How to put in a garden bed complete with trees and shrubs. I show you how I installed mine quickly and easily with great results using some great tips. Learn the basics of planting trees and shrubs and how easy it can be to make your yard beautiful. Learn how to remove grass and turf quickly and easily. Have a beautiful lawn and yard
Planting a river birch and Japanese holly.
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That is a nice looking bed.
The kids are cute 👍
Another method is to flip the grass and let it compost in place and mulch over the top.
Nice work. Your videos are very well done. Keep an eye on that river birch’s roots. They tend to have shallow roots and will compete with the adjacent grass for sunlight and nutrients. Ask me how I know :).
You had a great helper there! Fantastic information as usual.
very nice video, great camera work. loved the driving away and back filmed on a tripod!
thats like cutting cake! my grass will not cut like this. roots are deep and very hard to remove.
The "I was about ready to die" comment 😄😄 6:24 totally understand😁
On one spot in my yard I accidentally spilled a lot of fertilizer so the grass died. About 2 weeks after I decided I wanted to make a new flower bed. Took the grass from that area and put it on my bald spot. It has almost bounced back. Love how your flower bed turned out.
I just cut down my river birch. Messy tree, sucks moisture from lawn. Hate these trees
1:42 did anyone think go on paint the dog lol
Has an update video been made yet??
High quality content!
Extremely helpful video, thank you!!
So far I’ve counted a shovel, a thatch rake, a landscape rake, a golf cart, a box cutter, and a post hole digger. 😂
what a good job, well done to you and your girls they done the most work i am sure they will agree ha ha lovely job it looks so good
Not done with just a shovel.
Looks nice, and good video. What kind of shrubs did you plant? I think I’d like those….
From 40 years experience, I would say the most important factors to consider are choosing the absolute best plants for the space, making sure they are sun and heat tolerant if exposed to afternoon sun, and the spacing plants. Make sure the plants don't crowd themselves after reaching the desired size.
Impressive!
It's so satisfying watching somebody meticulously dig up turf. On the other hand, what a horrible job it actually is haha. Stupidly, I dug up 24m2 of lawn this year during a really dry spell. What an effort!
You got rid of the best part of your topsoil. You should have used mulching right over the grass.
Where can I get that shovel? Brand & type please. Want to get my garden started. Nice vid. Thanks!!!!
Good job, your soil is nice, mine is very hard compacted and full of stones . I'm planing to do a garden bed in my front yard too
What kind of shrubs were the 3 you planted in front of the tree
River birch are the bane of my existence. We bought our house a few years ago and unfortunately inherited 3 giant ones. They drop an insane amount of branches year round. Their roots are very invasive and they destroy driveways and lawns. Do yourself a favor and pull it out while you can and plant something else. I’m telling you, in 5 years you’ll remember this comment when you’re in your back yard cursing that thing. Mine are in huge beds and the roots have gone way past the beds. My dad had one in his backyard that he just cut down because it destroyed his yard.
thank you! i need to do this along side my fence on the one side because moss just love that shady area..
That is the same spade i use every day at work to do what you did in your video. Nice choice of tree, too! Great choice of tree, too!
Jesus if my lawn was that easy to uplift… How did you do it so cleanly?? My grass or infact weed grows spreads across meters.. so to lift it up like that is impossible. But yeah new healthy grass is definitely easier to uplift unlike my weedy lawn 🙁
Awesome job❗
Thank you for sharing.
Classic tree choice, but at 70 feet maturity might dwarf some homes and should have ample space to fully grow.
Great video! Very helpful
Nice looking bed! Seems like a lot of work for the size of that bed. I honestly would have used a SOD cutter. Me, as a contractor I don't have 3 days to just remove the SOD lol. For people with no deadline, this would well. Again, great job. Thanks for sharing.
Kind of alarmed by how shallow the grass roots were, but I guess it helped remove it…
What are the names of the shrubs you planted, very nice?
Cute helpers 👍
The loveliest part of the Video..
The Cute Lil girl
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Thank you for filming from beginning to end. It was very instructive for me.
That little girl is so cute. Nice job.
If you plant original container the plant came in into the ground 1st, move it around a little bit, backfill the container while in the ground the plant goes in much quicker and straighter faster.
👍 definitely a great 'go to' channel for helpful info on so many projects and equipment.
what brand of shovel are you using? I'm using a (wider) Anvil flathead transfer shovel (cheap one from HD) and I'm having such a hard time cutting through the grass.
Great tutorial video for sure!! Are those Merrell shoes?