It’s official: I hate my garden! When you spend as much time gardening as I do, you notice quirks in your garden layout and design that can become annoying over time. Now that summer is over, I will be making major raised bed garden upgrades that are desperately needed as a winter garden project. Come see the vegetable garden upgrades I’m making, and learn from them so you don’t make the raised bed garden mistakes that I made!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 The Problem With My Garden
2:44 Garden Upgrades I’m Making In 2025
4:02 Upgrade Your Raised Garden Beds
6:10 Filling A Raised Garden Bed
7:13 Future Gardening Upgrade Plans
9:27 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 The Problem With My Garden
2:44 Garden Upgrades I'm Making In 2025
4:02 Upgrade Your Raised Garden Beds
6:10 Filling A Raised Garden Bed
7:13 Future Gardening Upgrade Plans
9:27 Adventures With Dale
Well my 6 collard plants I planted in my raised gutter bed was ated by my ducks.i was so upset,cause the hubby was never home to help me plant my turnips and collards and my turnips i in the regular in ground garden and my raised grill bed aren't developing any roots just leaves,in addition to losing all the radishes I planted not developing on top of my im ground garden just under performing this year,so I just seeded my in ground garden with alfalfa and clover as cover crop.oneard and upward and praying for better results next year
If you like double hight try triple 2x8s… you could use the narrow ones you are going to rip out. Its a perfect height for a garden chair, a walker with a seat or a wheelchair…. and thats why I have triple height 2x8s
“Here, summers are a deluge of rain…”
Those of us in the Seattle area… 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Brio, you move your hands like an NPC.
I like it! You always surprise me with your videos, I always check your videos
everyday! Thank you!
I like it! You always surprise me with your videos, I always check your videos
everyday! Thank you! I always get a kick out of Dale, he's great!
I am wanting to change my garden also.
Nice job! Of course your bed frames fit nicely on top of one another – your engineer merit badge would be rescinded if they didn't. 😅. I am scaling down my garden area and am buying one of the Vego raised beds (4' X 8' X 15") to see how they work for me. I am so tired of crawling on the ground to plant. And I get to try out Hugelkultur on a small scale. I'm pretty psyched since moles (and then voles) have been a constant problem for me.
BTW, I'm in southern Maryland and I had an issue with root knot nematodes in one new bed a few years ago (my native soil is sand and gravel) . I planted a specific variety of Mexican marigolds (Tagetes erecta) that targets nematodes and that took care of the problem. Unfortunately they are tall ugly plants. No problems in that bed since.
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Why did you not do a proper job and make them 3 planks high -you don't have to do all of them at once .You are still going to suffer from a backache with the height you have.
I have all my raised beds at 60 cm high and have no trouble filling them as I have cut down trees and hedges over the years and build a new raised just to have somewhere to dump the material .They serve as compost bins.
If you're taking out the perimeter beds, why not put 2 side by side and then take the other two and put them on top. Now you have a wider and taller bed and won't have wasted the beds! God Bless!
lol, bigger raised beds will fix all the problems of smaller raised beds pretend to solve.
2’ High Raised galvanized raised beds were a game changer for me. No weeds and easy to maintain. I filled them using the Hügelkultur method.
You might want to research Caliente Rojo Mustard for your nematode problem. This stuff is even hotter than the Kodiak Mustard which got rid of mine.
Love your ideas brother. Be blessed 😊
Ha-ha! Go, Dale, GO!
My situation is different from yours; I started when I was 60 and I’m not moving again.
I built my raised beds with cinderblocks at two or three high and used the hügelkultur method with old wood to fill up to half or so then soil then different compost media, whatever was cheap but good. I mixed in sawdust in potato beds. I used cinderblocks to avoid termites here in northwest Louisiana.
Initially, they were cheap (at $1.39 each) but they’ve increased like everything else. The initial expense is more than wood but they last almost forever. It took six years to get all of them done and I’m not adding more, well, probably not.
Now, at eight years, most perennials, like herbs, are established and producing better each year; I allow reseeding for more. The mint escaped into the pathways and the smell is the best thing ever. The vegetables are easier to work, too, especially in the Fall. Everything in a bed is above the flooding in the Winter and Spring rains.
On another note, my fruit trees are abundant in a few fruit trees; this year there was thirty pounds (exactly) of figs from one Celeste; twenty pounds each of peaches and pears and several pounds of blueberries. I’m not sure what I’ll do when the apples, pecans, plums, grapes, Muscadine, etc. start producing. Eat happily, I suppose.
Yes, I’m patient and wait with expectation.
As an older gardener I've just. now learned the benefits of raised beds. That was a bunch of work & an amazing job that you did!
Thanks for sharing
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I do all of my gardening in the fall and winter months in SW Florida zone 11a. I can't deal with the heat and mosquitoes from May through September. My herb garden is under my carport, and I just maintain that during the summer months. I'm looking forward to seeing the changes you make.
get rid of the beds there a waste of time and money. between insects , moles etc eastern carolina soil is trash. unless you want to spend a fortune . raised beds suck. by far better way is wicking tubs . and where i am we get no afternoon sea breeze front rain. summer the last 14 yrs is dry drought. quite the difference 90 m inland makes.