[Revealed] The Secret to Filling Your Raised Garden Bed Without Breaking the Bank!

[@mightymouse2893]

I run a tree service, I fill the bulk (bottom 2/3) with wood chips, then start my mix.

[@sarahmascara]

The color of the raised bed with the black bead of paint running over the rim is elegant and beautiful. Great looking product.

[@skgreenhouse]

Thank you Sarah! I appreciate your feedback 😊

[@mmsanrio]

Isn’t that a protective edge?

[@skgreenhouse]

The black bead is actually a protective vinyl trim 😀

[@solsticesummer982]

Ordered mine on your premiere night. CANT WAIT!! I have 2 lots beside my house I bought, and am clearing. Lots of wood. Leaves… not so much right now. Maybe some. Cardboard, yes! Thank you for the tutorial video!! I’m watching the shipping countdown. ☺️🐝🌿🌸💕

[@Mom2MrBabyHaikin]

What do they cost?

[@jasonbrennan9186]

Great summary! Inspires me on my raised bed garden journey. It was great to meet you at S&K today and thank you Justin for helping us plan shrubs in our Crape Myrtle bed. We’ll be back. Personal service like it’s supposed to be. Keep up the great work!

[@mmsanrio]

I saw a tickety-tokety last Spring saying to fill w/ recycling plastics. Did it for a few weeks for my sunflowers. Ended up transplanting them out of the pots w/ recyclables & it was ridiculous to take the junk back out. So I don’t recommend. She said she had owned a landscaping business & did that at people’s homes to make the pots lighter & use less soil. 😅

[@RealBradMiller]

I would have gladly dropped the refuse back off at her home or business and would have dared her to contact me again. 🤗🥂 😂

[@susantitus6133]

I read about that tip a few weeks ago. I've been repotting my plants into bigger pots with empty plastic bottles on the bottom. The pots are so much lighter and use less soil.

[@mmsanrio]

@@susantitus6133 When I transplanted out of the recycling, I didn’t care for all the roots growing on the plastic w/o soil around them. I had assumed the plastic would act like a rock, but there were too many air gaps.

[@Usernameblahblahnblah]

Super excited for you! Great idea!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@Mom2MrBabyHaikin]

Super helpful!

[@persistentone3448]

The problem I have had with wholesaler "topsoil" products is that they advertise these to be sandy loam, but what you end up getting often ends up being an extremely clay-heavy clay loam. It is hard as a rock as soon as it settles and dries. The only method that has worked for me is to use a known clay loam and mix it with even parts of gritty sand and compost or wholesale nitrolized soil amendment. That gives me a sandy loam (50% sand + 50% clay loam) amended by an organic soil. The result has more than 20% clay and holds minerals well, but the sand and the organic material allow it to remain friable.

[@mmsanrio]

So excited for you & your little team! Did you send them off to Laura yet? 🤓

[@mmsanrio]

Also…SHARK TANK!? 😋

[@EastRiverHomestead]

I like your raised bed. I hear people complain about the insane amount of time and effort to put the other brand together when actually, it's a clique brand ... like Range Rovers. I make my own beds, but yours are prettier. Would you be willing to send one to be reviewed by my friend? Her channel is, 'My Great Challenge.'

[@Craftgarden2024]

204k...Very nice work...I have subs

[@MariMari-vq8hl]

Wow- looks easy to assemble even for me! Love the green color. Also, was the “first layer” the cardboard? I thought I saw pine needles as the first layer or was it just basically the ground? 😅

[@Flora-Interior]

Great 😊

[@Mom2MrBabyHaikin]

I need these, but with bottom layer, because our rental has cement & they wouldn't let me ruin it...

[@elainewashington3004]

Wish you could ship these to Canada without it costing a fortune to cross the border!

[@KarenLee-ms2th]

Will you be making them in white on the outside in the future ? With the black top strip, that's what im holding out for. 👍

[@devvildogg1775]

How do you get rid of termites? I did a Hugelculter and put cardboard, logs and sticks, leaves, and 50 lbs of moldy wood pellets. Then soil. After I planted 2 weeks later I was transplanting some stuff and thousands of termites were crawling all through it. I had to throw it all out. 4 raised beds. Gone. But now I find them in the soil and in other potted plants and grow bags. Ho can I get rid of them without getting rid of everything?

[@michelleSanders-u8f]

Do you recommend putting the gopher wire/liner on bottom first? Is this really necessary?

[@epoulos108]

Do you have any videos on butterfly bushes? Or roses?

[@cherholo]

what is the height of the bed and what are you using that may be toxic

[@stevie1748]

I have seen different home steaders do this. My concern is that all that carbon (LOGS) will be pulling a lot of nitrogen out of the soil to break that carbon down into compost. So I would expect the result would be low nitrogen available to plants?

[@calista1280]

Which is replenished by the leaves, manure and soil...

