Things You Can BURY in a Raised Garden Bed
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- In this video, I show you all the things you can bury in a raised garden bed and I explain why burying organic matter in the garden is good to do!
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"Now that it's winter" he says in t-shirt and shorts. I enjoy this channel, but have a slightly different experience here in Canada. :)
Pretty cold here in N Scotland in winter (although we’ve just had a heatwave). So how long would it take to decompose in a colder climate?
Middle of the day in Brisbane is perfect weather through winter. Houses are generally cold at night as they’re built for the awful hot, humid summers
Rocky Mountain House Alberta here. Cool and windy day here. Hit probably 20 C. Three hard frosts already. I have to cover my stuff in the greenhouse too. Gonna be a bad winter. I'm afraid already.
@@NordeggSonya I'm over in Ontario. Yeah, I feel like it may be a rough winter coming.
Next vid: "A dingo came and tried to dig out the chicken I buried. Now let's see what happens when you bury a dingo in your raised garden"
That made me laugh out loud!
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This is genuinely how I want to be buried. No coffin, no embalming, no cemetery. Just on my own land in the dirt.
Every time I work in the garden I feel like I’m burying my problems. Wether that benefits the plants not sure. Helps me out though.
That's beautiful 😊🌿
Plants grow well in sh*t, so it should help them! ;)
Glad I found y'all ☺️✨🙏🏼
@@zanewalsh1812 Welcome. 😊
@@neverlostforwords thanks 🌄
I wish I listened to my Father when i was younger, he grew most of our food and now i live on youtube trying to learn what my father tried to teach me
Exactly this
Mark makes a good YT dad for gardening.
The microbial and soil life is so amazing at recycling all forms of decaying matter. All those nutrients are now back in the ground where they can benefit the growth of your plants. Excellent video Mark.
Thanks Tony! BTW, I haven't seen your latest video yet but looking forward to watching in soon when I have a break 👍
“I’m glad you’re doing because you have gloves on.”
Immediately proceeds to dig and handle with his bare hands at the sight of a chicken carcass.
It was a duck he went after with bare hands and it had been in the ground 10 months compared to the chicken he had just recently put it the other bed. And either way just wash your hands.
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what could that chicken do, peck him?
@@andersenzheng LOL
I think he was ironic. Another example is that the boy "complains" about the smell but the veteran doesn't care. :)
The most impressive part of this video is where you managed to get the boys to help around the garden.
I loved him jumping out of raised bed🤗
If you raise them from the time they can toddle around, helping out...
@@earthkeepinggreen7763 That was great.
Afternoon Mark! Ive recommended your other raised bed filling video's to so many people,
Weve recently moved and filled 2 large garden beds, lots of logs, goat poo, chook and quail poo, leaves, grass clippings, cardboard boxes, mulch, weeds, plant trimmings, waited 6 weeks and only needed 2 bags of potting mix to top it up
You are a great man and living the way we should all live.
One Mark making dad jokes is fine but oh no if this world didn't drive me nuts were we all living like him...
If only we could
Very surprising how quickly and completely the duck decomposed and a good reason to get rid of the coffin/cremation industries!
Awesome to see the young blood getting their hands dirty too!
with better protection gears too. wear a glove, it does not damage one's macho. you never know if your soil has broken glass or rusty nails in it.
@@andersenzheng Well, you do if you built up the soil yourself. But if you're gardening in doubtful soil you have a point.
I bury fish and fish guts. I occasionally bury crab shells when someone has a boil and donate the remains. I don't even use lime over it. Never had a problem yet.
Some days when I wake up for work, i head out to my garden and I get a notification that you've uploaded. Absolutely brightens my day and helps me EVERY time. Thank you for all of you and your families hard work Mark!
I thought that becasue I buried my pets in my yard I could not grow anything back there. Well I have been educated today.
I like to bury the family pets around trees as kind of a living memorial with a rock cairn or marker of some kind at the base. Non-family pets get buried wherever I think the soil needs improvement. Plants grow great out decomposition.
One of my neighbors used to use the death of a barn cat as a good excuse to plant a new rose bush. She’d drop the cat down the hole, put a little dirt over it, and the the bush on top.
My mother in law has a peach tree around which all the family pets have been buried over the years.
We still haven't had a single peach from it... the deer keep eating them before they're even halfway grown.
"Normally I'd wait 12 months to dig up an animal..... Actually, normally I wouldn't dig up an animal." Brilliant sense of humor, good sir.
Great video! I bury egg shells and banana peels in my beds. I also tried to make a homemade compost bin with kitchen scraps but everything started to grow in the compost bucket. It was beautiful. Be blessed! 💜💜💜
Ha! I always had a lot of avocado pits sprouting in the compost until I started giving them to a woman who does natural dyeing. Now it's just the dates and some stone fruits. Years ago I let my neighbor use my compost bin , and her potato peelings were so thick that I got a couple of free potato plants from her.
