just like my plants to get nutrients from the earth and not a chemical. The weed solution seems great but I live with it.
I’m glad you are happy with it because that’s slot to set up, I’m getting old but I’m still a lover of in ground gardens !
Blessings and may the Lord bring needed rest and a renewed energy for spring ❤
I'm glad y'all love the raised beds. You could always have a dedicated vining garden.
Beautiful start ❤
Loved, your intro. Montana here and we got our first hard frost
I love the beautiful intro to this video
I have a mix of raised beds (4x8 and 4x12 32 and 17" high), grow bags (1,5,10,20, and 30gallon), containers, greenstalk towers, and in-ground plots (each 6' wide with various lengths).. and I love them all for different garden items. I love pouring my potatoes out of my 20 and 30 gallon grow bags onto a tarp... huge yields and easy upkeep. Then I use them for cold crops in the fall and winter. I use the plots for melons and squash and they are my most challenging areas to keep productive and weeded. I usually give up on the weeds by August. I have a giant 8 panel cattle panel tunnel that's 9' wide... we put woven landscape fabric all around it and the grass encroached, came up through the weave... so we are building raised beds to wrap the touch points this winter. It worked well until it didn't. My favorite is the raised beds. We've been struggling to get compost by the ton where we live and that's been a frustrating aspect of getting them filled and topped off. But they are a dream to grow in. Super easy to maintain. Great for most of our crops. The only thing I use smaller grow bags for is overwintered peppers. But the larger ones are great for things you might not want to get soaked in a long rain because they can be moved. Things like delicate flowers and herbs that can't take subtropical storms or tomatoes that you love the flavor but crack after a strong rain. I just move them in a 10 gallon grow bag under the deck or porch or house awning. They tend to need more watering during dry spells though and I found setting them in planter dishes help alot to bottom water and retain nutrients. Culinary herbs, lettuce and radishes are the only thing I grow in my towers. I found my strawberries just stay too small and don't overwinter well in them in my climate. Yeah... the things we keep adding more of is raised beds at tall heights. And more and more we seem to transition our ground plots into perennial beds...mostly berries and self-seeding medicinal flowers and herbs. This year we ended up training our melons and very large tromboncino squash over grape arbor style heavy duty trellis and grew the plants in 20/30 gallon grow bags. I gave up on corn years ago... no point because every farm around me grows GMOs. ❤
Idea for your okra…slice, put in a freezer bag with dry ranch dressing mix and shake well. Freeze dry and enjoy! SOOOO good!! Even people who don’t like okra like these.
Love your beginning to the video.
The intro was beautiful, God bless 🙏 and thank you for sharing the discount code!!
the first time i used the area behind my house, I wasnt sure if it was ideal. So I used cardboard boxes to grow things. This worked out well to let me know just how the area was for growing veg. The next year I started doing some raised beds in there. This year I did permanent raised beds and with the combination of new soil and the dry heat we had nothing did well, but I know next year will be better.
so wish we could build green houses around our regular houses like they do in sweden.
We found our perennials such as strawberries, aspargus, and garlic did not winter well in our raised beds as roots froze and thawed during winter. We are in zone 3-4. We ended up needing to stack straw bales around those raised beds to protect the roots. Other than that, we love our raised beds.
We do raised beds, most are pretty tall. We both have/ had knee issues. If it weren't for raised beds we prob couldn't have a large garden. We have one area for in-ground plants. I want to get mineral tubs to plant more individual plantings. Your intro was wonderful.
We grow corn in raised beds and we just have extra beds just for corn and that works well for us.
What A beautiful way to begin this video! A great reminder of God's perfect timing.
We changed our garden over to These raise beds also these spring. Bye to all the rain this spring we didn’t get in as early as I wanted to be ( mid June ugh). Plus had a
But of issues.with soil we used also. But I. The end we still ended with a good year . And I love the fact I could go to the garden and never had mud to deal with. Love the fabric under them. No much for weeds and you could control them a bed at a time. I love my raise beds. I don’t have the watering system yet but it’s in the times to come. We pretty much did same as you but did a few 4 ‘ wide. One for onions one for bean. That worked great.
Wow what an intro! ❤
What I enjoy most is watching you guys! Beautiful intro, praise God!
Yes! God gives us rest yearly but also weekly. The 7th day is the Sabbath, in it we are to rest, put work aside and spend time with him. He is good
We have been enjoying a snowstorm for the last few days here in Yukon Canada 😂
Wow well said! Perfect music to those thoughts!
I put in 3 raised beds and had a real problem. It wasn't until I moved the to a better place that I learned why. I used the wrong soil and it turned to cement. So when I moved them I remedied that problem.
Well done!
Biggest issue with container gardening is how they dry out so fast, also sometimes the outside air can rapidly change temperatures to roots
I have moved to a small apartment with no garden as it's on the first floor, BUT is has a huge wooden deck looking out over a forrest and I am planning to put containers on the deck as well as hang planters over the edge of the ballustrade. I have gaedened in raised beds before and loved it and planters to me, are just small raised beds
Consider adding bio char to your raised beds for moisture retention. Even could make it yourself, cheaply
Here in our part of Michigan we plant in the ground. However, im realky thinking of planting strawberries in a raised bed. Also some of hubby's mints could use a raised bed. We picked all the tomatoes yesterday, so the only things left are carrots and potatoes. Snow fence goes up today.