[@stevie1748]

@@calista1280 Which also needs nitrogen to break down. I believe this is why we add bark mulch to the top of the soil. If the pine bark (Carbon) were mixed in the soil it would rob nitrogen as it breaks down. If I added already composted leaves or pre-composted bark, it is already broken down (Carbon) and no need to Steal Nitrogen.

[@mmsanrio]

Just saw a video recently from Epic …(don’t want to mention other names) who said not to use logs. It causes too much sinking later on? I don’t think Laura has her strawberries growing in the large silver planters anymore…wonder why. All I have is the PVC & composite planters. Definitely using cardboard this year. Started it on the side of the house to grow wildflowers see how things grow. Unless that’s a bad idea. Haha

[@stevie1748]

@@mmsanrio If you were planting strawberries, raspberries or a tree in there the sinking would become a problem. If you are growing vegetables that are harvested every year the sinking should not be a concern. You can just add more soil/ compost.

[@mmsanrio]

@@stevie1748 oh ok! Thanks! I do plan to ease into growing a few veggies next year. 🤓

[@melissajohnson7836]

Wondering what your thoughts are on terramation😮

[@PhuongTrinhBaBun]

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[@LonestarROB]

Little off-topic. What would you recommend for my situation. North Texas, Evergreen shrub(foundation shrub) , full shade 90% of the time. Drought tolerant and easy to maintain. Looking at Dwarf Euonymus but not sure if it will work. Thanks!

[@thehungryhussey]

Shoot man... I wished I saw this before I got another brand. I'm a tad over 40 and tad overweight and your boy was laboring. I don't think we're far from one another. I'm near High Point.

[@tracyoconnor-mcgraw4952]

Could you use this method if you placed your bed on concrete or pavement ? 🌻

[@calista1280]

Yes, but water will leach thru and stain the concrete or pavement

[@mmsanrio]

If concrete is your only option, you could go w/ a raised planter & place a bin or 2 below to catch the water running thru. I guess I’d just wonder how water logged the bed would be if sitting on pavement. I suppose if you didn’t care about the cement, you could get a planter w/ a bottom & raise it up on bricks 🧱 or on cement blocks. That way it can drain.

[@lythimai868]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jasonprice9823]

An ancient method starting with cardboard?

[@skgreenhouse]

Lol, I kinda added that part. But the cardboard will help prevent weeds and encourage earthworms 😆

[@mmsanrio]

Your cardboard doesn’t have hieroglyphics from The Great Amazonian Era?

[@skgreenhouse]

@@mmsanrio 😂

[@zottehottentot]

So all the plastic tape on the cardboard goes into the ground? Nice...

[@lisamoreland707]

Pool noodles

[@Nocare89]

90%+ of that filling is going to decay into nothing within a few years. So you can fill it with topsoil upfront or pay for a few bags per bed every year and grow through the hassle, every year.

[@Raul28153]

Don't use cardboard or any recycled paper products. Reason is the older paper products from the 70s and 60s is still being recycled and it's got a lot of ungodly nasty stuff in it from lead to dioxin to cadmium, you name it, you will find it in recycled paper products.

[@minikindeer]

Is this method suitable for planting hydrangeas? I want to have several long throughs along the border of our small garden patch filled with hydrangeas and I wonder if I could utilise this to save on filling up with soil alone.

[@Ferdinand-yx5wh]

Is there any way to contact you directly

[@charlieharrison230]

So is it ok to use shredded chips for fill

[@taiholiman961]

I ordered one!!! Can not wait for it to arrive!!!! 🙌🙌🙌

[@skgreenhouse]

Thank you so much!! I know you're going to love it!! 💚

[@LauraFox-eb1vc]

We just put together and filled 6 raised vegetable gardens using this method. But then my husband treated our lawn with Grubex (granular) and some inadvertently landed in our unplanted gardens. Is this dangerous for the vegetables we then planted? Will we ingest poison if we eat our vegetables? Secondly, we topped our planted beds with brown mulch, keeping the stem areas cleared for watering. But now I’m wondering if the dye in the mulch is harmful for our plants and therefore us. I’m just sick with worry that we’re growing food that’s going to hurt us. My husband is not worried in the least. Comments?

[@AngelaGreene1025]

I was just watching and heard you mention Shelby NC and had to GOOGLE you!!!! I am in Kings Mountain and will DEFINITELY be coming by ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@smhmay1973]

Do you have a video concerning tomato pest insects? I am in East Texas and we have a bug down here that has a long snout that it uses to puncture tomatoes. Once bitten, green or ripening fruit, the tomato rots. I know of no control for it. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Love your shows. My Dad was a Tarheel, and boy could he garden / farm.

[@johnhenson9287]

What would be your best hedge for privacy that the deer might not eat? The deer have picked my emarld cedars down to nothing

[@roberta7280]

Off topic. Can we get you to get hoodies for S and K? I wish you great success

[@theking-fl9sq]

Straw top soil..straw top soil layers

[@DanneVolvo]

This wasn't a secret thou...