I don't know if I missed it, but whenever I bury an animal, I cover in a shovel full of fresh wood ash. Then bury it. For me, it helps with the odors.
See i would have never even thought about doing that to my mother in law that is not nice but on the other hand politicians come to mind at this point lol but then nothing would grow for years in there 😁
You'd poison the soil if you buried a politician.
@@BellefromOz yep you are so right there lol
My 1st bed was just good soil in a mound on top of my crappy soil surrounded by football sized field stones. It was about 3' wide by 6' long and when I was all done and stepped back to admire my work it looked an awful lot like a freshly covered grave. It's been several years of growing great tomatoes in that bed. I switched it out this year for a 2 x 9 x 14" Birdie's bed and it looks less like a grave now.
@@judycee9263 i hope you do good with your beds there i am starting out with one birdie bed the larger sized one
did you know that all that hot air coming from politicians is what causes global warming? lol
Hey Mark, very interesting video. I have done that many times. I have even put our pets in the garden. I know that sounds bad for some people but I don't see anything wrong with it. I feel that way you get to still spend time with them as you garden and they are helping you grow more food.
lt really used to be the norm, we had several shoebox funerals when I was a child. It's a part of life, and as you say, they are still with you.
My parents have always buried our dead pets in the garden, usually in the flower borders & with a suitable plant on top, eg a new fruit tree for my cat who loved to climb the pear tree. I've continued that with our pets, though I've a much smaller garden so luckily we've not had to bury anything larger than a cat yet.
I'd feel bad having a pet disposed of anywhere other than their home.
Makes me feel better to know I can keep my loved fur babies and not so loved spoiled bits and scraps close and will make my enjoyment and peace from my land that much more.
I put mine under a nice tree so it feeds the tree but I have a nice kind of marker for where they are and I’m not digging them up or anything
In parts of Africa the soil is very iron poor and is improved by burying tin cans in the soil to rust and add iron. I have also heard of gardeners adding multivitamins tablets to poor soil to improve micronutrients. You are doing great work! I am in the Southern US and I still envy your climate!
Had one of my little Quail pass away the other day. I gave her a proper burial in the garden. Thanks for the video love your tips
When you first showed the hole under the garden bed, I thought the chicken dug itself out ... haha
A zombie chicken... *pitches new show concept to Netflix: "The Squawking Dead"*
All your tips about raised garden beds, home-made compost, hugelkultur and burying stuff actually work. I've got 4 Birdies-style raised garden beds now (installed and started last year) and never saw tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis grow this big and healthy before. A big thanks from Canada for all the excellent gardening tips!
Having a terrible panic attack before work. This pops up to save me. Thank you.
Change your life ASAP. Simple life, like raising animals and cultivate food is simple enough.
@@felipelima9631 wouldn't change brain chemistry, i know you think you're helping, but it doesn't it hurts. please stop, it is not a lifestyle or diet issue
@@felipelima9631 its not a light bulb to Change ASAP
I've been having bad panic attacks this week dude. These videos do help to distract you from the many things swimming in your brain and chest.
Positive vibes your way dude! I hope those idiots at your job leave you alone and you have a great rest of the week!!!🖖
@@Leto617 Internet Friend, I am autist, my son and daughter are too, and we are used to live in city with drugs (medicine). Opioids and other sh1ts. By making our life simple, our autistic brains suffer way less, without medication. We were sedentary, now we are healthy, happy and doing hardwork everyday. I just sharing my experiencie here. I wish someone had done it to me years ago.
Your really good at talking when it comes to explaining what you know best in and around the garden patch bed.. because of that I can say you’d really earned that thumbs up plus didn’t cost me anything thing out of my pocket-but does make tremendously difference to ur channel..👍👍
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Hi, I just found your channel a few weeks ago and I’m loving the content. Keep up the good work!
This guy is a great watch and you'll learn something almost every video!
He's a legend, even by Australians standards.
My grandmother used to have us catch Perch from the local pond to add to her garden rows. The beefsteak tomatoes and corn that she grew were AMAZING!
The real question is..."How much mulch would a gardener mulch if a gardener could mulch wood?"
Love the channel and it has been a real inspiration to my Food focused gardening endeavors.
Cheers
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Months ago, I buried my unfortunate kid goat in my garden bed and its giving life to my cape gooseberry plants.
Hello dear how are you doing over there?
Good thank you.
@@she31992 your welcome dear it's really nice to meet you I'm Tyler from Cleveland Ohio and you dear?
Hey Mark. My brother and I are in Arizona and we love your videos. I wanted to tell you that I have been practicing composting in my small backyard for almost a year now. In my most recent attempt, I decided to do very little to the compost and see what happened. After a month or so, unawares to me, tomato plants and some type of melon or squash plant are growing in the compost pile.
