Raised Bed Gardens...Ideas, help, tips and tricks! Start living sustainably!

[@yohjokromwood2327]

raise bads arent the good way to grow you dont even have proper hand tools to garden lmao

[@watcherofwatchers]

There are many good ways to garden, and raised beds are among them. Your preferred way is not the only way.

[@meme4one]

Raised beds are very good, they mean you don't have to dig down deep into the soil to refresh it and you don't have to break your back bending over to weed or Harvest them. Very practical actually.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I'll let your comment speak for itself....Not really sure what the motivation is here...you do understand that I didn't take every tool out of my tool shed to put dirt in raised beds right? I'll let my followers help you with your comment

[@LanceSheppard]

I've been growing in raised beds for years. I harvest the best crop from my raised beds vs traditional gardening methods. How do you have proper gardening tools? I've used deer antlers for garden tools and other deer/ cow bones.

[@laurenceburnham1028]

It ain't what you got it's the way that you use it.

[@ggs918]

We are lucky to get the leaf compost for free! I’ve learned pruning tomatoes makes for a better crop. I also typically pinch off the lower leaves and bury as deep as possible since tomatoes are technically a vine. Makes for a better root base. Wooooooooo!

[@Lowzone73]

absolutely and gives the tomato plant more stability. Pinch back as the plant grows! we get "mulch" here in NJ for free from the town also. Its actually almost top soil

[@paulgamblin1860]

I love raised beds. Helps my back. Less weeds, too. As far as tomatoes go, it doesn't hurt to plant the transplant super deep. Roots will grow all along the stem where it meets the soil, which will help the plant take up more moisture and nutrients.

[@littlemogocreek]

Right back on the tractor Josh, awesome. Thanks brother, keep up the good work. Can't wait to see those vegi's grow.

[@bcgrittner8076]

Those vegetables should thrive in the raised gardens. My six inch high raised gardens do very well with flowers - not so well with vegetable seeds. The compost we got at the site had plastic toys, plastic bags, etc. We just needed to dig deeper in the pile. Combined with some composted manure our flowers did very well.

[@dougdavis4439]

Love the raised beds. Nice to be able to use your own lumber! Those are much more manageable and easier on the back! Enjoyed it Josh! Wooooo!

[@meme4one]

Nice work, in my little English garden I have the same set up but also with onions, potatoes and rocket. I've got a small watering system that turns it self on for 15 mins every other day as I will normally forget to water it myself 😂

[@victorflores9790]

Love that raised bed garden!

[@jamestrimble5680]

Awesome. I built raised beds the last couple of years and love it. Way easier to take care of and weed.

[@kdkracing4746]

Glad to see some "Better Boys" goin into the ground. Hamburgers and BLT's will be delicious~!

[@wilfredbott5061]

Love your raised beds, you did a great job of making and filling them.

[@jims3650]

I put a little epson salt around my a few times a year and they really grow.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Yep Mg helps

[@l.w.bryant1979]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer espon salt can be used around fig bushes also ..my brother used to do gardening and other yard work for a unmarried retired school teacher for years up until she died a few years ago and she used Epson salt. If do any potatoes, you can add the 20 mule team borax around them...they love borax. My great grandmother's father was a short Irishman that came from Ireland to US to an Irish settelment in Arkansas with nothing and that what he did for a living of was a 20 mule team driver. I got family in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and mostly mainly here in NC on my dad side family. On my mom's side it's of NY(landed in new York from Scotland and Ireland), Maryland, Kentucky and NC. Boths side of my family are Irish and Scottish mixed

[@billwilliams9527]

I love 'raised planting' concept, and the organics for rooting. You are gonna have el mucho tomatoes.

[@rogerdue85]

I like raised beds. We went with wicking tubs, working great.

[@eddeetz493]

If you throw down cardboard over the sawdust in the walkways next Year it will be worm castings. Make a bulk run for used coffee grounds free at every coffee shop or restaurant. Toss those on the ground with the sawdust. Instant worm farm. Use in the bottom of the beds also. With the pastures improving will you buy hay or make your own on farm? A South facing greenhouse on the side of the shop that can be heated or cooled with geothermal 6" abs buried pipe, a wood boiler, solar and wind turbine with battery backup. Plan roofs for solar production. One day your tractors and cars will be electric.

[@annettemillette4091]

Lovely black soil, crops will be beautiful

[@johnnycampbell5234]

I love the idea of raised garden beds, I may try one just for tomatoes and peppers this year. Better get on it!

[@notsure7874]

If you're short on black gold, you can fill the bottom up with brush, and logs, non pressure treated wood scrap - and get it where the top foot or so is all you have to really fill up with the good stuff.

[@ProjectsWithPaul]

The raised beds look awesome!