AT MY AGE RAISED BEDS ARE THE ONLY WAY TO GO, YES CORN AND MELONS AND PUMPKINS NEED TO BE IN THE GROUND. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
Definitely share more of your love of Jesus. Such a beautiful intro.
i have been a raised bed gardener for years now clear back to the square foot gardening days. I love it wouldn't do it any other way now. i am older and getting up and down takes a bit more work these days. my beds are 4x12. i grow my melons pumpkins ect in ground however i have decided to just do personal size now and pie pumpkins and will go to a raised bed trellis system like i do for cucumbers. And i dont plant sweet corn anymore. if i want corn on the cob i go to an amish stand and buy what i will eat. I also no longer preserve corn i just dont eat it much now. every fall i buy a case of organic from the store and thats all i need. lol. thats another thing i like about my raised beds its easier to expand the foods i do eat more of while cutting back on the things i dont and since i am no longer putting up 100 jars of corn green beans beets ect every year i have added to my herbs and flowers. and they are much easier to take care of.to be honest when i started doing raised beds i thought i was really being dumb that i would not like it ect ect but boy was I wrong.
I like a mix of both raised and in ground beds. Green beans take up a lot of room if you grow in quantity and grow for drying. So I don’t picture ever raising green beans exclusively in raised beds. I also grow a lot of peas and that would take way to many raised beds to grow them all. Kale and Swiss chard do fine in ground for me too. We happen to be blessed with really fertile soil where we are in New Hampshire (although we have our share of rocks).
Thank you for another great video 🙏
One thing I never see anyone address in videos, and especially in light of recent storm damage and prepping videos, is about water. While many of us have wells, many just have small water pressure tanks which hold maybe 100 gallons. With 2 adults, cows, pigs, chickens, a garden, fruit and nut trees - water is vital. 100 gallons will barely last 1 day. Now, we live in Texas where heat and scarcity of water is a more daily pressing issue. In light of that, one of the first things we did was add a 3,000 gallon water holding tank. This gives us 4-6 weeks of safe water supply if our well pump dies. Running your well pump constantly wears it out quickly. So ours runs longer, but less frequently, so it will likely last longer. Also, because the water is already above ground, pumping to the house and garden takes much less energy. A single 2KW battery will power the delivery pump for 2 weeks of normal usage. So if we lose power, while the well pump won't work, we never lose access to water.
I love these videos, with the music and scenery! This year I tried the weed fabric on the ground, burn the holes, etc. I have the irrigation system. But we live in Greenville NC and in our yard we have clay. We have added gypsum, compost, top soil, things to lighten up the soil. I thought it would be ok. No rain we can water, but in July we got over 15 inches of rain. Tomatoes started dying, root rot I believe. Peppers were drooping they were so wet. Then it starting drying out, I trimmed the peppers (tomatoes were done) and they are doing better, but now frost time is coming in early November. I think I am going to plug some holes in the fabric, and get some raised beds, kind of do a mix. I am just trying to figure out how tall to make the beds, 17 or 32. I am 60 so trying to think ahead!
We did raised beds first time this year. 2 hours north of you and the weeds didn’t come thru. But we did layer the bottom with cardboard first
A beautiful video💕💕💕💕Always great information 👍👍👍👍
Cost is the biggest issue I think. Most of the pre-made beds are more than building and maintaining ones you make yourself. I prefer the ground, but we do have literal dirt, not soil, here in the low desert. Supposedly has high salt in it too. In the ground is much easier to keep moist too. Ive done pots,
I didnt like that as they are too heavy to move around. And again, harder to keep moist and mulched. Making a greenhouse soon. Will decide what to do in the mean time. Maybe test a few ideas out. See which works best. Thanks for video!
I really appreciate you two and your videos.
Do you think that you would ever cover your weed cloth with mulch to make the cloth last longer.
I loved the frosty beginning and your thoughts about it. ❤
Thank you for sharing your research.
I have both raised beds and in ground beds. I find a purpose for both since we have good in ground soil and don't have the challenges of rocks and invasive weeds. The problem we have with raised beds for growing perennials is the fact that the soil settles and I have to remove them and refurbish the soil with amendments. They dry out too fast and require more watering. Overall, with my experience I would prefer in ground over raised beds. We even tried growing in the weed barriers with deWalt landscape fabric and it was more of a pain to pull it up all the time to amend the soil every year. I can control the weeds by using a drip irrigation that is directed on the plants and I'm not watering between the rows so the weeds are more manageable and I only weed around the plants and not in the rows so much. I have found that if you don't use cover crops to protect the soil and enrich it, the alternative would be weed fabric to suppress weeds and protect the soil when nothing is growing. Still we have to remove it in the spring, drop a load of dairy compost and incorporate it into the soil. The soil should never be bare because that just encourages weeds in the spring. Either plant a cover crop or cover it up with DeWalt landscape fabric. If you are elderly and disabled, use the raised beds but just plan on watering a lot more and adding more fertilizer. That's my two cents worth.
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Great video as always. Thx! Have you guys done a video describing your wildlife pests?
Beautiful video❤
Do you have any plans to enrich the soil during the winter for next year's planting in the raised beds, like Cereal rye or crimson clover. Rabbit and Quail manure would do wonders for the bacterial in the soil and also the earth worms. That would be a nice video of preparing the soil now for planting next spring.