5 on the Farm: CHEAP Raised Bed Garden
How to make raised beds out of free wood pallets. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you aren’t using a perforated liner, or something that allows water to drain, you’ll need to, carefully, put holes in your plastic after stapling it to your pallets. Like our 5 on the Farm series? Subscribe to this station!
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So I guess if you want to plant root vegis, just put the shelf on a lower rung? You also avoid gophers with this, I’ll bet. Those are a great idea.
luvintherawlife
November 6, 2011 at 3:57 pm
@ConcernedMushroom Thanks so much. (And love your user name.)
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm
great idea! great video! and i LOVED your t-shirt!
ConcernedMushroom
November 6, 2011 at 4:29 pm
@warchild1976 We explained that in the text overlayed in the video (see marker 2:20.) We also said that in the description of the video, and in comments above.
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 5:19 pm
one thing not said drain holes gota have drain holes
warchild1976
November 6, 2011 at 5:41 pm
You could totally have a chicken-run under the raised-beds! Wow : )
Helioforge
November 6, 2011 at 5:54 pm
@ThreeEyedTeddyBear Your comment CRACKED me up. Lee is actually an engineer, but you’d never know it to look at him – and that’s just the way he likes it.
He was planning to put up instructions on our website, but pallets vary so much, you kind of have to make it up as you go along. Hopefully, you won’t have trouble finding good supplies!
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm
This video was amazing and I’ll be honest form the shirt I was expecting something less but for that I apologize. I’m cheap as hell when I can be and I low how interesting it looks. If you add on PLEASE make another video doing everything from getting the pallets to filling in the dirt just to see exactly how it’s done and make sure I don’t skip needed steps
ThreeEyedTeddyBear
November 6, 2011 at 6:54 pm
what a great idea and appreciate the audio along with it.
ilelar
November 6, 2011 at 7:05 pm
@MIgardener Thanks!
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 7:33 pm
@4GreenEarth2 You need to either buy a perforated liner, or poke holes in the bottom yourself. We poked holes because we’re thrifty.
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 8:04 pm
@abuelita23xxx Yes. We went deeper for the plants that have deeper root systems. It worked amazingly-well for the vine plants, like cucumbers, melons and squash because they could spread down the sides.
lkbolin
November 6, 2011 at 8:32 pm
awesome idea! thanks for sharing!!
blackraven1515
November 6, 2011 at 8:46 pm
This is amazing! Thanks so much for the idea. I suppose you could even go down a shelf or so to plant taller plants, eh? Gotta take this and run with it. Thanks again.Very creative.
abuelita23xxx
November 6, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Great idea – but I didn’t see any info about drainage.
4GreenEarth2
November 6, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I love this idea! It is just great!
MIgardener
November 6, 2011 at 10:20 pm
great video.
StatenIslandSlim
November 6, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Wow! What a great idea!
gotshaklee
November 6, 2011 at 11:22 pm
@babzc Thanks! We’re very happy with how much easier they are than traditional gardens. It really doesn’t seem like work…
lkbolin
November 7, 2011 at 12:06 am
Our raised beds are doing AMAZINGLY well. In the 4 weeks since we planted, the garden has exploded. In two sections, we used fresh compost. We ran out of the “good stuff” and switched to a combination of soil and old barn compost. There was a crazy difference in growth. Check out the photos on our FB page: facebook.com/pages/Road-to-Simplicity/303189950282
lkbolin
November 7, 2011 at 12:21 am
brilliant! i was just fussing at my husband about how hard it is to garden on these old knees just last week! brilliant , i say again!
babzc
November 7, 2011 at 1:20 am