[@holdenv8superstar]

I had to empty & refill my parents raised garden bed a couple of weeks ago. They moved into their brand new house a couple of years ago & they got a raised garden bed. When they built it they took the cheap way out, filled it with Sandy loam & threw a bag of mulch over the top🤦🏼‍♂️. Dad did try & grow some carrots, tomatoes & some other stuff in it but with no result. So I dug it all out, went down to the local Sand & Metal depot and got a ute load of Premium Garden & Veggie soil. I know where the term “black gold” comes from now. It was steaming when I shoveled it out. I’m confident they’re going to have a ripper of a veggie patch this season.

[@david.6040]

Compost looks great

[@natevanlandingham1945]

Usually they tell you to pick the lower leaves off and then put like 1/3 of that stem in the ground with it to get more rooting area.

[@RickyVentures]

Hello from Minnesota!

[@jeffblack2014]

Josh you should have planted those tomatoes super deep!! The stem will put off roots and it’ll get more moisture and nutrients!

[@petermavus4131]

Those tomato 🍅 plants love that humidity

[@Fawn62312]

Looks great! Your boards are beautiful, too!

[@Will7981]

Raised beds are the way to go in my opinion. Especially in a wet climate like North Carolina can be. The reason I say that is they drain well. So, if you get a lot of rain, your tomatoes don't rot like they might would in a field. Plus for a tall person you don't have to break your back. Lol.

[@christinashawgo6510]

Love it‼️ I get buckets of that black gold any time I want it from our compost dump. Gibson county Indiana

[@ronniepate4315]

After about 3 days when those plants adjust to their new home . They will blast off with new growth . Love those raised beds .

[@dc0145a]

I've never done raised beds; thinking may try at my parent's house - make things a little easier for em. My main vege garden is 32 x 55; weed fabric and drip irrigation life saver. Can't wait to see how these gardens do for you :) My tomatoes struggle with early blight, septoria leaf spot ugh. Located NH growing Pruden's Purple, Amish Paste, Wisconsin 55, Sun Gold, Siletz and Momotaro this year. Heading out (in the rain) to tie up these girls - growing like weeds literally. Happy 4th Josh.

[@markshechter8473]

I built some raised beds like that for some grapes and berries. I tacked hardware cloth to the bottom to keep the moles out.

[@angelicwolf909]

I'm call BS on that compost. Heard it's better anyway. Dunno. Squeeze squeeze pat pat. Learned something today! Thanks for the video. FYI I'm sending links to your channel to a few people I know ... they too love your vids in case you wonder.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

lol...hmm Bs on the compost eh lol

[@paulgamblin1860]

I like the hat. And basal cell carcinoma (or any skin cancer for that matter) is no fun. I always wear a broad brimmed hat when working outdoors.

[@johnppg]

Those are some Nice Bed’s.. 👍🏻👍🏻 up...

[@chelemichele1524]

Nice start to your garden.. Have a good day 🌷🌷🌷

[@kevinroberts2014]

We have your President here in Cornwall!. G7 Good work Josh

[@brianparker9924]

I built one the same way. I put branches and crap in the bottom so I wouldn't have to get as much soil.

[@danshouseofsmokeandoutdoor7119]

Good video them are some nice beds. I use raised bed. It so rocky here in ground garden don’t work out to well for root crops.

[@LanceSheppard]

Josh I've plowed,disced gardens. Tilled, and even layed plastic mulch with drip line irrigation. Raised beds are still my favorite. I fill mine with cow manure soil from the dairy farm. And then put leaves and top with free wood chips. I would recommend maybe placing a cattle panel arch in between the boxes for a nice trellis

[@deborahwade8485]

Already harvesting tomatoes and cucumbers and a few onions in our raised bed here in Texas . With all th rain squash didn’t make it!

[@davidmack7018]

Josh, Hi Ya braugh ! Blessed day to you my brother. Love your Vlogs, Always in my prayers straw hat great for sunshine. Yep Totally agree. Best David

[@susanm5692]

I have tractor envy! Perfect size for a small homestead.

[@JamesSmith-wc5nv]

Looks great! We do raised bed up here in NH where we can be hard pressed to find anything but rock. Granite State for a reason! We did same size but used 2×12 rough sawn hemlock from a local Sawyer.

[@makingawesome8730]

I have searched with words combined in every way I could think of to try to find examples of people who used their sawmill to build raised beds with green white oak lumber. And now you have posted a video. Bless you. Still at the beginning I'm hoping you discuss how long you expect these to last before rotting. Did you avoid all the sap wood and only use heart wood?

[@royfrady8219]

Combining aspects of hugelkultur and traditional layering. I am not home to take care of the garden at the moment. Fortunately, the rain is doing its part.

[@midwayfarms]

Like those beds but I still like the old ways

[@eatportchops]

The deeper you plant the Tomatoes the better. They will get roots on the stem.

