Perfect Garden Beds Made Simple

Culinary Garden, I love your channel so much, I just had to subscribe!

Just found your channel very back to basics for us people just starting gardening

What a great video! I can't wait to see the lovely haul of veggies etc that you create with them. :D

G'day!
Great video and it's really making me want to pull up some of my beds and start again.
All the best. - Daz.

Congratulations. This is a fabulous tutorial.

i've been blowing the whistle on these useless and expensive contraptions that dont grow a single more vegetable than simple in ground rows.
the initial purchase is just the start of the ongoing cost and problems with made up lofty promises.
how this keeps on getting passed on as "good advice" is beyond me. usually just follow the money of snakeoil salesmanship.

Thanks

Thanks for the inspo. I have a bare patch which is crying out for something just like this but it’s been too daunting to get moving on. You’ve illustrated that Yes It Can Be Done - Just Do It!!
Sent you a small ‘thanks’ as the patreon link didn’t work.
P.S. congrats of the 4 month old 😮 It’ll only get better 😊😉💞

Great video

Perfect timing

Love the video however, I also throw in an ice cream container out of my worm farm and water in worm wee. The logical use of mulching is a key factor

Yay can’t wait to make my bed!!! Also congratulations on your 4 month old, hope you all can get more sleep!!

Would love videos on cost effective arches for things like cucumbers, luffa, passionfruits etc! And cost effective trellisis! Our fence with the neighbors is very low (I can jump over it) and we're wanting to remove the current trees and bushes that are all fire hazards, and replace them with trellisis I can grow beans, peas and tomatoes against.

Watching with my 16mo in NZ this morning. Congrats on your baby and sympathies with the sleep situation. We appreciate the time and effort you are putting into this project 🙏 Can't wait to follow along and let my son think I'm an epic gardener 😅

Love that there are more Aussies doing videos!!

I don’t own a lawn mower anymore but I do have lots of plastic to cover my grаss that’s the same type.

I might save the internets garden beds for next year. In the middle of a lot of garden projects already at the moment 😂
But who knows…. By the end of the month I may still change my mind

Thank you for the video! I like raised beds as they look prettier and keep everything contained and looking nice, so just ignore the negative comment where they are saying it’s bad advice. I’m a professional gardener in Vic and build mine similar to you, but I do a layer of horse manure in the base too. It’s $2 a bag and it is great in a lower level where it has time to mature. I just check with where I buy it that it’s not from somewhere where weeds are sprayed and I try to get it from stalls so that it doesn’t have weeds from the paddock mixed in, but being on a lower level; I never have a problem with weeds anyway. After I make a bed, I water it and then cover with cardboard or paper and I leave it for a couple of months to sink and rest and then top up and plant :) if you have a chance to do it in advance :) if not, you get a chance to top up the soil each time you replant in it anyway :) thanks for your videos :)

Greetings from The States! It is time to get back into gardening, and looking forward to hearing about it from a fellow Aussie! (Family is in ACT on Mom's side)

Given time, these pine sleepers can twist. I'd recommend placing a sleeper offcut on the inside of each corner and screwing through that. I've found that screwing into the end-grain isn't as strong.
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Really great video, thank you!

I remember those waking zombie days (daze!) Thanks for the great video. I love what you're doing to encourage people to grow their own food. It's magic!

I feel like all day every day is that sleep deprived blur, going on a good 8-9months since my youngest has slept more than 20 minutes without me in the room with him. It's left me so behind on sorting out beds or anything else.
Fingers crossed your little one settles to quality sleep soon 🤞

dude, really love your videos!

OMG I laughed out loud and woke up my cats

Thanks

Thank you for some great videos🌱🪴🌞

Can you add vermiculite?

Wow! I thought Bunnings had switched from CCA treated pine to ACQ years ago, but I just checked and they still sell CCA sleepers for gardens.
I normally use the hardwood sleepers anyway but they are quite costly.
Great info and a top video. Oh I really enjoyed the "mallet incident" 😊

For fill , if you dont have all the stuff you did ask a tree guy for wood chips . Generaly they will be free & delivered (waste product to them). Just be carefull as they often want to get rid of a lot more than you need. My next door neighbour helped out there.I also used it to cover the walkways between beds so no mowing down there. Use 3 or 4 layers of cardboard there though to make sure the grass won't come back. Lasts 3 or 4 years with Aussie hardwood chips.
The woodchips I put in my much taller beds has turned into great soil over the last few years but sinks as it degrades & needs to be topped up with compost.

You made me so happy when you said” measured twice, whack once!” my late father used to say that all the time and it made me smile so big!

Where do you get the sleepers from? I don't see them for that price at bunnings etc.

I loved the musical performance mid-video! :D :D :D

We used scrap untreated pine 2x6s to build our low beds, figuring that our climate is so dry they're unlikely to rot anytime soon. I filled the beds with 50/50 on-site dirt and quality vegetable garden soil, plus composted cow manure, and pelleted garden sulphur to reduce the alkalinity. For my 48-inch-tall beds made of medium bulk containers, I did what you did basically and filled to 15 inches from the top with logs, tree branches, grass clippings, and leaves, then added the soil mix. All beds get 2-3 inches of leaf mulch in the summer and (for perennials) 6-10 inches in the winter, when temperatures drop well below zero F.

Filled in the pathways between the beds with cardboard scrap and pine bark nuggets, which does a great job of keeping the fierce Wyoming weeds at bay. I have never tried worm castings, but what I'm doing seems to be attracting lots and lots of earthworms. I wish there was some way to discourage our Wyoming ground squirrels, which are a smaller mountain version of prairie dogs and love to scamper around the garden and thumb their noses at me all summer while sampling the veggies. I'd shoot them, but they're too cute.

I don't know why poeple insist on making gardening so expensive

Good and helpful video,thx.

This video! This is the one that saved me with the simple tip of mulching, and cheap sugar cane mulch! 11/10 great tips! :)

I used corrugated iron beds about 900mm high. Lots of work to fill them but I am infinitely better at weeding them. I can work like a slave moving tonnes of material to fill a raised bed but I can't be bothered to bend over to pull a weed.

thanks mate ,liked subbed and shared, some good tips well presented

Here are two things I have learnt. break up the soil under the bed. Leave enough space to walk between them. These are ptoo close. The width should be so you can reach in to the whole bed, without stepping in or tottering

Thanks for another useful vid

Hi M8, any advice on how thick to go with Pea Straw Mulch? Main issue is trying to reduce weeds already in the soil. Worst case I’ll keep picking them every evening haha

A good tip I learnt from a local permaculture group is to wet the cardboard with plastic stickers/tape, leave it for a bit and then they peel right off. If it dries out before you get to them you struggle again. If it's going to rain, even better, chuck them outside and after the rain, they come right off! Saves a lot of time. I love your videos, thank you!

The development of the 'raised garden bed' is quite a load of crap. Unless there is a flooding or age issue

excellent