Urban Homesteading For Beginners // Building Raised Garden Beds
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This all starts with building our cheap raised garden beds...let me explain. We have this dream of starting an urban homestead. That dream is to one day have it expand to own a stretch of land and start a big homestead and be self reliant. But that takes time and we have come to the realization that we have to start small with some simple DIY raised garden beds made from cedar fence posts. So I guess this is the beginning of our small and modest backyard urban homestead.
Enjoy friends!
0:00 Intro
0:55 Starting Simple
2:10 How we built our raised beds
3:15 Step one
3:43 Step two
4:05 Step three
4:58 Step four
5:52 Results
6:09 Dressing it up
6:22 One step closer
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I LOVE this video seeing our family work together to slowly, but surely step by step making our dreams happen! I love our family ❤
Amen and well said my dear! This was such a joy to put together. I love our family so so much! ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah my man doing raised beds
Going to be fun! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment friend.
Castleberry Farm
We might have to make that a sign for the garden...I like the way you think and the way that sounds! Thanks for watching friend.
Keep on keepin on brother. Best of luck with the garden!
I will if you will. It’s going to be a fun journey ahead. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment.
This is awesome having the entire family involved and engaged. Raised beds look great, the bark is a nice touch. Now you just need a ton of dirt to fill them with! I just put up chicken wire around my garden, not sharing with rabbits any longer! Green beans, onions, carrots, tomatoes, and hopefully some watermelon I'll be "attempting" to harvest this year. Wishing your family a bountiful harvest 🍑🍅
Thank you very much. It was a fun project to work on with everyone. We are very happy with how it turned out. Some sort of protection will be needed for the future for sure. I’ll have to go back and take a look at your catalog of videos to see if you made one on your garden. That sounds like the making of a great harvest! We are just hoping for anything at this point. One thing I know for sure…we can’t grow dirt! Sooo…yeah…lots of work to get some back there. Appreciate the well wishes and the same from our family to yours.
Grew up with a half acre garden in my grandma's backyard. Fresh carrots with a little dirt left on them are dandy 😎 Nice work Paul - bests to the Turf Family!
I remember visiting my Great Aunt in Spruce Pine, NC and watching her walk out to her garden that was about the same size you mentioned. She would pull Zucchini out of it, wash, bread it, and fry it up for me. One of the best meals I had ever had in my life. I can still smell and taste every bit of that and brings me so much joy thinking about it. Thanks for spurring that memory for me! Our best to you and yours. Thanks for taking the time to comment and watch the video as always.
You do it right sir, KOKO Congrats!
We are trying! Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave a comment. It means alot.
I bet the garden smells good with all that cedar. Nice job on setting the whole thing up. Looks like you had lots of help from Turf/Farm/Family. A really fun project you got started there. Best to all you farmers! KOKO
I cannot complain from the smell when cutting that wood to size! Cedar and walnut have always been my favorite to work with. They are such an awesome help to me on projects like this. Another memory made! We appreciate you watching and commenting as always. Our best to you and yours sir!
Good stuff man. I have a video coming on inexpensive beds I just made here. Building a garden area in my backyard as well with my girls and it’s been great. We just planted all of our stuff yesterday. Have peaches and nectarines growing on our trees although I know I need to pull them off first year but the girls like watching them grow. Good stuff!
It’s been really fun and refreshing to do this. Good for the soul. I’ll keep my eye out for that video! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. We ended up planting: Tomatoes, basil, marigolds Bell pepper, jalepeno Green beans, radish, onion Corn, cucumber Strawberries Watermelon, cantaloupe Thyme, cilantro Nasturtium flowers And our peach trees are showing signs of good fruit. Looking forward to seeing g what pops up. Enjoy the time with them and the process. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Great job making those cedar beds. Now start planting😅
Thanks! We have a hard frost coming this weekend so going to have to wait a week or more. Appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment.
Love this - we started a raised vegetable garden last spring/summer - we made plenty of mistakes but you live and learn, hoping this year is better.
Sometimes the best way to learn is to fall flat on your face. You can't get to where you are going without taking a few steps and stumbles along the way. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. We really appreciate it.
I love the idea of using those Cedar fence boards for your planters. I've wanted To Do this and then use PC v pipe to make a cover for the top for frosty days.
It’s a great affordable option. They are easy to come by and usually in good supply. I like that idea of pvc pipe covers. I will have to run with that. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. It means a lot!
This job takes a lot of effort. you are wonderful .
I for sure put my back into it! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
@@theCastleberry I watched all your videos and felt it
@@ChickenFarm98 haha thanks for doing that. I have a healthy amount of advil and ice packs at the ready at all times.
Great work sir! I built a few similar beds myself this year.
Thanks buddy! It was a fun project to work on. Thanks for watching and dropping a comment. I hope you’re well.
Looks good! Good luck with that! 😊
Thank you! It’s going to be fun. Appreciate you watching.
Awesome video!
Appreciate it! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Love this, great video!
Glad you enjoyed friend. Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave a comment. I really appreciate it.
It looks good! Lots of room for planting activities! I'd be curious how the boxes hold up over time since those sides are thinner than what I am used to seeing. Do you plan on cutting out the fabric in the middle of the boxes so the roots can grow deeper into your native soil or are you not worried about that?
Thank you very much sir! That makes two of us on the boxes. My gut tells me in a couple of years we might have to revisit this. But time will tell. No plans to cut out the middle of the boxes. I choose this depth so the plants will have plenty of room to establish and gather what they need from amending the soil. That is the plan anyways. We will just have to get started and see how it goes. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. It really means alot.
Tegridy
How is that pronounced…? Thanks for watching!
Hi, roughly how much was the cedar planks and did you get them from a big box store? Thanks
Great question. I got them from a local lumber yard for $2.25 a piece.
Warning... "Dad joke" ahead.... I'd suggest adding some soil to the boxes before you start planting.
Turf boss and I literally had a good hard laugh at this one! Totally my style of humor. Thanks for that and taking the time to watch.