[@jjacres129]

The little hairs on the stem will grow out to be roots

[@brandonalsabrook3446]

Very good work. Good looking compost. If you know someone with horses use their manure. It's sterile from grass/ weed seeds. Don't forget to put on that parking brake when getting things out of truck with equipment, save that transmission. Also snip off the lower limbs on tomatoes when planting, they wont produce anything and just consume energy trying to grow.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

bad thing about horse hay...most horse hay has been sprayed for weeds....broadleaf weeds..like tomatoes...that stuff passes through the animal and into the manure

[@brandonalsabrook3446]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I could see that depending on the application rate, type of herbicide used, and how often field is sprayed. I've never had an issue and when I use it I can barely keep up with picking veggies out of the garden.

[@thomasyerbey337]

Great video Josh 🇺🇲 WOOOOOO 🇺🇲

[@americanman9297]

I have an area that I cleared that is perfect for a raspberry patch. I've looked everywhere and all the plants I've found are at least a year away from fruiting or out of stock. I saw your field when you did the video on blackberry jam. If you have a few raspberry plants you need to sell I'd love to buy them from you. All I ask is 1)thornless 2)ever bearing (if possible) and 3) fruit this year. I know dormancy is ending soon so I hope you see this right away. Thanks for the videos and I hope you can help!

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

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[@____________________________.x]

Check out "companion plants" for your beds, they help repel pests, like for tomatoes add in some amaranth, basil, borage, garlic and marigolds

[@jasonsnyder7327]

Live in El Paso, TX. Wish I had a place to buy compost in bulk. Been looking. Nowhere to be found. Have to resort to buying bag soil for my raised beds. Getting too expensive. Great Video!!

[@rados5334]

You could put more rows into those raised beds. It looks like beds that big can hold more than 2 x 4.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

understand that these plants will be huge buddy....I could cram more into the box, but would I be producing more fruit/veggi? Probably not

[@dhansonranch]

Looking good! I totally get the weeds getting away from a person - I am thinking fencing off that dirt pile for the chickens might be a plan - deal with some of that rag weed before it goes to seed. LOL. I just got the garden in this morning!

[@jalopyjoe4483]

Was hear. Woooo!

[@stephaniewilson3955]

I have used such stuff. The really hot-composted stuff destroys pesticides/hebicides so there should be no problems. I would loosen up roots when they are root-bound like that to encourage them to spread out.

[@trellenrussey8432]

Mmm a tip I found out the hard way...don't plant your regular bell peppers anywhere near any hot ones...you'll have spicy bells!!

[@RebekahTOUCHEDBYYARN]

Great video thank you

[@Jim-Pilgrim]

We have raised beds made from brick. I am disabled, so can get all round the beds.

[@Lowzone73]

much easier to attach chicken wire/fencing to keep the deer/ground hogs out as well. More secure attaching the poles to the 2x12s then digging post holes.

[@ReefMimic]

Would cedar be a better wood for longevity? Less rot No gopher mesh for the bottom as a preventative?

[@lordexmouth1217]

Just flexing your wealth with all those 2x12's aren't you? lol

[@ericbarnes9303]

I want to do the same Josh with the raised beds

[@grantdean10]

Man I am jealous of your saw mill... I cannot have one - no space - stay in a complex and not on a beautiful farm... would love to do the raised bed idea....

[@notsure7874]

Do containers if that's all you got room for. Use vertical space as best as you can too. Depending on where its put, an indeterminant tomato in a container that grows along a balcony rail or fence can produce pretty much constantly for a good while without really taking up that much "dirt space". My friend lived in a camper and grew in pots, it worked out great. I think we're all jealous of his saw mill :D

[@larryparish5984]

Screw a couple of 2X2's at each end of your tomato beds & tie some twine horizontally over your plants about 5-6' up. About one line every 18" or so should be good to train your plants to grow upwards. And don't forget to prune the tomato plants of their suckers & low hanging branches as they will suck needed nutrients that should be going to the fruit.

[@jasonmckee5030]

Just curious to which state you are gardening in? Love your videos!

[@maryandrews2265]

How did you keep the deer out Josh?

[@ellpee43]

Hi, dada.

[@willisdockery3972]

Allgood

[@Farm_fab]

One of the problems with using leaf compost is that it might not be sterilized and bring with it weed seeds.

[@brandonburdette7895]

Whoever is playing that instrument on that song that you got playing Josh is awesome great raised beds by the way that must be maybe a violin or maybe a fiddle I don't know but anyway sounds great

[@reesvalleyranch3933]

Been there man when it’s so hot I’m on my second pair of clothes

[@ReefMimic]

Horse poop has to six for 6 months because it’s so hot. Or you can turn it every other day. I had 8 foot tomatoes, they love horse poop

[@williamweller7428]

🤩🤩

[@BUD100ify]

Raised beds are good for bad backs.

