The Easiest 5 Minute Raised Garden Bed | Planting Sunflowers & Vegetables

The time has come again to plant in our garden. This week we built a super easy and time efficient raised garden bed that could take you only 5 minutes to build! We filled the bed with sunflowers, and then transplanted some of our vegetable starts into our mound garden beds. We also sowed a variety of beans in our hoop house. The garden is really starting to fill up, and we are so close to our final planting day!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Hardening Off Plants & Moving Chicken Tractor
02:00 - 5 Minute Raised Garden Bed
06:08 - Filling The Bed
09:27 - Planting Sunflowers
11:03 - Planting Veggies
16:38 - Prepping The Hoop House For Planting
17:27 - Moving Tires For Planting & Aurora Long Lead
18:56 - Sowing Beans & Cilantro
21:35 - Thanks For Watching!

[@jewels7832]

That raised bed for the sunflowers is cool. I hope they grow. I had some planted till the squirrels found them...ugh! I think Aurora is liking her new dog run 😊

[@AGlimpseOfAlaska]

Thank you! Aurora indeed has been enjoying being outdoors more. Odd enough, we haven’t seen a squirrel here since probably June of last year. Weird with all the forest around us!

[@jewels7832]

@@AGlimpseOfAlaska Aurora is doing her job! Lol the squirrels know she is there 🤣

[@sydneymarkgaskon5426]

Good start I suggest you raise the top of your rain gauge above top of post as the rain will deflect of the post and falsely fill the gauge

[@carolwhisenhunt7504]

You guys are great. You're doing a great job. I can't wait to see what your garden produces. You are learning along the way. You'll get better and better. Keep up the good work.

[@thesun-N-moon8885]

I love that you kids go with what YOU want and are willing to go outside of the normal “Alaskan life” … I hope to be around (kinda older) to watch you guys build a beautiful homestead… Sending you lots of positive vibes and energy!! Those sunflowers are gonna soak up lots of water. 😂 Hopefully the next time you place some cardboard under your beds to stop the weeds…

[@ediekudlik1943]

Garden is coming along chickens are getting bigger and l have to say you guys work well together❤❤

[@debbiepowell8172]

You guys are doing great getting your garden going. I hope it yields lots of good veggies.

[@denisewiebrimmer454]

It's best to plant corn in a block, close together so when the wind blows then they don't bend also it helps with fertility of the corn. Just a heads up

[@patricksmith3316]

I really like that garden block idea. I've never seen it before.

[@user-pv4ld1je5x]

Wow, the chicken s are get big. That's good. The garden is very nice. Take care. ❤

[@elizabethogrady5893]

What ye guys need to build next is a vegetable washing station..so that way you will have it ready when it's time to harvest everything...love your channel love to see how ye work well together thrive three the season

[@37julie37]

Morning, Everything looks wonderful,you’ve done a great job with your garden. The good news about larger weeds is they are much easier to pull up :) so nice to see Aurora. Thanks for another great video. Happy Saturday 😊

[@AGlimpseOfAlaska]

Thank you! All the weeds have since grown back and multiplied since we filmed the video 🙁 It’s a never ending battle! See you next week. Happy Sunday! ☀️

[@37julie37]

Thank you:)

[@gmdelatorre3759]

Great job! I hope your garden is fruitful... GM

[@cathrino]

I agree with you about the celery. 😂 I can handle it in stews and soups, but if it's not in it that's fine too. 😊

[@jennywagner2448]

great job per usual - looking forward to seeing it all grow! ♥

[@charlenegrady8781]

That raised bed is awesome. I have nice beds and they didn’t go together as fast as yours. Love it. Your garden is looking. Good job making your own soil. It really does help. I also add peat moss to the soil to hold the water in. Just a thought. Good luck. Have a great week. See you next weekend✌️🇺🇸❤️❤️

[@leannekenyoung]

Celery is great dehydrated that way it also doesn’t take up a lot of room but adds nutrients to soups and stews and then you have it on hand when you want it. Or you can blanch and freeze it. Good luck with the corn and hopefully you will get some harvest from it. Try to plant it together in blocks so it won’t blow over.

[@annregan5330]

Hey there always look forward to your videos you two work so well together and everything is coming a long nicely take care 👍👍👋🇬🇧

[@AGlimpseOfAlaska]

Thank you 😊

[@RobinJones-ow9oz]

Great job

[@patriciamontague6035]

What a garden hi from Colorado Springs 😀

[@pambarab5506]

Looking good! Can't wait to see how the garden grows over the summer. I don't like the crunch of celery or onions, so I dehydrate them and grind into powder or just juice them for soups etc...

[@staceybert1975]

Grow more because you can make soup base with it in canning or if you have a freeze dryer and make a celery salt with it. Just a suggestion.

[@ediekudlik1943]

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[@staceybert1975]

If you are growing corn, try the three sisters' method

[@karenschrock8074]

That garden bed is a great idea. I am in the Sarasota area of Florida. What part are you from? It's already hot as heck her. Yuck

[@johnhuff393]

They're in Alaska.

[@missymunro9071]

@@johnhuff393but they moved from Florida to Alaska.

[@johnhuff393]

@@missymunro9071 you are correct.

[@Forest_Actual]

You could have shaved off 1 minute by handing the blocks OVER the fence! LOL

[@juliejanzen819]

Looks like you need some hand tools.

[@StephenShreds]

Man buy or build your selves some saw horses. save your back.

[@erikabritton5341]

@erikabritton5341 You guys did a great job planting out. Thanks for taking us along! Watching you guys first plant makes me want to start another garden!

[@myralewis1714]

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