So seeing you add organic matter to soil has taught me some stuff.
I'm going to keep practicing or in other words - "getting into it."
Thanks for what you do.
I swear to you, when they dug up the chook... I leant backwards in my chair away from the monitor because I reckon I could smell it!!! I am a country girl (63) born and bred, that lived in the Hunter Valley in NSW. That smell is imprinted in my memory. 🥴🤮 LOL
Love love love this guy this guy! Always makes me happy to listen to him. He's made me a better gardener, too!
Since my city stopped collecting food waste (because of the pandemic) I’ve been burying it in my yard. I am amazed how fast it decomposes into the soil.
i have been accepting neighbors' kitchen scraps for my worms and compost for about 1 year now. made lots of friends and got a few of them into home gardening even.
@@andersenzheng Well done, Andersen!
I used to have a tiny yard in the city, and dug my scraps into the various garden beds. It's incredibly efficient.
Your humor is refreshing 💖😂well needed too!!!! Missed your videos !!!!
I have chickens, quail and budgies, whenever there is a death they go into the garden beds. Then there is waste fruit from the trees and kitchen scraps. when building new beds I make thin layers of wood chipping, lawn clippings, seed waste (mainly millet hulls), compost, leaves, toilet roll inners, shredded paper, bird poop. I rarely ever put out the green waste bin for garbage collection as most of the green waste is processed onsite. I love Birdies raised beds, they are the best I have ever used.
“Wood chip would.” That look on your face! Lol
Impressive restraint! 😄
Alternative title: How to be a garden archeologist.
Alternative title, 'How to dispose of the wife.' 😂
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Good stuff Mark. If it’s organic, it goes into my garden one way or another…. Buried, Bokashied, biochared, ashed or composted. A garden is a great way to grow great veg and lower your carbon footprint. 👍
I did my first hukelkultur beds this year, thanks to you. I love your lifestyle and philosophy. Thanks for so much great content.
Last year I found 6 dead birds in my yard (a neighbor's cats were the culprits) so I had to bury them. My dog, being a lover of anything dead and smelly, kept wanting to dig them up. So, that's where I built my compost bin, over the pet cemetary.
This year I buried food scraps, old straw, yard waste, etc under ground prior to planting corn. Covered it with cardboard until time to prep the top soil for planting. Corn has shallow roots, but the area is full of worms and retains moisture quite well... this was an area I had used black plastic to smother out weeds/seeds over an extended period. Now it's full of life again, and the corn is thriving.
My soil was terrible starting out so every winter (Canadian winter) I dig into my garden beds and bury a comically large amount of have half finished rotten compost and fresh vegetable scraps into them. By the spring their usually all gone, and by then I will have accumulated a bunch of food scraps from saving over the winter and I then bury most of that in the gardens too once the ground is no longer rock solid. By the time it stops frosting (part way through may) it’s all finished breaking down and my plants seem to deal with it fine.
Mark, I had to move some mulch from where I mulched it a couple months back and it started creating a humus! So I said to my husband, oh, I know what this is. It’s called humus and I learnt about it on Self Sufficient Me. So thank you for bringing educational content to my CZcams feed which is easy to digest. Another Queenslander here who is learning so much from you!
Those are beautiful recycling centers... ...and you can grow food from them between all the burying! 🥰😜
I tend to bury my sadness and worries in my garden. The grounding purifies the energy 💥🌄✅ and all is rebalanced 🕉️
Having just bought a house, this is my first year with the two beds I built. The “premium garden soil” I bought to fill the top halves (I used dried fallen leaves for the bottoms) was quite poor in nutrients and barely has any organic matter at all. This vid will really come in handy since I need to turn the soil into actual premium garden soil.
Love all your vids, Mark! Keep them coming!
Can't wait to finish school so I can get back home and start putting together my garden.
Jegkkon, that's so sweet
Good luck with your garden
Glad to see you up and running. Welcome back, Mark!
We had a bunch of jackrabbit and gopher nesting on our property this past spring. Once they started getting in the garden I started taking care of them. I took your advice from your last video and started burying them around our fruit bushes and trees. They have never looked better.
Always interesting and educational Mark.
Gotta love the nitrogen cycle. Love the sense of humor here, along with all the great info. Please keep more coming. Thank you, all the way from the Green Mountain State.
Love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Great information 👍. Love your videos. Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. 👍😁🥰
I always enjoy your content, it's great to see how much fun you can have in a garden.
I kept my kitchen scraps in a sealed container on the counter (coffee grounds, fruit peels, egg shells, tea bags). When I collected enough I ran it through my blender with some added water then I dumped it into my container garden (small pot) and worked it into the soil.
