How to Dig Your First Earth Bed Vegetable Garden & A Cherry Tomato Hedge: All the Steps in Detail!
How to Dig Your First Earth Bed Vegetable Garden & A Cherry Tomato Hedge: All the Steps in Detail!
It takes you through all the steps to build your first earth bed vegetable garden. I cover size, fertilizing, peat moss, mounding, general principles and show you some planting ideas. I also turn my space into a cherry tomato hedge. You can use this type of garden as you wish!
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Thank you for the awesome videos. Over the past months I have learnt everything I know today about gardening from your videos. This is my first time planting anything. I started my seeds indoors. Peppers, tomatoes, jute leaf & water leaf
After this process would I still need to add double shredded wood at the top?
what is wrong with 10 10 10
Thanks for sharing. I did my bed the same as your. My tomatoes are growing crazy wasn’t planning on growing them as a hedge but they grew that way but I think I will trellis them in the way that you did I believe that will work out great
Hi Gary, I liked learning about the trellising method you are using for the tomatoes in that one bed. QUESTION: were the tomatoes all indeterminate or determinant? The reason I ask is because in my short 2 years of experience any cherry, pear or grape tomatoes were all indeterminate so I will be watching how you grow these tomatoes on so short of a trellis.
Live in upstate New York here it’s crazy
Please cut down on how many times you ask us to subscribe to your channel. We are subscribed.
Thanks to you I wouldn’t have started my first experience of growing any vegetables, I have the transplants outside some not very happy and more happier ones. My question is the soil is hard and rough to the touch but not dry
HD and Lowes always has Garden soil on super sale Memorial day weekend every year. Also sometimes 4th and Labor day Weekends. 5 bags for $10 .
Great video. Very very informative. Thanks for uploading.
So once I dig I don’t have put the dirt back in just put soil and not to deep dig?
hi Gary! Love your channel, have you tried Brads atomic grape, black cherry or the black prince tomatoes? Sooo good! I’m trying out a few wild boar farms tomatoes this year and am soooo excited to try them! Anything you’re most excited for?
I’d recommend no till for new beds. It’s easier and doesn’t scar the Earth. Or, do raised beds for numerous reasons. This doesn’t seem like the route to advise.
Could you have avoided all this expenditure if you did a soil PH test?
Gary, what type of grass did you have growing? I have bermuda grass. Any remaining stray root will evolve into a full blown lawn.
Do I absolutely need to use fertilizer?
Thank you for the step-by-step! Very useful stuff 😀
I don’t know what you do for a living but it’s obvious that you’re one of Americas finest, a farmer.
Hey mate, your videos have finally convinced me to create my own homestead here in Australia. Let me know what you think.
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Oh my goodness!!!… all these tomatoes! 😋
Huge Cherry tomatoes Hedge for sure!
Red currant
World’s smallest
Yellow pear
Pink cherry
White cherry
Red pear
Early cascade
Riesentraube
Sweetie
Chocolate cherry
Sugar lump
Tommy Toe
Matt’s Wild
I planted my garden on the side of a hill because its the area of my yard gets most sun after seeding it we had heavy rains washed my seeds everywhere now i have a forest of tomitillos, tomatoes, and peppers.
@The Rusted Garden – would you try coconut coir? Peat moss is easy but we need our peat bogs desperately and I like scotch so…. 😀 I’ve found that one large brick (like kempf coir) makes about as much as one of those peat moss bales for $10-$12 dollars per brick. Sustainable is attainable!!! Thank you so much for your channel and for the awesome seeds!!!!
I can plant immediately after digging? Compost & all?
Nice tomato bed.
In a word….. WOW! Can’t wait to see those fully grown!! 🙂
Ty I’m excited I’m gonna start a little vegetable garden be my first time being out work with virus going on in bored
Will you put down a mulch around those tomato plants?
Thanks men.
Do you mean we do not need to water the center, just fill the trenches with water?
what is the best treatment for tomatoes cabbage squash plants
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I just came by this channel and i love it
which zone you in Gary?
Love the details, however how do you control the ground gophers from chewing up your planters and killing your plants, I live out in Riverside CA, and we have some agressive gophers that love to eat up all your hard work. Just wondering what kind of advice I could get from you Sir. I have tried some gopher products, but no luck. Thanks again for all your detailed videos, your channel was the inspiration that made me and my 4 young sons want to go out and start a garden in our back yard. We sit around watching your videos and decide what we want to grow, So far we have a few pepper plants , tomato, cilantro, zuchinni, and cucumbers going. Thanks again, and any help with my gophers would be very helpfull.
Hi Gary! I have a question. I am starting my earth garden this weekend. I’m getting it fenced in because last year I tried to plant tomatoes but the deer got to them before I could 🙂 anyway, I noticed that you didn’t use cardboard or anything to prevent weeds like you did in the video when you were preparing the garden for your son. is cardboard only used on raised bed or should I still use them for an earth bed garden? thank you for your time and your very informative videos.
If you need more water , plant inside the valley ,not the top of the mound because gravity takes water down to the lower areas obviously
Brilliant step-by-step Gary! Very helpful video. Thanks.
Hi Gary. Have you found a way to control downy meldew in cucumbers. I. Get it every year here in Denmark.
Can you plant tomatoes there next year or will you have to rotate your crops?
GOOD VIDEO,EXCELLENT INFO AND HARD WORK!!!!! YOU’VE GOT ONE HELL OF A GARDEN THERE!!!!! WHAT DO YOU DO WITH EVERYTHING WHEN IT STARTS TO RIPEN????? YOU’VE GOT A LOT OF PRODUCE THERE!!!!! EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD!!!!!
90F this early on! Crikey!
Great video! I want to do more inground gardening next yr. Im testing it this yr with a few tomato and pepper plants to see how it goes. The squirrels in my area are crazy. Thanks for the video.
Where’s the dog
Completely wrong, you should look into no dig/till systems, it’ll be easier, more successful, and much fewer weeds. You’ve completely destroyed the soil food web. Leave the grass down and just build the bed on top much better for the garden and the planet.
Peat moss can acidify your soil. Which generally most plants thrive in slightly acidic soil!
Using peat will lower PH?
Thanks so much. Very easy to follow through.
Nice video! Keeping it simple. Thanks for sharing!
Always enjoy your videos and love to see how beautifully those tomatoes came right back after some tlc.
Gary i would like to know where U sourced your aluminum metal tubs for raised bed growing?
Very helpful video. Thank you😊