[@notsure7874]

Raised beds, or tall plants!

[@stevenjones2097]

I compost my own leaves.

[@JSomerled]

That compost is Dirt Cheap lol… good stuff.. Are you going to have a video of the TYM with the tiller attach? From neighbors garden? That mill was awesome cutting the lumber for the raised beds..nice and tall too.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Yeppers...since I don't have any more raised beds I'm gonna do a row of Roma tomatoes in the ground as I mill up the next batch of lumber for the next 10 raised beds...then a fence is going up to keep out deer and keep in chickens

[@JSomerled]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Good plan adding the fence. Will you be cutting your own fence post too..

[@MontyRJones]

You know you should losses that root ball before you plant it?

[@williamweller7428]

🙂🙂

[@Gen_X_Jimmy]

Hey Josh Awesome video but I haven't seen any Blooper Reels lately. Did you quit doing them on purpose?

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

lol....good point...I'm on it

[@williamweller7428]

😍

[@williamweller7428]

😃😃

[@Shane_O.5158]

raised beds have good and bad about them, while it's true soil gardening will give more minerals, you can make a raised bed better than soil by adding compost and rock-mineral, and fish pond water, and it's far better than your average thousand acre strip-mine farmers that take all the goodness out of the soil and leave nothing but sand, which then effectively becomes a in ground bastardised version of hydroponics.

[@patriciasheffield1599]

Is there any way to control ragweed? We have a few areas that just get overrun by it!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Mow it and don't let it seed out

[@notsure7874]

My general methodology is to mow down whatever it is I don't want, then try to get the seeds it dropped to sprout. Let it sprout really good, then kill them all. Then put down a cover crop to choke out any stragglers / newcomers. I use either silage tarps, or a flame weeder in the "die weed die" stage of the process. Be VERY careful if you decide to flame weed, that can get really out of control really fast. It may be illegal in some places, or at some times too. I overhead water before I use it, and make sure any grass clippings / other kindling is raked out, and I keep a sprayer full of water and a good charge in the battery or a water hose is right there ready for action, and pre-pulled out to just beyond the furthest I'm gonna run it. I can't stress that enough, my friend almost lit some woods and an outbuilding on fire flame weeding this year because his hose was just short of reaching where he was, and it was coiled up about 100 feet away too. That was with a handheld too, not even a dragon wagon.

[@padmabhatt1160]

I still believe you should Line the inside of your units before you put soil/manure in it. The boards can breathe through the exposed surface. I feel your refusal to line the boxes as you do Not want to spend time and $ s 🤢Shiva. Bhatt. One of your fans. 🤠

[@davidburdick594]

Hey Stoney Ridge Farmer! Want more bang for your buck for your garden using a tried and true method of sustainability, 3 words, PERMICULTURE FOOD FOREST. Plant in a manner that has the plants taking care of each other through companion planting and plant guilds.

[@williamweller7428]

😇😇

[@kdegraa]

My dream is raised garden beds however I’d have metal sided beds. I’d try to set them up so a tractor can get up to them with it’s bucket. I’ll keep dreaming. I have the land, the tractor, the money but I live 500 km away from it. How sad.

[@ccc822007]

burry some fish heads after you pull your crop up this season and next season you will have a richer soil to plant in. Something else you can do for those planter beds is Ollas pots this will keep your plants watered and lower your water consumption.

[@Dunlap-uj5zl]

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[@Ms.Byrd68]

Only problem with your tomato planting 'technique' is that leaving stems/leaves on the ground invites Powderly Mildew and other 'fungus' problems. If they are 'Undetermined' I'd say you need to STAKE them as well. You also will reduce your harvest by not 'pinching' back the 'suckers'.

[@jackgreen1261]

What happened to the swamp doggy

[@ANDRESARKISSIAN]

Hi. I live in the town of Hempstead Long-island New York. Blue collar neighborhood. Highest taxed because of the schools. No free nothing. No free compost and not allowed to have backyard chickens! But every town/district has free compost and you’re allowed backyard chickens. Can’t complain or the town will flag my address. So sad. Not run by Patriots put it that way. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@davidowen8632]

Why do you do everthing late in the afternoon

[@rickymuth7205]

ware do u get all this 💰.?

[@larryparish5984]

To bad you have to pay for that compost. Our city will deliver a dumptruck load within 10 miles for free & as many loads as you want. Hopefully they don't realize any time soon that they could be selling that stuff 🤣.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Wholly cow! I'd take every load I could get!

[@rickymuth7205]

ware do u get all this 💰?

[@williamweller7428]

Williamjelle

[@watcherofwatchers]

What the heck is going on with this comment section? lol