It’s time to fill our raised beds with a “hügelkulture” inspired mix of logs, twigs, sticks, leafs, mulch, soil and compost. To feed the soil, increase moisture retention – and reduce the amount we need to spend on compost – we’re filling our rustic raised beds with all sorts of organic matter before sowing some seeds and planting some plants.
Time will tell if this approach works – and whether our crops produce an abundant harvest or barely grow at all. We love experiments and there’s lots of them happening in this video. Among other things we try: sowing carrots in a bed full of rotten logs and leaves, planting potatoes using the “wrist method”, transplanting strawberries in three different types of garden bed and more. We’ll even outline all the details of what these full raised beds cost.
Join the MAKE. DO. GROW. club for a full project plan for these raised beds and many more practical projects (and recipes) for your home, kitchen or garden:
source
You can very successfully grow potatoes in those compost bags. Harvests are amazing.
Gloves mon brave.
Love to see your initial film from your back lot to what it is today. Fantastic transformation.
Great work!
Hello. This is the first time I watch your videos. Perhaps you can put some strawberries on no-dig soil for the experiment. I used hugelkultur raised bed last year for cherry tomatoes. It has been fantastic. I will prepare another one with the help of one of my sons this year because I am sure it is the best way to recycle old trees components and manure, leaves. It requires too much compost for the upper part of it but it rewards after with a great harvest. Thank you very much. Greetings from the south of Chile
I'm convinced you will harvest lots and lots of good strawberries 🍓🍓🍓
you should have cut the potatoes in half keeping the greens
Well done. Your garden looks good. Water, sun and wearing helps.👍👍
Me encantó encontrarme con tu canal ,podría colocarle traducción en castellano, saludos desde Santiago de Chile.
Actually, clay contains a lot of nutrients. It just holds water and suffocates the roots of your plants if it's too dense. But mixing a bit in with your soil would probably add some minerals that would really benefit your garden!
How about a cow or two to eat the grass and give you manure?
nice big cat litter trays…………………..
Starting raised beds so glad to see your ideas for filing them, Can't wait to get started. Wish me luck.
🌟👍🍀💐
Clay has a ton of minerals. Use it instead of rock dust.
The orange trees are so beautiful!
Brilliant idea – great to have all the background bird song too
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
100% free and enjoyable like your videos guys. Thank you.best from France.
You owe your Eco and Beyond community a reason about the dormant channel. Don't ghost your subscribers. On a positive note, you and Kylie are married. She was always referred to your partner on your E&B channel.
Awesome 😁
You are using the wrong bedding technique for the area your in. You are using raised growing areas above the water level. This style is for areas with high rain fall and high water table. Your in the exact opposite landscape. You should be planting below grade in pits that allow excess water to feed into the growing area.
Have a look at the book Rainwater Harvesting by Brad Lancaster. Your roof drainage is being wasted whereas is could feed your gardens with it.
So that path you were talking about digging up under those trellises are you going to remove the trellises?? I bet something beautiful will be growing on those things this year..I would love to have those in my garden as I have visions of Wisteria, Lilacs etc..lol. You guys are such a hard working couple and you get so much done the place is looking really great..
I'm beginning to appreciate your "orange problem" lol. So many oranges.
Why did you abandon the other channel?
Rule of thumb: Carbon needs enough nitrogen to decompose WITHOUT extracting to much nitrogen from your available nitrogen in your topsoil, otherwise it will compete with your veggies for nitrogen. Solution: Put a lot of stable (urinated on indoors by cattle)manure on the bottom layer of old wood (carbon) before applying the rest of your top layers …. (sidenote: deteriorating old natural wood is releasing some carbon too already in the period before you have been collecting it. So that counts too probably for determining the ideal C/N ratio while adding manure) You have a beautiful project with really nice video's, fun to watch ! Best blessings & good luck to both!😄🌸👍
Love watching your garden! You have a huge variety of veggies, but on your list you didn’t mention string beans. I grew up in Porto, my father rented a small Quinta so much like yours even the house! We always had lots of green beans (flat pod), onions, potatoes, lettuces, tomatoes, squashes, but we were not very successful with carrots and peppers! I emigrated to Canada when I got married and miss spending time in the garden. Canadian winters are too long, gardening season too short. Looking forward to visiting Portugal this June and spend some gardening time with my 91 year old dad.
Great video again – helps 'translate' the theory into pragmatic practice for me.
Was it filmed during the 'Sahara dust' period we had a couple of weeks back? Very yellow on my screen 🤪