Raised Beds Gardening.

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Vegetables being grown in our backyard. These two boxes are approximately 4′ x 8′ made out of cheap studs from Home Depot. The video is shaky because it was filmed with a point and shoot digital. Not the best, but wanted to share how my wife and I are saving money.

Given away and delivered to my driveway for the low price of {video_description}.00 (got to love craigslist adds). This wonderful stuff will do wonders for my garden both as a cover and as a nutrient rich source of plant food. I will compost half of it and use the rest on top of my raised beds.

Describing how I made a raised bed bean garden. I used an old wood shelf, chicken wire and cane fishing poles. Easy construction. Then just add beans and soil. In this one I’m growing white half runner green beans so that they will vine up the trellises. Also updating on my container gardening. Tomatoes, squash, peppers, cucumbers. Just wanted to share this idea with folks who are making their own gardens to help survive in the midst of this economic crisis. Food storage is a must these days and with prices going higher, it’s a good idea to garden this year.

This is a summary slideshow showing the various stages of building my raised bed garden out of cedar fence posts and 2×4′s screwed together to form a 4×4 used as support posts. I’m pleased with the overall result however i forgot to take drainage into account. If i had to do this again i would have done this out of cinder blocks. First i would level the ground and place flat concrete tiles 16″x16″x4″ (or poured a foundation) leaving about 3″ or 4″ between them to fill with rocks for drainage. Then I’d mortar the cinder blocks together probably going 3 levels high. I’d then fill the first 4-8″ of the bed with more rocks for drainage. Lay a screen of some sort on top of the rocks then add your soil. You could stocco, or something similar, the side walls if you wanted and lay down blocks on the tope level to create a ledge to sit on. I haven’t done any of this yet so it’s all “in Theory” but i think it create a longer lasting and stronger raised bed without increasing the cost too much if any.

John from www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip to the 2012 Chicago Flower and Garden Show. In this episode, you will see some of John’s favorite display gardens that have to do with edible landcaping and vegetable gardening at home. In addition, John will share some of his favorite exhibitors at the garden show that offers you products so you can grow food at home. After watching this episode you will be sure to learn a few things about growing food that you didn’t already know.

John from www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you how he transplants starts that are in peat pots into his raised bed garden. In this episode you will learn John’s method for transplanting that has gotten him a high success rate when planting vegetable starts in his square foot raised bed garden. After watching this episode, you will learn about the two ways he adds beneficial microbes when transplanting to encourage healthy root growth and explosive yields.

John from www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip to the Big Lots to share with you some inexpensive items that will allow you to grow more food at home. In this episode, John will share some of the items that he feels can be valuable at the Big Lots including a Raised Bed Cover for , a Green House for , a Seed Starting Tray for and so much more.

Learn to build a 4 x 8-foot raised bed. The construction will take just a few hours. Customize the bed to your desired size.

Making a little remodeling with flowers to attract bees. And transplanting asparagus

I have been only been growing broccoli from seed for about a year but this technique works well for the novice. First, start your seeds in a soil box with your own compost and worm castings, water each morning, and keep indoors until the seeds have sprouted. Plant 50 seeds or more to be sure you will have some great genetic uniqueness. Then take the box outside and be sure there is plenty of morning sun so the broccoli has energy to grow. After the sprouts have taken off a few inches they are ready to be transplanted into gallon containers. Second, transplant the 2″ broccoli sprouts into the gallon containers, be gentile not to disrupt the roots and try doing it in the dark or late afternoon so the plant has time to recover before the next day’s full sun. You can grow the broccoli to maturity in these gallon containers but if you want sustainable giant broccoli that you can harvest every day I suggest waiting until these plants are around 6″ and then transplant into large raised beds that are 12″ or taller. Third, transplant into raised beds, water each morning, and keep adding your own organic compost as fertilizer for the broccoli. Keep the cauliflower larva (green looking worms) off the plant by picking them off daily and keeping the white moths at bay. Fourth, eat daily and enjoy!