Raised Bed Garden Tour (our garden REDEMPTION story!)

Published 2018-07-31
Come see our DIY raised bed garden! (aka our garden redemption story!)
Last year we built a unique set of homemade raised garden beds and I get a ton of questions from raised bed gardening enthusiasts every time I post about them! Here are tips for building raised garden beds of your own.

✶ MY FREE RAISED BED GUIDE:
theprairiehomestead.com/raisedbedguide

✶ HOW I POISONED MY GARDEN:
www.theprairiehomestead.com/2016/08/curled-tomato-…

✶ HOW I PREP THE BEDS EACH SPRING:
www.theprairiehomestead.com/2018/05/prepare-raised…

✶ HOMEMADE GARDEN PEST SPRAY RECIPE:
www.theprairiehomestead.com/2015/07/organic-pest-c…

Where I get my seeds: www.rareseeds.com

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All Comments (21)
  • @GreenThumb802
    I do two things for my bindweed problems here in Colorado. First and free is to pour boiling water onto the base of the vine, and anywhere you want it to die. Boiling water will kill just about everything and highly stresses whatever it doesn't take out. The second thing you can try is a mixture of epson salt white vinegar and dish soap, this will unbalance the plant and surrounding soil. It also will dissipate within a couple days so you can still use that area for planting later.
  • For bindweed, we have found that our rabbits love to eat bindweed and if you have a rabbit tractor, you can let them eat the bindweed down. That should weaken the plant significantly and provide free food for a possible meat source. By the looks of your raised bed setup, if you had it fenced around the perimeter with chicken wire and put some brick in front of it to keep the rabbits from digging under, they might be able to be free ranged without getting into your raised beds.
  • If you prune the bottom leaves on your tomatoes you can plant them closer. I plant mine close and make sure I prune consistently and they do very well.
  • @kimuseni
    I like when you said “rather poetic”
  • Jill, I love your laid back style. Found your YouTube site when looking for sourdough starter recipes and am hooked. Your basic sourdough bread recipe is PERFECT! I’ve tried, with marginal success, to make sourdough for several years. I have a loaf rising as I write this. Thank you! Your family is delightful, especially that gentle, horse-sized dog❣️
  • Knowledgable, beautifull smile, cute, down to earth, smart .... rare ... very rare. I whole heartedly enjoy your videos, top quality!
  • Our in ground garden is approx. 100x100 ft. We water it via a drip system, along with the normal rains of SE Oklahoma. We usually grow green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, peppers, and okra. My husband built me a green house so I can start my plants as early as possible. We can as much as we can of the green beans. One year our garden fed like 6 families and we still had enough to take to our local farmers market. I do have one helpful tip for people who don't have grocery stores nearby. Our local grocery store had a sale on 50lb bags of potatoes, so I bought 100 lbs and we canned them. My husband, among others, thought I was nuts, and it's a lot of work. But they turned out great. We just peeled and cut them into chunks (like you would to make mashed potatoes) and canned them in quart jars. I used them in stews and also mixed them with our canned green beans. All you have to do to use them is open the jar, pour out the water, fill the jar up with more water and do that a couple of times.
  • With just a little fence above the raised beds, you should be able to keep some kinds of chickens in the garden area. They will weed for you around the beds and keep slugs and other bugs away.
  • @HomesteadBliss
    I really love that you are making videos now, Jill! Your garden looks great. I am at the point now that I ALWAYS cover all of my brassica's with floating row cover because of the cabbage fly moths. It works really well. XO Andrea
  • @megmcginnis239
    Hello, love your videos. We got compost from a neighbor 4 years ago that had that sprayed hay in it too. It was a sad year in the garden, It has recovered now. An idea on bind weed, my husband Jon researched and found a way to get them without back hoeing the the whole area. It takes time and patience and requires buying that dreaded round-up or similar product. You cut back the weed to the ground, insert the remaining stem into a cottage cheese type container with a small hole in the lid. The container has the weed killer in it and it feeds it back to the roots. It takes time, patience and diligence, but it worked for us in the corner of our pasture. Just an idea...hope it helps.
  • @delsurf71
    I came back to this video to learn more about your bed design. Thanks for the inspiration.
  • Oh no☹️ what a challenge with poisoned hay😫. My delayed condolences.
    We have great success with wood chips. Some we got free from a local yard waste management location and still others we got from tree cutters who just happened to be working in our area. We found that by adding deep wood chips mulch around our plants, watering is almost non existent!!!
    Don’t feel strange, we’re making 35 raised beds!!!!!👍🏻
  • You can get rid of those weeds in your isle pretty easily, including the Bind Weed. Forget about weed block fabric. Doesn't work very well and it is not natural. Lay down a few layers of cardboard, the key to killing the weeds is put in a bunch of hot manure into the isles. The hotter the better. 6-12" worth at least. Then top with some wood chips. I only use wood chips and manure on my place for the exact issues you had with the hay being contaminated with chemicals. This method will kill any weed, tree, etc. Then the next year you can shovel the beautiful soil out of the isles and into the bed for that season. Just repeat every 6 months and your good to go. The cardboard only needs to be applied the first time. I didn't even bother with it here, but your situation might need that extra boost of coverage. Hope this helps!
  • @dwalsh4027
    We grow in raised beds here in Minnesota. We have 22 raised beds and grow most of the canning vegetables. I think they are truly the way to go
  • Thanks for the full tour, Jill! Having seen them on IG for so long, it's great to see in real life!
  • @ssg8051
    Thank you so much for this tour and all the helpful guides and related articles. Cheers, Ardith
  • To get rid of bindweed (a biannual), you have to expose the whole root before the plant flowers, dry it, and burn it. As long as there are seeds, you will have to repeat this process, which can take several years.