That was amazing how quickly the duck was processed. Thanks, it was interesting. 🙂
Building a raised garden tomb. Glad the hen's death continues to feed life -now it truly is a Birdie's Bed.
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Birdies bed lol...
Thanks again Mark, you're awesome!!
This guy is so entertaining and i can’t explain why
You are so good at making videos! I love your channel
Amazing, simply amazing
We plan to do raised beds next year so your videos are very helpful to us! Thank you for sharing!
I always enjoy your videos thanks
I'm wearing the 'Self Sufficient Me' Tshirt proudly, and for good reason so it seems.
Love your channel!
Greetz from Holland.
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Love all your videos!
I love your videos and have been learning so much! You've seriously transformed my tomatoes, thank you!~
Your worms are so active and feisty! It's a sharp contrast to what we have in Iowa, in the US. If you dig down and pick up a worm I don't think it'll even notice (until you start to feed it to a salamander like I do, they tend to take note of that)
Ahh the amount of fish scraps , pigeons and other birds buried in ny garden explains why things grow so well
Your videos are therapeutic, Mark 👌🏽👏🏽👍🏽❤️
Very recent subscriber. Absolutely no regrets. You've just got a way of making people smile!
I filled 3 animal watering troughs with bark and leaves after watching one of your vids. Left them to settle before I added my soil and manure mix. They were filled to the top when I planted. Now the level has sunk about 15 to 20 cm. After harvest I will fill up with autumn leaves, mix it in and let settle over the winter before I add more soil mixture in the spring. Thanks for all your informative videos. 👋 from Saskatchewan 🇨🇦
Hello dear how are you doing?
Great video! I’ve been so absorbed with trying to make compost it never occurred to me to bury a lot of the dead plants before adding compost in the fall. Thanks, this should help my garden a lot next season!
One of the first videos I saw was the first video of you showing stuff you dug in your beds. Nice to see an update
Even with my new 15"/38 cm deep Birdies I used this method this spring. I put small branches, leaves and twigs in the bottom 4" and added a couple bags inexpensive topsoil to fill in any dead space, $1/bag. Then used 60% good quality soil / 20% compost / 20% aged sheep manure for the top 10". Added some organic granular fertilizer. Everything is growing well!
Good to see the kids helping out in the garden.
Such great ideas!
Thanks Mark! 💜
I recently realized that I need to produce more compost for my beds. I started adding a lot of the shredded junk mail, let the chickens have a blast and the bin is already in much better shape!
When my Birdies gets here (shipping delays, no surprise) I may have enough for the fill.👍
Good morning Mark! Giving you a big thumbs up 👍to the sky!
Hello dear how are you doing?
Beds are looking great Mark!!!
"-woodchip would."
*ZOOM IN*
Best joke yet, Mark!
Learning to be self sufficient is one of the best lessons of owning a garden.
Great information.
Great content, as always. I've been learning a lot with you mate, so, thanks a lot. Cheers
I so enjoy these, even if I wasnt interested in growing veg they are really good to watch :)
Just buried all my finished pea vines. Thank you for the videos!
Hugelkultur such as branches and logs works well as the timber acts as a water source. The logs and branches become moist quite quickly and the roots somehow find their way to that moisture so plants are constantly watered. The logs and branches last for years. Currently I have two raised beds with hugelkultur in the bottom halves and every plant in those beds thrives. I don't worry about nitrogen leaching and things like that. It is never a problem. I throw in home made compost every few weeks. Many small trees around the perimeter of the property provide plenty of prunings to make compost using the chop-and-drop method (we also have a compost bin for kitchen scraps, leaves, grass, etc). After a few weeks the chopped material under the trees has decayed enough to produce a layer of humus underneath and I use that to improve soil in garden beds where plant growth has stalled.
Great advice ❤
Another good reason to get the recycling out there. Thanks
Now this is truly gardening in tune with nature!!!
Thank you! Beccause of your inspiration I have a raised garden bed with hugelculture. I bury my quails in there, when they died. Never digged them up, but I have a lot of worms in there now.
Awesome video as always!!! Love em!!!!
The best, thanks!
I burried my grandmother at the bottom of a hugleuculture bed last summer, her pension cheques are a great help and all the vegetables are doing fabulous in the bed. She always said she did not want to be cremated and did not want to go in a graveyard all alone far away so this way i get a lil extra money ans visit her dayly, that bed is doing great.
im listening and learning
great video, thanks
Really inspiring, can't wait to try out your ideas
There needs to a be a video where he’s digging, then inadvertently shows us his failed Russell Crowe clones.
Really enjoyed the video. The jokes and puns are awesome 👌
I’m jealous of how rich your soil is
Add some lime on top of animals being buried. Should help keep smell down and other animals away.
Looks like he does that at 8:20
Glad to see you got your kids working out there it's first video I've seen with them helping you
I'm not sure what use baby goats would be?
Thank you!