Helpful and to the point. More videos like this. Thanks.

I can (an do) have a six foot tall fence behind my primary building. (four feet high allowed in front and side yards) I have never had a deer jump over the fence. While they can, I believe they need a running start to do so.

Your melons are not the biggest but they look perky and firm.

Thank you so much for this! I’m building raised bed and we have free compost in my town, I didn’t know if it was okay to use to fill up part of the beds.

I might have missed it, but could you explain how/why you decided to create a passage in the middle of the bed? And did you increase the width of the beds to compensate for the space?

This is super helpful! I had to pause/review the video couple times to read and fully understand the graphs, but now I get it. Are you using some app to make the crop layout plan, or did you come up with the mechanism yourself? Is there a specific sequence of which plant family to grow after which in the same bed to help replenish the soil (I mean things you want to harvest, not cover crops)?

I'm screenshotting so many of your charts and tables! Super helpful.

These weird shape potatoes with the shoots look like bonsai plants! 😅

I love this idea

I have clay and chalk with lots of stone. Kind of challenging growing in it.

This video and the idea are so underrated!

I found your channel after watching gardening videos for a while. You're the first one that made me hit the subscribe button! Great content, detailed explanations, without fuzz and jumping around for the sake of putting up a show. Please keep it up! It's not nerdy. There is audience for your more foundational approach too.

Bunnies? Try predator urine at the outside of the beds and spraying your plants with pepper water. Boil some hot peppers and use the water on the plants. Only you're probably going to net to respray after each good rain.

Looks like a mighty fine build to me. I am just too poor on ss to do such a nice job, lol.

PS: The reason for moving said trellis is to to give about 1 foot space from the edge of the bed and (via t-post) float the cattle panel a few inches from the soil so peas, cucs, whatever can be sown directly under and hand pulling weeds is easier. That 1 foot edge clearance makes it more convenient to plant greens, herbs for repetative leaf harvest without reaching through the fence. That said, a panel directly touching earth or within a bed is a better barrier on outer edges for those rascally rabbits...

Chains. Cool idea. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing. Knock on wood, 'my' rabbits are focusing on the crimsom clover, etc. cover crops (and dandilions) right next to the garden. More problem with squirrels burrying nuts in my bed! One instance last year of a groundhog eating beet leaves. I'm thinking a 10 year rotation might be a bit of over thinking. That said, I probably will fine- tune the placement of one of my 3 cattle panels. If I get to it, need to pry 4 tposts out of clay down deep; tough but not nearly demanding as some shovel/drainage work I desperately need to do!

Awesome

Informative.

Thank You for sharing, it is simple and efective, I am wondering what would happen if you added some rested for a while, but soaken woodchips ????? I know earthworms love them too. I most appreciatte your work.

I have arched cattle Pannel trellis 5 in a row. Looks like 25’ tunnel. Anyway what plant is next to the mini melon? I read melon and cucumber aren’t campions?

Thamks great vedios

You might want to investigate making a thermal mass wall out of water bricks. They are slimmer than barrels.

I see you have a LOT of cynder blocks! Speaking of one's health, is that healthy? Does anything leach out of them blocks that could lead to long term health problems😮?

Thanks a lot well presented. strategies are well explained and illustrated on the graph.

I started with a wood construction for a raised bed and quickly moved to the cement block. I have relocated and am in the process of building new raised beds with cement block now. I have plenty of wood debris to use for fill.

So obviously I am late to this party, but a comment: That is not Corsican mint (Mentha requienii). That is ground ivy/creeping charlie (Glechoma hederacea). It is *extremely* invasive and toxic to many mammals. I have personally been waging a war against it, in a similar vein as your buckthorn problem, for about a year.

I am having excellent success with keeping my garden covered at all times. During the summer, any bare ground is covered with some sort of mulch such as straw, grass clippings, leaves, etc. In the fall I either cover the garden with leaves or a cover crop. Either way, the mulch or cover crop is tilled into the soil each spring. Each year, I find improvements in the soil. The result? Great organic produce. Feed the soil and you'll get healthy plants. Corn with huge 10'+ stalks (that add more organic matter to the soil), tomato plants that can exceed 9'-10'. I love picking a 5 gallon pail of fresh tomatoes-from one plant! Great video!!

