Raised beds, a short video, just click on the link

A look at this seasons growing and also a bit about constructing them and filling them.
A diferrent way to build a raised bed in the garden - YouTube

 

I have never tried raised beds.

 

Each to their own, the idea is to show what is going on and perhaps give newer gardeners a few ideas to mull over.

 

I would like to try them as I struggle to get down to ground level but currently, we don't have the room.

 

My garden in not big, hence the raised beds and growing crops in blocks rather than rows and of course being no dig, a real labour saver for me as I get older, I've just had some fairly major surgery to remove a tumour and with this method of growing, I have been able to continue gardening.

 

Here's an update, I'm still trying to get the hang of solo filming with a movie camera, I will get there, just click on the link and put the sound on if you want to listen to my commentary.
Raised bed growing update - YouTube

 

A more recent update on the raised beds
Out in the garden - YouTube

 

Having done one raised bed ready for planting and as it is now a sweaty zero degrees in the sunshine, I lifted the last of the carrots, weeded and added a bag of farmyard manure and put some fleece on in a vein attempt at warming the soil a bit, got some shallots to go in there in the next few weeks.

 

Things are now beginning to get going despite the weather, click on the link to watch a very short video.
- growing our own organic vegetables by tigerburnie, on Flickr