Hi Steve, Wonderful tour of your end of the summer garden. I love your new raised garden. It's going to be put to good use next spring ❤ Take care ❤Peggy❤
The growing season is wrapping up here with the final stage being the planting of the cover crops. Won't be long before I put the beds to sleep for the winter. Thanks for watching Peggy.
New wood bed is looking good Steve. Have you ever thought about putting some type of brace on the wood bed (similar to vego bed) to help with it bowing out?I’m perfectly fine getting whatever color bed to save some money. That is a huge raised garden bed. Good idea leaving the barrier down.
I drove 16 inch PT wooden stakes in on both sides from the center of the bed. I spaced them 2 ft from the center. That will keep the sides from bowing out. Plus having metal mending plates on the inside and outside of the boards should help also. I'm not sure yet what I will plant in the new metal raised bed but I have all winter to think about it. 😀
Very Nice! I should have planted a cover crop in my garlic bed too. Never. thought about that. Just don't know that much about the different types of cover crops. I'm nervous about putting in something invasive. My goodness that is one huge raised Vego-bed. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Understandable about being nervous when it comes to using cover crops. I like using buckwheat because it grows fast and winter kills in my zone 5 garden. It's also easy to terminate since it does not have hard or fiberious stems. For more info on cover crops, Jesse at No-Till Growers has quite a few videos on the topic. He operates on a small commercial scale but the information still applies to our backyard gardens. Thanks for watching Jeanne.
Nice buy. You can try a diakon radish in it to see how long of a root you will get. I grew one many years ago and it had a root over a foot long. I am waiting for a frost before I see if I have potatoes in my 2 egg crates. Wishing you a happy harvest on your potatoes.
The new bed is certainly tall enough to allow for some long diakons. My potato harvest turned out ok this year. I will need to do more amending of the soil in the root pouches next year. Thanks for watching Tom.
There is a miniature corn that matures in 45 days. I gave a pack to the neighbors and they harvested it from a mid July planting. Small ears, about half the size of the regular corn but sweet they told me. They harvested 8 ears yesterday.
Nice. The ears sound about the size of the Japanese hullless popcorn ears. I put down buckwheat seed in the last corn bed yesterday. That will run for the next 30 to 40 days then I will put the bed to sleep for the winter.
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Hi Steve,
Wonderful tour of your end of the summer garden.
I love your new raised garden. It's going to be put to good use next spring ❤
Take care
❤Peggy❤
The growing season is wrapping up here with the final stage being the planting of the cover crops. Won't be long before I put the beds to sleep for the winter. Thanks for watching Peggy.
Great potato harvest.
That new bed will be perfect. No bending is best, you'll appreciate that decision when your my age🥰
The tall beds are really nice. I have the strawberries in a bed just like the new one, which makes for easy picking. Thanks for watching Robin.
Great jump start on your cover crops, Steve. No naked soil! 😉
~ Sandra
Keeping the soil active and adding organic matter. Thanks for watching Sandra
New wood bed is looking good Steve. Have you ever thought about putting some type of brace on the wood bed (similar to vego bed) to help with it bowing out?I’m perfectly fine getting whatever color bed to save some money. That is a huge raised garden bed. Good idea leaving the barrier down.
I drove 16 inch PT wooden stakes in on both sides from the center of the bed. I spaced them 2 ft from the center. That will keep the sides from bowing out. Plus having metal mending plates on the inside and outside of the boards should help also. I'm not sure yet what I will plant in the new metal raised bed but I have all winter to think about it. 😀
Hellooooooooo, Steve!!!
Very Nice! I should have planted a cover crop in my garlic bed too. Never. thought about that. Just don't know that much about the different types of cover crops. I'm nervous about putting in something invasive. My goodness that is one huge raised Vego-bed. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Understandable about being nervous when it comes to using cover crops. I like using buckwheat because it grows fast and winter kills in my zone 5 garden. It's also easy to terminate since it does not have hard or fiberious stems. For more info on cover crops, Jesse at No-Till Growers has quite a few videos on the topic. He operates on a small commercial scale but the information still applies to our backyard gardens. Thanks for watching Jeanne.
Nice buy. You can try a diakon radish in it to see how long of a root you will get. I grew one many years ago and it had a root over a foot long. I am waiting for a frost before I see if I have potatoes in my 2 egg crates. Wishing you a happy harvest on your potatoes.
The new bed is certainly tall enough to allow for some long diakons. My potato harvest turned out ok this year. I will need to do more amending of the soil in the root pouches next year. Thanks for watching Tom.
There is a miniature corn that matures in 45 days. I gave a pack to the neighbors and they harvested it from a mid July planting. Small ears, about half the size of the regular corn but sweet they told me. They harvested 8 ears yesterday.
Nice. The ears sound about the size of the Japanese hullless popcorn ears. I put down buckwheat seed in the last corn bed yesterday. That will run for the next 30 to 40 days then I will put the bed to sleep for the winter.