Dear GOD WHEN WILL PEOPLE STOP BELIEVING THE TRICHOMES TURN INTO ROOTS!??? Does everyone just believe everything they hear and spread it without actually doing research???? Only the NODES grow into roots and those nodes grow such crappy roots that they barely bring in any water or nutrients and just take energy away from growing the actual true taproots. Ugghhzkd ekdnnsox

You are the first video I’ve watched that actually includes information on why we have to cut it down when it flowers. Thank you.

You are amazing! This is the most helpful video on tomatoes I've seen! Thank you!

I'm keen on doing this, however I have high winds

Thank you for the update. I have enjoyed seeing the process. My husband and I used our leaves last Fall and it worked wonderfully. We didn't chop them up at all and it provided a wonderful cover....kept down the weeds and kept the soil from drying out. Next Fall I believe we will have to chop them up though. A few weeks ago I found a baby snake in the leaves...noticed after I picked it up by mistake ...then saw an adult King Snake last week crawling around. I am in Zone 8b though so a warmer climate. I want to continue to enjoy this soil benefit so I think that will be the solution. There were so many worms and other insects so I believe it was really working. :) Just wanted to throw that out there..not in a negative light ... but just as an FYI if someone lives in a climate like mine.

The city brings me leaves for my garden by the dump truck load. I garden in 50x50 plots. I spread them out across the gardens and chop them down with a riding mower, then till them in. You must get rain, and you must till it in about 4x prior to planting seeds, or it would be too rough. This works really well for anything to be planted around last frost date, as the leaves will be gone by then. I do leave one patch without leaves for the very early spring plantings of radishes, onions, and lettuce as your leaves may not be gone quite yet in early March. But what an excellent amendment for the soil! No chemicals, and free.

I have a 3x6 raised bed and I'm going to plant sugar babies and grow them vertically on a cattle panel trellis. I'd like to plant non-climbing veggies also, either behind or under the arch. Do tou have any suggestions?

Very helpful.

What a wonderful garden! I love the chicken moat but hope it isn't a hawk trough!

Awesome timing, I just had a deer break through my chicken wire fence to get into my garden. Luckily, he must have gotten freaked out enough by knocking into the fence that he ended up not eating anything--though he did crash through another section :/

how about using as Berry Path? Double fences can act as trellis Thanks

You could have saved yourself a lot of expense. Instead of the second fence a simple thin plain wire at chest height to a deer out about 3 foot from the main fence works equally well. It only requires a few steel T posts and one wire. Montana originated this idea years ago. I have used it when planting small fruit trees. Deer hit the wire, cannot see it and get confused.

Wow, that is really cool 😎

This is genius! Thanks for the tips!

very little dark top soil tan sandy with red then red clay past that. Louisiana tan sandy to red sand and orange clay

How did your watermelon turn out?

Love this idea!

Ha, I’m gonna run mine through my cattle feed grinder now, thanks for the video 🪱

This is very useful info. Thanjsy

This helped me a lot!! Especially the cures primarily the H2O2. My tomato seedlings and i thank you.

You shouldn’t use pressure treated lumber in beds that you are growing food in as it leaches chemicals into your food supply. Untreated hemlock or cedar is the best option but more expensive.

I’m curious, you have a 20’ X 20’ plot. But looking from the south you have a 4’ bed, a 3’ path, a 4’ bed which is 11’ so on the North side you have space for another path and a bed. In my garden the noon sun is where your south west is so on my south east I have a path an a garage and to my south corner and south west boundary I have a neighbours garage and a 6’ high fence.to my north west I have a 20’ high conifer hedge that overgrown half my plot. My plan for this year is to cot down the offending hedge to 6’ 8” (all 60’ of boundary ). Then use 28” X 9” concrete blocks on 2 sides of the plot to level the plot and solve a drainage problem, (the neighbours garage base no drain so he ha buried it onto his gravel garden which was laid over plastic sheet) I don’t have to water that part of the garden 🙁. All sides of my veg plot is a 2’ border that is planted with foxgloves, primulas and snapdragons with some marigolds Ansell herbs . I’m on the East side of the Clwyd estuary and we are blessed with April breezes Kathleen being the latest so I’m just wondering where to put a small green house. With luck you may comment on this.